2 August 2009: All Points West Festival, Liberty State Park, New Jersey, NY, USA

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2 August 2009: All Points West Festival, Liberty State Park, New Jersey, NY

1 Setlist
2 Photos
3 Videos
4 Discussion
5 Fan Reviews
6 Media Reviews
7 Twitter Updates

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Setlist

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Photos

Photos from this show can be found at Coldplaying.com in the Gallery thread for Liberty State Park. http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/gallery/showgallery.php/cat/1772

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Videos

Videos from this show can be found in the first post of the Coldplaying forum live thread for this show at http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=56101

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Discussion

All post-show discussion for this show at the forum thread: http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=56101

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Fan Reviews

All fan reviews have been submitted to us by the members of Coldplaying.com[1], unless stated otherwise.

Ok i just got back now only.I am almost front row at the show.To my front is the VIP area. And the b-stage and where they do In my place runner is just in front of me. And I was so near to them today.While they are performing In my place and gpasuyf and talk set i was just in front of them.

Chris looked at me over and over again and again.

And he said this is the best show ever,our singing is fantastic and we audience are number 1 out of all the shows.

That's all i can type now.

But i say this show just rocked in my words.

Instead of hardest part they did another song which i don't know.So there's a change in the setlist.

ok before i go to Mansfield show i am giving my review now:

I went to this festival.And first of all when i started at home i was so scared about raining and thunderstorms during the festival.But luckily the skies by the time cleared and there is no rain yesterday in the Jersey sity.We also have to turn our car again after we reached the Holland tunnel from New Jersey turnpike we confused whether its East or West.We went to berkeley heights NY and then turned our car from there took exit I-28 and then went back to holland tunnel following the signs and reached the right direction to go the festival again.But it took another 20 mins.Well but mistakes happen all the time. But it already rained there by the time i reached there.And there's full of mud every where.I think Chris mentioned it in Violet hill end that "if your feet is merging".Because of that annoying mud every where i've to leave my shoes and have to walk with bare legs till i reached our car and have to go back home like that only.And have to wash my legs for hours. Well coming to the review.After watching Elbow and the Echo and bunnymen I went straight to front stage at one time then i left that spot and went to the side of the stage to my luck the b-stage and the place where they do the in my place on the ramp was set in front of me. But there's still a VIP section in front of me.But not so many people there. After Coldplay came to the stage the LIT and Violet hill were both really awesome.And then Clocks as usual i like that song always especially latest live versions in this tour.And then In my place as i said the place where Jonny and Chris will do their last verse is set in front of me and they came there and i was very near to them.Just 2 feet.And then Yellow was really nice and at the end Chris fucked up before beginning to ask us sing and started to sing that line again.I think at the end of Yellow or some other songbut Chris said this was the best show ever.And we all sang the last verse "look at the stars look how they shine for you and all the things you do they were all yellow". But i was really waiting to see glass of water but well today i'll see it at Mansfield.No worries for that.And no cemeteries of london.And immediately they took 42 and at the end Chris went on singing the lyrics on the piano and he smiled and asked us to the sing along with him where he does his "ohhhh" part.And then fix you started he really liked our singing at the end and i say that because he really surprised at one point after we finished singing and said "ohh." and then said at the end "fantastic singing every body." And then Strawberry swing was awesome.And then the acoustic set again was in front of me on a small stage set.As usually the gpasuyf and talk set is the one i always like and enjoy and the band went back to the stage after that finished and Chris was alone on the stage and he did beastie boys cover.So its the change in the setlist.But well i am not a fan of them and i didn't know about that song.But i enjoyed Chris doing it. And Chris went back again to do Viva la vida and its just very awesome. We audience all did our viva chants at the end.And then Lost i really enjoyed it.And Green eyes,death will never conquer and billie jean they went to a stage set in the middle some where from the stage, but i can see it still where they did it there's a whole focus of lights on them.But i still don't know how they were able to cross that mud.But well they may have some arrangements too to go.I didn't really paid attention to what Chris's saying at the beginning of green eyes but i will say he joked a lot and before introducing Will for death will never conquer he fucked up while doing the harmonica.And the mexican cellphone wave was awesome too. And then i really enjoyed the Billie jean cover of Micheal Jackson and sang all the words of it.And after Viva remix they came back to the stage and then the Politik was as usually highly rocking and energetic.I enjoyed it.And then lovers in japan wow Chris kept on looking at me and also he used a white umbrella. The butterflies are not actually done in the entire place.But only to some where just in front.I think because of the dirty mud every where. And death and all his friends was really awesome.Its also one of my favorite songs.And they took the bow at the end.Ofcourse Chris came looked at us and waved.And after they went back i know that there's still encore to do so we waited.And the scientist beginned Chris took a book with complete set of their touring till now and said we audience are number 1.And they've really liked to do here in New York/New Jersey.They will see us again after some time that may be a relief for us and them for a while.And then started Scientist and thats really awesome and beautiful.And then Lit ii started and i enjoyed it and at the end Chris said "see you all again after few years.good bye" and they all waved and gone. Ofcourse i will not say this as special but Chris looked at me as always but this time i was more near to him.

