TNot tall as a sky laden with stars, a bucolic expression that the British band immortalized in one of their hits.
At the various exterior doors of Estádio Cidade de Coimbra, the normal rush before major events was remarkable this morning, with trucks entering and leaving, security in the final preparations and many, many fans of Coldplay, who kick off later that night in Portugal for a new stage of the tour, which will take more than 200,000 people to the city of Mondego until Sunday.
From Felgueiras, a group of three student friends in Porto, Inês, Ana and Luís, arrived early in Coimbra. After attending a concert by the band in Paris in 2017, this time they got together to enjoy “a show different from all the others”.
“We skipped classes and left Porto at 6:30 am. It’s an incredible show. There aren’t many bands like that”, they told Lusa, while peeking into the stadium’s interior through the marathon gate, which serves as an entrance for the trucks that help with the preparations. finals.
Ainoa traveled from further afield, from Vigo, Spain. Alone, but determined, the Spaniard woke up at 4:00 am, got on her way half an hour later and admitted that she was expecting a “memorable concert by an incredible band”.
“They are great, fantastic music. And the environment? An incredible environment, with thousands of colorful bracelets. Everything is prepared for a brutal night”, she said, while looking for the number of the doors that will put her in paradise later — ‘Paradise’ — one of the hits that he wants to dance to during the concert, like someone conquering the world.
The British Coldplay start today a journey of four concerts in Coimbra.
They return to the stage on Thursday, rest on Friday, and play again at Estádio Cidade de Coimbra on Saturday and Sunday. The doors open at 17:00 and it is expected that the concerts start around 18:45, ending at 00:00.
Bernardo, from Coimbra, who slept outside the stadium with his sister — and “another group of 30 people who, in the meantime, kept showing up” — remembered the night, but has already forgotten it, with a lot of wind, with a lot of sand from works, by the air, bothering, and said he expected an “unmissable concert”.
“I wanted to see it for a long time and we finally did. It’s a band that gives great shows, from what I’ve seen. We want to be the first to enter, to try to stay in front”.
Further south, from Lisbon, another group, in another part of the stadium, was looking for some coffee for breakfast.
“The four of us came and we also want to book a place. But first, breakfast”, said Marta who, along with Pedro, Marco and Simão slept near the Stadium.
The night, in the cold, with a “wicked and wild” wind, as in ‘Viva La Vida’, another hit by the English band, did not frighten this group of friends, who are prepared for a “night to never forget”.
“Perhaps we’ll even stay for the Queima” das Fitas, which starts on Thursday, said the four.
In addition to the four Coldplay concerts, Coimbra hosted the start of the Rally of Portugal last week and is in the antechamber of Queima das Fitas, which starts on Thursday and lasts for a week.
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