Coldplay and Fiona Apple

On the weekend I got to see Coldplay and Fiona Apple play in Orlando. Actually, ha, let me correct that. I got to see a bit of one Fiona Apple song – “Fast as you can” – and you can bet I was running as fast as I could to get to my seat when I arrived at the venue.

It turns out we had a bit of bad luck with the traffic that night. What should have been a 15 minute drive to the venue turned out being over an hour drive. Whilst sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic we had to get to exit 83B on the I-4. Fiona would have already started her set, and being support act, would only be playing for 45 mins or so. Anyway, we came up to exit 82A… 5 mins passed … exit 82B … another 5 mins gone … exit 82C… at which point I stated “ha, wouldn’t it be funny if there was an 82D exit!” Nobody in the car really appreciated the humour.

We arrived, sat down, and Fiona left the stage. Excellent. I can’t really express how much I was looking forward to seeing Fiona play live. I guess I’ll have to wait another 5 years or something now.

Coldplay were awesome again though. It was cool to see all the massive yellow balls fall down again during “Yellow”. Afterwards we were supposed to meet up with some people who were going to get us into one of the cool clubs. Unfortunately, one of them had a bit too much to drink and she was getting sick in the bathroom HALF WAY through the Coldplay set! Awesome.

Downtown was also bumper-to-bumper traffic so we decided to grab some grog and drink up at our hotel. I can’t remember much after that, although I do remember us watching my copy of “You shoot, I shoot” for a little bit. It’s pretty difficult to concentrate on subtitles when you’re not exactly sober.