DCist did not attend Coldplay’s long-awaited show at Nissan Pavilion on Friday, and based on the reviews coming our way, we’re almost happy that we didn’t.

Various friends and readers have tipped us off to one reality that soured many a Coldplay fan’s night — nightmarish traffic. One reader reported a three-hour crawl over 30 miles, another ran head on into a two-hour wait to exit the parking area after the show but before the encore. And maybe worst of all, one reader’s four-hour venture out to Nissan — located in Bristow, VA — landed her in the concert with nothing but four songs remaining. A predictably angry thread on the 9:30 Club’s forum, aptly entitled “Demolish Nissan Pavilion…the Coldplay Thread,” included the following:

Too bad an excellent show by Coldplay was practically ruined by the expected traffic disaster that is attending a concert at Nissan Pavilion. The scene looked like a Houston area freeway during a hurricane evacuation.

Another reader vented:

nissan is absolutely pathetic. it was the most amateur handling of parking i have ever seen. Entire lots bottlenecking into one lane with absolutely no direction whatsoever. it’s gonna take someone really exceptional to get me to go back there.

So, did any DCist readers have the misfortune of landing in what may now become known as the infamous traffic jam of September 30, 2005? If so, did it sour the entire night, or was Coldplay’s music soothing enough to calm the frayed nerves?