[Pallavi]

Pallavi, was the song you didn't know when it was Chris only at the piano? If so that was Fight for Your Right (to Party) by the Beastie Boys, a get well soon to Adam Yauch and nod to them. I did get that on video but that will have to wait til tomorrow night. Great set from the band - exactly a year to the day since I last saw them in Hartford, the show is much tighter and Chris' voice much stronger now. And I'm beat slogging through the mud, so off to bed...

[PopArtist]

Just got back. The show was AMAZING. Seriously, the audience was brilliant. The best audience I've been a part of so far. simply brilliant. Pics and vids to come tomorrow!

[technicolor24]

Just got back... what a show! Coldplay never disappoints live. I'll post some videos (HD... wooo!), and also some pics!

[the_gloaming09]

Will do a proper review later...and post pics&vids(I did it for most of the show so something good has to come out of that!) But for now I'll say, as cranky as I was at some(lots)of moments....the long wait in the rain and then disgusting mud was all worth it! I guess this really does mean I'll go through anything for Coldplay!

And I think someone already mentioned it, but it was same setlist as Montreal; meaning usual setlist but NO Glass of Water or Cemeteries of London and instead of The Hardest Part, the Beasties' song.

[CookyMnstr]

The show was AMAZING!!!!! Standing in mud for 8 hours, getting blisters the size of dimes, watching two people pass out, witnessing a fight break out, and not eating or drinking all day was totally worth the show that Coldplay put on. I was less than 20 feet from the stage! I got some amazing pictures [when the guys stood still enough for my camera to take them] and even took home my own small army of butterflies. Loved the Beastie Boys cover, but the best song of the night was definitely "Viva la Vida". You could hear the thousands of people in the crowd all chanting the same "ooooOOOoooOOOO". It was truly a spectacular night.

[lovers.in.nj]

Well i might as well start my review now while Youtube takes forever to upload my vids. What had been a day full of thunderstorms turned into a beautiful breazy evening with my wonderful friends to see our favorite band. The venue was huge and gorgeous being on the water overlooking amazing NYC, the city lights at night were spectacular but a bit heartbreaking knowing that two buildings in my view of NYC were not there. the grounds were somewhat muddy when i got there but ok,Thank god for the boots. made it to the stage where the boys would be playing found sarah, Denise and noelia but decieded to get a beer and walk grounds, a bit to hot and crowded to wait 3 more hours for the boys and people were nice so i did not think it would be a prob getting back to them.

so i come back and the crowd was jammed in like sardines, there was literally no room between bodies, the smell combination of sweat, mud, landfill and sewage was overwhelming most of the peeps were cool feeling bad for a little old lady to get back to her friends when low and behold a mean son of a beatch stopped me in my tracks, 5 peeps away from Cooky, Denise and Sarah and he was not letting me get any closer, he was yelling and making a fit because everyone was like "just let her through "and he was a bastard. me, not wanting to start a riot ,i sucked it up and could not get to barrier with the girls but it was ok, feeling a bit upset i started talking to some really nice people and it made me feel better. "Front Row Baby" was not in the cards this time but it was was wonderful to watch my girls enjoy themselves,a new perspective of sorts, I have vids of the back of Cooky, jumping up and down, having a blast. you can't see Sarah, cute as she is, but vertically challenged.

so on with the show: Lit never ceases to make me cry and i did. was a bit worried about chrissy and the sparklers but all was well. my vid is too dark . Clocks was amazing as always, lazers were fab. Yellow was a blast but the friggin balloons were covered in god knows what and mud went everywhere, in crevices of my camera, in my ears, in my eyes. Then Strawberry Swing came on and i lost it,, wanting to be with Cooky i was crying again, covered in mud ,sweat and tears i can truly say i have never been more pathetic looking and i am sure Chris was not looking at me , but i was where i am most comfortable, in a sundress at a gig and this is what i live for. but this just might be my last festival because at one point i wanted to jump up and down but my boots had sunk into the mud and i was literally stuck, someone had to help me so i would not fall over. my feet were not off the ground.

