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@Minute 1 for the crowd's chant - never fails to give me the chills.


There's a handful of things that happen in the world that you can enjoy and later on call a "Magical" moment. For example, a friendly gesture replied with a thank you that crept from the deepest crevices of the heart, or an honest romantic moment that leaves your heart aflutter. Those and, of course, a Coldplay concert.

No really, magical doesn't even begin to define it. They combined light and colors and fireworks and music and threw it all at us - it was exhilarating when the wristbands we were offered upon entering started glittering on and off to the song's beat, or when the whole stadium turned dark and the only lights to guide us were on our wrists, in an afternoon and night that was rainy all along - all along, of course, except during Coldplay themselves's performance, in which rain fell once and very lightly.

The fireworks in the stadium itself was spectacular - but it was further enhanced when they let it off precisely when the place went dark again and Chris Martin started singing the line "Lights will guide you home", as if triggering both the wristbands and the red fireworks that quietly rose to the sky and disappeared.

Then during Every Tear is a Waterfall, which contains the line "But still I'll raise the flag" in the climatic moment, it was just overwhelmingly awesome when someone threw a Portuguese flag onto the stage and Christ Martin took a moment to sing that line along with a raised flag. My ears are still buzzing not just from the songs, but from the audience.

The audience had a sort unanimous call: the chorus melody from Viva la Vida. Every once in a while, in breaks between songs, the whole audience would just start singing this - once again, in unison.

Sure, I spent two hours waiting in line outside the stadium so I could buy a plastic raincoat (a plastic trash bag with holes) that I never got, suffering under the torture of the rain. Sure, I was smack in the middle of the stadium at one point, getting soaked under the heaviest rain all day while listening to a singer I'd never heard of (apparently she's related to Coldplay and she's British). Sure, there were hellish hours when I just couldn't make way through that crowd to reach the front lines.

But, who cares? It's Coldplay, it's ALWAYS worth it!

This wristband I'll keep it with the fond memory of the audience - well, us! - raising our arms and hands to show the sparkling accessory while singing to Paradise and Viva la Vida, and even more with the touching tone of Fix You, Speed of Sound and Clocks.

THAT is magical. Plain simply. Magical.

Thanks for reading. :3