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| Coldplay Perform New Songs, Thrill Crowd At Lollapalooza Posted: 06 Aug 2011 08:25 AM PDT Muse performed at the other end of the park at the same time, also delivering the goods.
CHICAGO — Playing the first big show in support of his band's upcoming fifth album, Coldplay singer Chris Martin promised a proper rocking time to the massive crowd that gathered to see the group at its first-ever Lollapalooza appearance on Friday night. They needed to bring it too, since they were up against fellow big-show spectacle veterans Muse at the other end of steamy Grant Park and #1 party DJ Girl Talk just around the way in the steamy, nonstop disco party that is Perry's Tent. And after hyping the crowd with pal Jay-Z's "99 Problems" and the fanfare of "Back to the Future," Martin and company did their best over a 90-minute set packed with shout-along hits and several intriguing peeks at their latest anthemic tunes.
Check out all the photos from Lollapalooza as the weekend ramps up in Chicago! The show opened with a combo of new tunes: the crystalline "MX," which segued into "Hurts Like Heaven," a double-time shuffle that fits right into the band's playbook of revved-up emotional anthems. Reeling the audience right in, they followed with a quick jab, their breakout hit "Yellow," which sounded every bit as uplifting as it did when it first made them stars more than a decade ago. After furiously strumming a beat-up acoustic guitar for the first two tunes, a beaming Martin bounded across the stage in his rag-doll dance and encouraged unassuming guitarist and old-school pal Jonny Buckland to step into the spotlight for some spiraling solos during "In My Place." They slipped another new one into the mix, the strummy, U2-like push-pull rocker "Major Minus," then countered with more crowd pleasers with the chugging, percussive "Lost!" and a spare arrangement of "The Scientist." Martin asked the audience to help bring it home and, of course, they obliged, taking it in for a feather-soft landing right out of the band's playbook. Tweet your pics from Lollapalooza to @mtvnews and they could be featured on MTV.com! With many of the bells and whistles of their previous tour on the shelf — except for some giant balloons and a somewhat modest, for them, multicolored video wall — the band leaned on the yearning majesty of songs like "Shiver," which lived and died by Buckland's Edge-like soloing, Martin's keening falsetto and drummer Will Champion's whip-crack beats. "God Put a Smile Upon Your Face" built from a hushed ballad to a chaotic, strobe-lit rocker, with Champion playing a relentless martial beat as Martin literally tossed his acoustic guitar aside in favor of electric to add to the squall of reverb from Buckland. Martin played the part of saloon crooner during "Everything's Not Lost," tickling the ivories as the band built to a slow, powerful crescendo around him, with Champion taking over in his rough tenor while Buckland and Martin engaged in a slow-burn musical guitar face-off. Martin jokingly introduced another new tune, "Us Against the World," as a love song about an affair between right-wing TV talking head Bill O'Reilly and Fox News contributor Sarah Palin and his hope that through their love, they might see the world in a different way. He was, of course, kidding and proceeded to play the gentle acoustic ballad about taking on all comers by himself, with Champion joining in on backing vocals and piano, as the song built into a kind of Irish bar ballad. "Politik" pulsed like a fever, swinging from a constrained rumble to a frenzied, full band strobe-lit thunder, before segueing into the crowd-hyping "Viva la Vida." With Champion pounding kettle drums and a (Jerusalem) bell on cue, the power of the song to rouse an exhausted flock into shouting and dancing the "whoa oh oh oh oh oh" on cue with no prompting was further proof of Coldplay's permanent place in the rock stratosphere. The set ended with another new song, the pompy pop tune "Charlie Brown," which, again, fans seemed happy to hear in preview form. With green searchlight lasers scanning the crowd and the indelible opening fanfare of "Clocks" ringing out, the wilting field sprang to life again as tens of thousands swayed, shook their legs and yelled, "Nothing else compares!" The band executed the song with Swiss precision, Martin pounding the keys, bassist Guy Berryman keeping a metronome thrum and Champion rolling out the marching rhythm. As