When Chris did the Beastie Boys cover - YGTFFYRTParty, i was like holy shit flashback!!! reliving the good old days when MTV had great vids - fab tribute to a ground breaking group . Aucustic session is always wonderful and Green Eyes makes me beam with happiness a great sing along for everyone. I have a great vid of POlitik and that song never ceases to get me. Lovers in Japan, omg the most joyous song ever and everyone screaming with delight, always enjoys hearing the newbies freak out when the butterflies come out. the happiest song of the show. i felt so bad for the beautiful butterfliies falling to the mud filled ground getting smooshed, wanted to scoop them up but that was not happening tonight. When i hear Death its always bittersweet because you know the show is ending, beautiful just beautiful, they came out for encore and peeps started to leave, idioits, but more room for me. oh at some point chris threw out glow sticks and i got one! Tweeted all night many thanks to Lore, Hester, and Min for reporting, please forgive if i left someone out. The Scientist - what do you say, gorgeously done with just chris and the piano and then the boys came out to join encore.

I have to say the big screens were amazing showing the boys against the NYC night sky line, stunning. Jersey did a great job but if i do a festival again it will be VIP section. my pics are not great but that's ok i just loved being there enjoying the music that means so much to me while looking at the city that i love more than anything.

oh yeah, FANFUCKINGTASTIC

[Christa1]

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haha i saw that warning sign sign! i was on the other side and thought it's probably someone from here. i had so much fun despite all the mud, and the terrible terrible smell!!! I wish I could see them everyday, SO GOOD. lol at "mud sauna" ahhhhh i love them so effing much!!!!!!!!! Though I must admit that I hate festivals! It was my 1st one, and if it weren't for Coldplay i wouldn't go.

Did anyone notice Jonny's brother in the VIP section during echo and the bunnyman? idk if jonny has a brother but he MUST have one because there was this guy who looked exactly like him! i looked at hm WAY too many times, he was probably wtf-ing at me lol

edit: forgot to mention i was in teh 3rd row from the stage almost in the center! some tall dudes were in front of me so my view wasn't as clear as i wanted it to be, but still i could see chris' sweat dripping off his face, and i had a great view of jonny, will was kind of far away as the stage was pretty high off the ground, and guy was so far away from me but all in all great night, despite the horrible muddy conditions.

[asia]

Pictures and a review of sorts are coming tomorrow. I just had a 12 hour day of work after running on 4 hours of sleep, so I'm just a little bit exhausted. But the show was fantastic, despite all the mud! Glad you saw our "Warning Sign," Asia! Didn't see any Jonny look-a-likes, but then again I wasn't looking too closely at the VIP section, I was too busy wishing that it wouldn't fill up for Coldplay.

[SwallowedInSea]

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Media Reviews

It’s terribly fashionable to criticize Coldplay but unless trenchfoot is the latest hipster accessory, there wasn’t anyone being fashionable on the third day of All Points West, writes Rolling Stone.

With the rain and sludge double-whammy demoralizing the thousands of fans in Liberty State Park, the sound of the London-four piece spinning out a decade’s worth of stadium anthems and a few other party favors was just the unpretentious tonic that Sunday night needed.

Dressed in their now familiar (but no-less conspicuous) French revolutionary clobber and backlit to within an inch of their lives, Chris Martin and Co. reached high gear almost instantly, dispatching “Clocks,” “In My Place” and “Yellow” before they’d even said a proper hello. “As four British people who grew up in the mud and the rain, we salute you for coming out to what can only be described as a mud Jacuzzi,” gushed Chris Martin before spinning and spiraling around the stage during '42'; like a little boy who’s just discovered how fun it is to make yourself dizzy.

Although the band is nearing the end of a touring cycle that has been in motion since last year’s Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends, they attacked the set with all the verve and energy of a band who’ve just come out of hibernation rather than beginning to go back into it. It’s a prowess that made the woozy psychedelic sway of “Strawberry Swing” sound more like a mesmerizing tribal stomp, transformed “God Put A Smile On Your Face” into a synthetic, New Order-esque dance number and even saw them throwing in an All Points West-related surprise in the shape of another Beastie Boys shout out.

