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Chris Martin taking the stage during Coldplay Ahmedabad show 25/1

I still vividly remember the day the I found out that Coldplay was coming to India. Since then, not a day went by where I would not think about being there & witnessing it live. But to my despair I couldn’t get the any tick, neither Mumbai nor Amd. I did get in touch with a reseller who was a friend of a friend & promised me to give the tick for Mumbai show (I live in Mumbai bdw). I would keep counting weeks & then days to the concert. My wife, who is not a Coldplay fan kept looking at me talk in excitement. She started to listen all the songs I told here were my favourite ones, Fix You being the most. Couple of days after people started receiving the physical tick, I started the panic as the reseller stopped responding. I had not given any money to him. Couple of days before the concert I was informed that he sold those to someone for a higher price. I was devastated. Lost all hope. Wasted 2 days doing nothing in sadness. My wife kept saying that something better will happen & she kept searching for tick. I have a maternal brother who had got 4 Amd ones & was unable to go. We talked to him, I got a couple of my friends onboard & it was decided- we were going for the Ahmedabad concert! I just kept jumping in joy. We made our travel plans, booked a hotel in Vadodara & off we go. The day of the concert we reached the stadium at 2pm. We had seating tick but still went early(I did not want to risk/miss anything). The stadium was grand. I had never been inside such a huge stadium before. There was lot of negativity before the Amd concert about people backing out & most tick being booked by scalpers who couldn’t find buyers. But the stadium kept on filling and more&more ppl just kept coming. Of the 3 acts before Coldplay, I enjoyed Elyana’s the most. But my heart just kept ticking & I just kept counting time till 7:45 pm when the band would start. There was a great chill in the air. The stadium was packed and then came in the band - Coldplay. Without wasting a second, they just started in top gear. It felt like a big party from the word go. The lights, led wristbands, fireworks & Chris Martin singing to higher power - I was transported to another world! They just kept playing song after song & I sang & danced along to all of them. Oh what joy! Just recalling it gives me goosebumps. My wife sang along with all the songs she had known by then. We were having the time of our lives. Chris is not just a singer but a performer. He controls such a huge crowd at his will. We sang, danced, laughed. Then came the time he was about to play fix you. I could feel my blood rushing. The song has gotten me through a lot of tough times in my existence of 30 years. The song started and tears just kept streaming down my face. I had felt life come to a full circle. My wife saw me & started crying too. She was singing along to my surprise. She had learnt that song for me. I fell in love with her again. I cannot never forget that feeling. 130K people singing together was something else. The concert ended, we got back to our hotel. I am back in Mumbai & resumed work, but I still feel I am back there. The thoughts of the concert just keep playing in the background of my mind. I cannot stop thinking about it. And so I finally decided to write it all down here. If you’ve reached this far, do let me know how you felt too. I would love reading your story of the concert.

Took my daughter to night 2 Toronto ... Warning Sign ... Unreal ... She loved the lights, fireworks, moon goggles and of course Something Just Like This ... Well done Coldplay and we'll hopefully see you again before 8 yrs ... Eh ...

This is a Takamine guitar played by Chris Martin during the parachutes era.

It was thrown into the crowd during the parachutes tour, at the Aberdeen Concert Hall, Scotland. My parents caught it and due to limited security at the time were able to just walk backstage(unheard of today) and get it signed by Chris Martin himself.

The text, written in pen long ago, since covered in nail varnish in an attempt to preserve, originally read something along the lines of "my parents names guitar, Coldplay 2001".

Of course none of this I can verify, and I don't really know where I would start. Closest I have gotten is a concert photo from 2000 showing scratches in similar places and an article from the time describing the guitar being thrown into the crowd at that concert which I can link if requested. I'm fully new to Reddit, but thought here would be a good starting spot. Any advice at all is appreciated and I'm happy to respond to any questions. Thanks!

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These were two incredibly nervous, young girls who had what sounded like a packed Wembley hissing and jeering at them for saying they were from Israel. You could visibly see they were upset by the crowd's reaction. Someone next to me, a grown adult at that, even booed at the top of their lungs. I personally couldn't believe what I was hearing, but thankfully Chris did a really good job at diffusing the crowd. Considering the togetherness culture that Coldplay concerts try and promote, the crowd's reaction was just so unbelievably embarrassing and you should be ashamed of yourselves