Broadcast
Live on BBC2 & BBC3 TV
1. Square One
2. Politik
3. Yellow
4. God Put A Smile Upon Your Face
5. Speed Of Sound
6. Low
7. Warning Sign
8. Everything's Not Lost
9. White Shadows
10. The Scientist
11. Till Kingdom Come
12. Don't Panic
13. Clocks
14. Swallowed By The Sea (Incomplete)
15. Can't Get You Out Of My Head
16. In My Place
17. Fix You
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With
that band's apparent inability to write anything other than
vast, undemanding stadium-filling anthems whose message is
"keep your chin up", they might have been formed specifically
for the purpose of performing at this Glastonbury. Deftly
executed, their set is hard to resist. Chris Martin changes
the lyrics of Politik to reflect the inclement weather, and
calls Glastonbury "the best festival in history". As they
play the introduction to Yellow, the crowd seems to exhale
as one: there's a huge, audible sigh, somewhere between relief
and delight. It's the sound of a victory against the elements.
In his intro to Clocks, Martin even manages, perhaps inadvertently,
to reflect the mental state of people who have spent two days
smoking some of Goldie Lookin' Chain's low-grade marijuana.
"This is for my dad. And all the dads in the world. And Gay
Dad. And the guy from My Two Dads. Do you remember My Two
Dads?" You normally have to wait until four in the morning
to hear people wittering on about defunct US sitcoms. |