But while Jay-Z damn near blew up the main stage by tearing through “No Sleep ‘Til Brooklyn” in honor of the absent hip-hoppers as his opener on Friday night, Martin paid his own homage by cantering through a priceless piano-ballad version of “Fight For Your Right (To Party),” bringing out belly laughs as well as sing-alongs from the crowd. Corny as hell for sure, but there’s not a soul on site who could have questioned the sincerity of Martin’s tribute. That charming combination of the silly and the profound was repeated during an brief acoustic set (played from a mini-stage in the center of the crowd) when all four members added to the continual stream of Jacko-tributes by putting their spin on “Billie Jean” — complete with some admirably precise Martin falsettos.

Yet, even after such an impressive set, the singer’s self-effacing streak was no less prominent. “You probably won’t see us again for a while… which is probably good news for some of you,” was his preamble before the band wound down with “The Scientist.” On balance, the prospect of spending some time away from Coldplay is no where near as exciting as taking a break from All Points West. It’ll take a year off just to scrape the mud off.

http://www.rollingstone.com/

Coldplay closes All Points West

"This has to be the strangest-smelling but best concert we've ever played."

Thus spoke Coldplay frontman Chris Martin Sunday night as he looked over the soaking crowd on the final evening of the second edition of All Points West Music and Arts Festival in Jersey City.

Martin was referring to the odorous mixture of mud, rain water, mulch and swampland into which Liberty State Park was transformed over the past three days, and the audience roared in acknowledgement, as if to say, "We know, but we survived!"

By 10 p.m. on Sunday, the grounds at the park looked as though they had endured all they could. There wasn't much grass left to speak of. The garbage bins were overflowing with water bottles and half-eaten tacos. Stray shoes littered the soggy muck, abandoned by concertgoers who had long since decided that the best footwear at All Points West was none at all.

"We're four people from Britain who grew up in the mud and the rain," Martin said, "so we take our hats off to you New Yorkers and New Jerseyers for surviving what could only be described as a mud jacuzzi."

Coldplay was a fittingly grand finale to this festival -- the largest of its kind on the East Coast. The quartet can arguably be called the biggest band in the world, and Martin and company acted the part. Taking several cues from U2's book, Martin spoke continuously with audience members, inviting them to sing along, then complimenting them for doing so. On "Violet Hill," from the band's most recent album, he replaced the line, "If you love me, let me know" with "If your feet are muddy, let me know."

When the band played its very first hit single, "Yellow," a cascade of large yellow balloons came rolling into the crowd and bounced along its surface.

When one came bouncing back toward Martin, he deftly popped it with the neck of his guitar. Coldplay also utilized a smaller second stage (like U2), on which they huddled together to play an electro-freak version of their otherwise pedestrian hit "God Put a Smile on Your Face." Martin followed that with a solo piano rendition of the Beastie Boys' "Fight for Your Right To Party" -- a tip of the cap to the Brooklyn rappers who had to pull out of the festival.

Earlier in the muddy day, electro-pop newbies La Rouge and Lykke Li had the crowd at the third stage raving for hours. Rock acts We Are Scientists, Mogwai, and the Black Keys were among the highlights at the second stage. The Black Keys, in particular, impressed with their thunderous two-man blues-rock assault. And the on the main stage, the crowd stepped around the numerous mud puddles (or, in some cases, danced in them with abandon) as English acts Elbow, Echo and the Bunnymen, and Coldplay made them forget about being wet.

After three days of uncertain weather and certain dirtiness, the devoted fans at All Points West had made it through in style.

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http://www.nj.com/entertainment/music/index.ssf/2009/08/coldplay_closes_all_points_wes.html

All Points Wet Is A Lot More Like It

HOW do you ruin the recipe for a three-day rock festival when you have first-class talent and ingredients? Just add water.

At All Points West, the big star wasn't Coldplay, Tool or hometown rap mogul Jay-Z, all appearing at the event and dishing up fine headlining performances. APW won't be remembered for these three great acts or the more than 50 artists supporting them, but rather the mud, that smelled like raw sewage, felt like pudding beneath your feet, and made getting around the Liberty State Park seem like a survivors' reality show stunt.

No exaggeration. Just ask the kid who slipped crossing the depths of a mud wallow Friday night and started thrashing in the thick pool, screaming, "The leeches! The leeches!" He got laughs from everybody nearby, but we all stepped with even more care, not wanting to discover that maybe he wasn't kidding.