he's done several times lately, Martin quietly sang a tribute to Amy Winehouse with a solo piano chorus of the late British singer's hit "Rehab" that slid into the swooning sing-along "Fix You." As the song swelled, Martin threw his hands up and jumped, a move timed perfectly with a burst of silvery fireworks that erupted from the roof of the stage. Their faithful firmly in hand, the show ended with the band's new single, the excitable "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall," which the crowd greeted with nearly the same enthusiasm as one of the classics they had chanted along to all night. The colorful fireworks display set off against the city's iconic skyline didn't hurt either. That reaction was just about the perfect definition of rock stardom. There was plenty on display across the way as well, where Muse opened with the bombastic hit "Uprising" as the stage lit up with the band's signature "Tron"-like light-stravaganza. While tossing in bits of covers such as "House of the Rising Sun" and Nirvana's "Negative Creep," frontman Matthew Bellamy kept things gothic and theatrical, hitting up such catalog highlights as "United States of Eurasia," "Supermassive Black Hole," "Resistance" and the set-closing "Knights of Cydonia." But unlike his eternally genial and self-deprecating countryman Martin, Bellamy couldn't resist a slight dig, telling the crowd, "We know you had options [tonight] ... and you picked the right one." MTV News is in Chicago for Lollapalooza 2011! Stick with us all weekend as we cover the bands you love and the bands you will love soon. Related Videos Related Photos Related Artists |
| My Morning Jacket Not Sweating Competition From Eminem At Lollapalooza Posted: 06 Aug 2011 01:38 AM PDT Jam-loving rockers would welcome a drop-in by Jay-Z or Kanye West, though.
CHICAGO — Lollapalooza planners couldn't have come up with a pair of headliners for Saturday night (August 6) that are more diametrically opposed then Eminem and mind-expanding Louisville rockers My Morning Jacket. It's one of those bookings that makes things a little easier on fans who were torn on Friday night between the bombastic prog rock of Muse and the crowd-pleasing arena rock of countrymen Coldplay. But even with the stiff competition from Slim Shady at the other end of the grounds, on Saturday morning a confident Jim James said he was sure his band's fans would find their way to the north end of the field. Tweet your pics from Lollapalooza to @mtvnews and they could be featured on MTV.com! "We're just planning on having a good time and up the ante with our own smiles, just with our winning personalities," said frontman James when asked if the group would try to top their stunning 2007 main-stage performance, which included members of the Chicago Youth Symphony. No such stunts are planned for Saturday night's show. Frankly, with the forecast calling for major rainstorms, James said he was just hoping for the best. "We just pray and hope that the spirits are with us, because sometimes a lot of this stuff is out of your control, depending on what the weather wants to do, what the forces are like." Check out photos of your favorite bands at Lollapalooza 2011! After attending Lollapalooza in 1994 (and seeing the Verve and Flaming Lips on the second stage) as a high school sophomore, James said he's just blown away to be headlining this year, but he's not sweating the face-off with Eminem. "I think people will know in their soul what they want to hear," he laughed. But if they could swing it, wouldn't it be cool to beat Marshall at his own game and bring out someone like hometown rap legend Kanye West, or say, Jay-Z, who was rumored to be in town this weekend? "I wish, that's an open invite," he chuckled. Like many Lolla performers, the members of MMJ had their eyes on a couple of other bands they wanted to check out. Bassist Tom Blankenship was hoping to see the musically split-personality Ween, who were slated to play on the same stage just before MMJ. "Super-excited, I've never seen them," Blankenship said, though James was bummed that he was going to miss a set by Cee Lo Green, who was booked at the same time as Ween at the other end of the park. Hmm, a tough musical call. Why does that ring a bell? MTV News is in Chicago for Lollapalooza 2011! Stick with us all weekend as we cover the bands you love and the bands you will love soon. Related Videos Related Photos Related Artists |
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