Testing.. 1, TWO.
I’m a long way from that Oxfam desk now. Not quite a million miles, but you get the idea. I’m sitting in the Crew Room backstage at the Los Angeles Forum, which for the next two nights, is the home of Coldplay. The shows are sold out, which may well be a sign of things to come!
On my left, is a hand painted drum. There are faces, lips, arms, swirls and stripes.. The rollers, brushes, paint tins and mixing plates are still strewn across the table. I can hear that Coldplay have just arrived for their final run-through rehearsal, before this tour kicks off. It feels as though everyone involved is using every last minute, to make this show as good as it can possibly be.
Oxfam has been given a chance to project www.oxfam.org/coldplay onto one of the huge rotating balls which make up part of the stage show. That will be a sight for these jet-lagged sore eyes!
I’ll be off to meet Oxfam America’s volunteers in a few hours, so I‘d better crack on with getting the stall set up. It’s almost show time.
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Coldplay has invited Oxfam on their mammoth Viva La Vida World Tour. Throughout 2008 the band played huge shows across 3 continents and 18 countries. Oxfam volunteers were there every step of the way, talking to 100,000s of people about how they can take action to overcome poverty. Now in 2010, Coldplay continue this tour with shows across in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico. Oxfam groups around the world will again join the tour, blogging as they go.
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