The rain, mud, general dampness (and possible leeches) weren't all bad. On Friday night, just after the third rain storm of the day and afro-pop punks Vampire Weekend played "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa," the chief Vampire, Ezra Koenig, announced that the festival promoters felt bad about the horrendous weather, so all Friday tickets would be honored again for either Saturday's (sunny) or yesterday's (rainy) performances. A nice gesture.

While APW was primarily an alt-rock festival, the bill was eclectic, with a healthy dose of electronic music and a strong hip-hop presence over the course of the three days. Clearly, Jay-Z, who pinch-hit for the canceled Beastie Boys, was one of the weekend's strongest acts.

Jay opened his set by tipping his hat to the Beasties (currently on ice because of Adam Yauch's throat cancer) with a cover of the Boys' much loved "No Sleep Till Brooklyn," which earned him big points, especially with fans still disappointed about the cancellation. Jay-Z also tried out some new "Blueprint 3" material but easily hit his swaggering stride during his signature "Izzo (H.O.V.A.)."

Tool possibly played the loudest set I've ever heard. The volume was so cranked that your nose felt as if it were vibrating on your face. Yet, somehow, the band's sound guys made the audacious assault work for the band. My Bloody Valentine tried the same trick, but only managed to sound as if they had turned on a fighter jet's engine.

http://www.nypost.com/

All Points West preview: Coldplay head for muddy Liberty State Park, NJ

The sun was shining yesterday at the All Points West Music and Arts Festival, but many of the thousands who trekked to Liberty State Park for the second day of the East Coast's largest rock festival still had rain on the brain.

Friday's downpour left spectators standing in mud up to their ankles. Many shivered through their skinny jeans and stylish T-shirts in the night air. As a reward for their perseverance, single-day ticket holders were admitted free for either yesterday's or today's festivities. Not surprisingly, attendance swelled yesterday afternoon.

As fans began filtering into the park, it was immediately clear that the Friday rain problem had begot a Saturday mud problem. Concertgoers stepped gingerly around the grounds as if in a minefield, looking for the least soggy route to where they were going.

Early in the afternoon at the main stage, on the south end of the festival, fans of Kentucky-based rock quintet Cage the Elephant splattered mud into the air with abandon as they jumped and danced. Some frolicked barefoot, with the deep brown mud caking their feet like low-topped shoes. Organizers spread wood chips and mulch as strategically as possible, but with the enclosed concert area stretching to about a mile from the main entrance to the main stage, the result was negligible.

"It was a wet mess, but it was fun," said Dennis, a 41-year-old attendee with a full three-day ticket who had survived Friday's downpour. "Today is nicer, but I could do without the smell. It's like old mud, as opposed to fresh mud. And the Porta-Johns -- you can smell them in a lot more places today." Dennis was waiting on a relatively short line for a free massage -- one of dozens of booths and tents at All Points West that offer everything from food to video games to cell phones to official Major League Baseball merchandise.

About 25,000 people are expected to attend each of the festival's three days. For Tony Belfer, a security guard checking IDs at the entrance to a sprawling on-site beer garden, this was certainly a good thing. "The biggest problem we're having is the mud, but all in all, everything is going fine," he said. Nearby at the Taco Heaven food stand, 27-year-old Mike Lucius was optimistic behind the grill as he tried to make up for the lost business on Friday.

"The rain hurt us, no doubt," he said. "But since they gave all the ticket-holders free passes for today, we're hoping it'll even out a little. Once the bigger acts start going, we'll start selling some tacos."

As dinnertime crept up, fans began to get excited about some of the evening's more well-known acts, including Arctic Monkeys, Gogol Bordello, My Bloody Valentine and evening headliner Tool. The latter, a veteran Los Angeles-based hard-core act that inspires near-religious devotion among its fans, was visibly represented all day by fans wearing a variety of Tool T-shirts.

All Points West is a staunchly rain-or-shine event, and with British mope-rock gods Coldplay set to close the festival, the crowds are sure to come trudging back. They'd be advised not to wear shoes they care at all about.

http://www.nj.com/

Coldplay dazzle with close out to "All Points Wet!" festival

After a soggy Friday and sunny Saturday, the thunderstorms returned for the third and last day of All Points West, this time resulting in major delays and canceled sets for the festival held at Liberty State Park in Jersey City, NJ. But after the rain cleared and mercifully stayed away, organizers hustled to get the schedule back on track, culminating in a dazzler of a headlining set by Coldplay, writes Billboard.

