{"id":5523,"date":"2011-07-20T12:56:33","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T12:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=5523"},"modified":"2011-07-20T13:26:22","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T13:26:22","slug":"coldplay-fix-you-at-glastonbury-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2011-07\/coldplay-fix-you-at-glastonbury-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Coldplay &#8220;Fix You&#8221; at Glastonbury 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are going to <strong>Glastonbury in 2013*<\/strong>.\u00a0 We have a new quest.\u00a0 Thanks to the under-appreciated<strong> Palladia Channe<\/strong>l, we have watched the highlights from every Glastonbury show since 2004.\u00a0 It just gets better and better.\u00a0 All bands kick it up five or ten notches for Glastonbury, and we have never seen better audiences to add fuel to the bands&#8217; fires.\u00a0 Whether it&#8217;s<strong> Blur, Radiohead<\/strong> or <strong>Arcade Fire<\/strong>, the results are the same. Year in, year out.<\/p>\n<p>This year was no exception.\u00a0 <strong>Radiohead<\/strong> and <strong>Pulp <\/strong>made surprise appearances, but the biggest surprise for us was <strong>Coldplay&#8217;s <\/strong>headlining set.\u00a0 We had, we now admit, grown weary of Coldplay and their omnipresent songs.\u00a0 For some time we&#8217;ve considered them a substandard U2\/Radiohead combo.\u00a0 But their Glastonbury performance provided a powerful dose of reality and showed how wrong we can be.\u00a0 This band&#8217;s songs are filled with masterful melodies, and they are instinctual musicians that enliven and animate their songs in concert.\u00a0 The new songs they played at Glastonbury bode well for their impending new album.\u00a0 On paper their lyrics can seem somewhat insipid, but sung live and backed by the 175,000-member Glastonbury choir\/audience they pack a powerful punch.<\/p>\n<p>Check out three different video versions below of Coldplay playing <em><strong>Fix You.<\/strong><\/em> It&#8217;ll warm the cockles of your heart (whatever that means; it just seems apropos given Glastonbury&#8217;s southwest England locale).<\/p>\n<p>Who knows, tears may stream down your face as you watch.\u00a0 And you may be fixed for a time.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Coldplay-Fix You-Glastonbury-2011-HD.mp4\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q2eMadBWWHw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Coldplay Fix You Live @ Glastonbury 2011\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T8_UGVjmog4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fix You and What A Wonderful World cover by Coldplay at Glastonbury 2011\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NaLnwI1nBkI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>*We&#8217;d attend next year, but the organizers are passing given the Summer Olympics in England.\u00a0 So we&#8217;ll have to wait until 2013.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are going to Glastonbury in 2013*.\u00a0 We have a new quest.\u00a0 Thanks to the under-appreciated Palladia Channel, we have watched the highlights from every Glastonbury show since 2004.\u00a0 It just gets better and better.\u00a0 All bands kick it up five or ten notches for Glastonbury, and we have never seen better audiences to add [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}