Neon Lights!

This past Monday I was lucky enough to wind up with some tickets to the Coldplay concert at the Toyota Center here in Houston. Now, I will say that I am not a huge Coldplay fan. I loved the song, "Yellow," but other than that one and maybe a few other Top 40 hits they have, I'm not some diehard fan. But I like concerts, and I had not yet been to the Toyota Center.

So we rolled up a little early and enjoyed some food and the opening acts. Well one of the opening acts anyway. The first up was Wolfgang, a British band who was a lot like Coldplay. They were younger, but had that same sound to their songs. They were having a great time on stage and that made it impossible to not enjoy the performance.

Wolfgang

Then came, Robyn. Now Dirty E was with me and she said something before this gal took stage like, "oh she was on Gossip Girl recently and was really good, I'm excited." Boy was she wrong. Apparently the appearance on the very popular show was much different from her opening act at this concert.

This girl was wearing a grandmother's sports bra with a see-through shirt over it. From the bottom she had a June Cleaver style blue skirt with blue tights and bright green spandex under the skirt that she repeatedly lifted up. To round out the ridiculous outfit she had white tights on with lime green, platform Doc Martin boots. Oh and did I mention her hair? She had two really long pieces on the sides of her face and the rest was a bowl cut.

This girl is...interesting.

Her look matched her performance. She went from bogus, drunk-girl style dancing to some pretty impressive hip-hop moves while shouting awful rap type lyrics. When she finally did sing a few ballads, mixed to club style beats, she had a good voice, but the overall performance was just mind- blowing terrible.

Then came the real show of the night. I'll start by backing up a minute. When we walked in the lady taking our tickets urged us to take and put on a Coldplay wristband. Then as we walked to our seats we saw signs that instructed concert goers to "Be sure to wear their wristband." When we arrived to our seats there were again signs and even announcements to put the wristbands on. We got the message and wore the wristbands.

So when Coldplay was taking the stage the place obviously went dark. The first thing to light up was the highlighter, neon graffiti all over the stage. Then neon lights went shooting across the arena. And finally as the band rushed the stage, all at once everyone's wristbands lit up different neon colors. The place was electric.

Thousands of little blinking neon lights!

About halfway through the kick-off song cannons of confetti shot into the air and covered the place in little neon pieces of paper. And by the time that first song was done I think everyone in the Toyota Center had a new favorite band. 

Confetti cannons!!!

The next few songs were a little bit lower keys but still very impressive. And right when things seem to be slowing down, BOOOM, confetti cannon and blinking wristbands again! This time they added even more when huge balloons fell from the rafters! Everyone was bouncing them into the air and tons ended up on stage. It was awesome chaos with a really great soundtrack playing.

PaRtY!!

The roller coaster then slowed down for a few songs and song extremely well played guitar solos before one final neon drenched finale. We got out of there before the encore but if it was anything like the rest of the concert, I'm sure it was spectacular.

My favorite Coldplay song, Yellow.

All in all it was a great decision to accept the tickets. I have a new respect for the band Coldplay and I would recommend to anyone seeing one of their concerts. Especially since you get to keep that fun little wristband!

xoxo Sara Marie