Sunday's line-up, scheduled to begin at 12:30 p.m. in the comedy tent and 2 p.m. on the music stages, was pushed back several hours due to severe storms that hit the area midday. Fans who arrived early were turned away at the gates, and it wasn't until just before 4 p.m. that ticket holders were invited to line up at the festival entrance for an even longer wait for admission.

Comedians Todd Barry, Christian Finnegan and Janeane Garofalo, originally slated for 45-minute sets at the Queen of the Valley tent, were rushed through with 10 minutes each to make way for the musical acts that followed them. "I might do a tour of entirely rained-out festivals," said Barry, "it's big money for not a lot of work at all."

Some sets were canceled altogether--indie rockers Steel Train and New Jersey punk band the Gaslight Anthem, scheduled to take the main Blue Comet stage in the afternoon, were scrapped to allow later bands to perform at their scheduled times.

Silversun Pickups opened the main stage just as the sun started to burn off the cloud cover, and its performance of the 2006 single "Lazy Eye" prompted a mudpit dance party that gathered more dirty feet as the set went on. Acclaimed Manchester outfit Elbow turned up spirits even higher with frontman Guy Garvey's charming stage command and audience participation numbers like "Grounds For Divorce". British post-punk band Echo & the Bunnymen had a slow start as singer Ian McCulloch wrestled with some technical complaints but worked up to a stirring close with its 1982 hit "The Cutter."

Coldplay brought the festival home in spectacular fashion -- literally, if you include the band's "Viva La Vida" French Revolutionary-themed costumery -- with show pieces ranging from pyrotechnics to enormous yellow balloons released into the audience during the song "Yellow."

"As four people from Britain who grew up in the mud and rain, we take off our proverbial hats to you New Yorkers and New Jerseyans who came out to what can only be described as a mud jacuzzi," said singer Chris Martin. He later said the show was "one of the strangest smelling but best concerts we've ever done," referring to the strong odor of manure that had been churned by the storms and lingered over the festival grounds. Coldplay also paid tribute to "absent friends" with an acoustic "Billie Jean" cover and, in one of the more unexpected interpretations of the weekend, Chris Martin's solo piano crooner version of the Beastie Boys' "Fight For Your Right to Party."

[Billboard Magazine]

MTV: Coldplay electrify waterlogged All Points West festival

JERSEY CITY, New Jersey — If you didn't mind the (near constant) rain, the resultant mud, the trench foot or the indescribable odor of 10,000 soaking-wet Tool fans, well, then the second All Points West festival was genuinely great.

Actually, it was pretty great regardless of those things, a testament to the organizers who assembled a lineup that managed to outshine the deluges that flooded New Jersey's Liberty State Park all weekend. The brainchild of Goldenvoice, the same folks who bring you Coachella, APW lived up to the pedigree, delivering a lineup heavy on indie (both new and old), hip-hop and buzz bands, and positively top-heavy with headliners — Jay-Z (who filled in last minute for the , Coldplay and Tool. It was so solid a schedule, full of so many can't miss acts, that you almost didn't mind trekking through calf-deep mud to get from one stage to the next.

it was Coldplay who closed out All Points West, with a set that managed to be both massive — they have, after all, sold something north of 50 million albums worldwide — and minimal, connecting with each member of the waterlogged masses who stuck around Sunday to see them perform (this is probably the secret to their success: Coldplay are very personable dudes).

Kicking off with a trio of tracks — "Life in Technicolor," "Violet Hill," the massive "Clocks" — Coldplay then got down to getting close to the crowd. Frontman Chris Martin saluted their dedication: "As four British people who grew up in the mud and the rain," he laughed, "we salute you for coming out to what can only be described as a mud Jacuzzi."

They got psychedelic ("Strawberry Swing"), trance-y ("God Put a Smile on Your Face") and goofy (Martin's sorta jig during "42"), and — much like Jay-Z — they paid tribute to both the Beastie Boys and Michael Jackson, the former with a ballady take on "Fight for Your Right (to Party)", the latter with a version of "Billie Jean," complete with Martin's Jacko-esque falsettos.

They closed All Points West with the somber, wobbly "The Scientist," as Martin promised the crowd that it would probably be a while until they heard from Coldplay again. We should be dry by then.

[MTV]

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2 August 2009: All Points West Festival, Liberty State Park, New Jersey, NY, USA

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