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Thanks everyone for the nice birthday wishes. My birthday was Sunday, and it was a nice day.

From this point forward, people who are not Coldplay fans may want to move on in their blogroll. Come back later for more knitting fun!

For those of you are interested, the Coldplay concert was absolutely bloody f#$&ing brilliant! The concert was at the Quicken Loans Arena, fondly known as "The Q". This is the arena in which the Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team plays. The opening act was Richard Ashcroft, formerly of The Verve. His set was good -- the high point was his last song, Bittersweet Symphony. We waited about thirty or forty minutes for Coldplay.

From the very first song, the sold-out crowd was insane. When they played Yellow (scroll down to hear a little of the song), ginormous yellow balloons were dropped from the ceiling. They were designed to pop fairly quickly, and when they did, there were huge bursts of gold glitter. It was really cool. They started out playing several more up-tempo, louder songs, like Politik, God Put A Smile on My Face and Speed of Sound. In the middle of the set, they moved to the front of the stage and played a few songs that were quieter -- 'Til Kingdom Come and an amazing cover of Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire. Then the big show resumed, and they played Clocks and The Scientist and other songs from X & Y. At the end of Clocks, Chris Martin actually ran through the crowd and climbed into the seats, accompanied by security of course. For their encore, they did Swallowed in the Sea, In My Place (my all-time favorite Coldplay song) and, finally, Fix You. Amazing, amazing, is all I can say!