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Hi, In case anyone's interested or missed them, Absolute Radio has got a load of great videos from the red carpet at the Empire Film Awards 2010... So if you're interested, take a look at Absolute Radio's Empire Film Award Interviews. Cheers Tim

Hi Just a quick update - voting is going well and ends on Monday... And there are currently 4 Coldplay songs in the top 20 which is great - but strangely none in the top 10 yet? Will any of them make it in the next couple of days?

Hi, Just wanted to give you a quick reminder that there’s just a few days left for you to vote for Coldplay songs as your choice in Absolute Radio’s Song of the Decade voting. Lots of people have already voted, and you can see the top 50 songs from the last 24 hours to keep track of how Coldplay is doing. In the last day, the highest song by Coldplay is Viva La Vida – so get voting now if you think it’s a song worthy of being crowned as the Song of the Decade when voting ends on December 7th. **Click here to vote for Coldplay**

Hi There's just five days left to vote (Voting closes on Monday) - so it's more important than ever to vote! Fix You is still leading the charge for Coldplay but it still needs more votes: http://songofthedecade.com/song/Coldplay/Fix+You And remember anyone can vote, so why not post it on Facebook, Twitter, other forums you use etc to get as much support as possible... Cheers Tim

Hullo! Tim from Absolute Radio here! Please continue to vote guys - you can vote for as many songs as you like. (But only each song once!) There's so many good songs in the running for this - Coldplay are doing well, but I think you guys can help them do better! Cheers, Tim.

Last song is up now, enjoy! http://www.absoluteradio.co.uk/music/artists/coldplay/article/3594.html The vids are also up on our youtube account: http://www.youtube.com/absoluteradio - I'll put the last video in the Chris Martin playlist when I get in to work tomorrow. Tootleoo.

Look at that Jenjie go, embedding vids like a pro! I'm off for now, too much digging snow today has left me shattered! I think we're putting up another track this week, so do keep checking back.

Oh by the way, if you want to embed videos on the Absolute Radio website, when you play a video, if you see the controls at the bottom, they have a green "share" icon on the far right of the controls. Click on that and it'll give you an embed code that you can use on various sites. :) Hope someone finds that useful.

Hey ladies and gents, I'm baaaaack! I put The Scientist session video up a little bit early for you to watch. I'm meant to do it tomorrow morning, but I thought sod it, you're all rather nice, have it already! http://www.absoluteradio.co.uk/music/artists/coldplay/article/3594.html Sadly, I live outside of London and from the snow at my house, it was over 10 inches deep, so I didn't make it in today either, literally all the trains were cancelled. Well enough about me, enjoy The Scientist! :D

Through a very complicated web of getting people at work to do things for those of us who didn't make it in, and us forcing our computers to allow us to work from home, we bring you the session video of Viva La Vida and an interview with Chris. (Trust me, this has been a weird morning!) http://www.absoluteradio.co.uk/music/artists/coldplay/article/3594.html He's so funny, I never realised he had such a wicked sense of humour! We are going to have more session track videos throughout the week. :)

Hey guys, Tim from Absolute Radio here! The snow has stopped most of us in the digital media team from Absolute Radio getting into work! We were going to encode the session and interview video and get it up on the site this morning, but obviously the white stuff has got in the way! We're trying to co-ordinate with the people who made it in to work to get it sorted, so it's taking a little longer than we thought. Sit tight, we're going to try and get it up by the end of the day.

Well, I went for a little stalk and I didn't see Chris... I only saw Ross kemp (?!) I'm gonna get on with some work now, all this excitement has left me a bit behind with stuff! Speak to you all later. :cool:

Brb... gone to stalk.

Different stations get different permissions. Sometimes it's a legal issue, sometimes it's the band's preference, sometime it's the label's. I don't really know much more than that.

Seriously, we've had much worse before, you guys aren't so bad! I'm a manic fan of several bands, I've cried on my favourite rock-star... I understand that caring for your band is quite an all-consuming thing! I figure it's better for me to come and explain stuff from our perspective so you don't think think we're just keeping Chris all to ourselves, haha. We aren't corporate baddies or flicked a switch to spite the fans, we were just allowed to live webcast the one track. Damn, wish I could go down and stalk Chris a bit...

Were they webcast live?

Hey, thanks! I know people get pretty het up, we had to put an awful lot of work into getting something like this to even work at all! We're not a 'massive' station or company, so doing something like this is a big effort. And there are limitations that we just have to adhere to, cos them's the breaks, that's just how "the business" is. It's a little discouraging to see people being a bit rude, but it's cool, I understand, everyone's just excited and stuff. :) I'll come back and give you all a shout when the vids are on the site, we'll be sorting them out and uploading them on Monday to absoluteradio.co.uk/coldplay.

it's the same with pretty much all bands. :)

The people watching the session will still be in there, they'll probably have been asked to turn phones off. ;)

They'll be broadcast next week. Whenever a band comes in to play, espcially a big band, the recordings of the song require approval by the label/artist before transmission. It's just the way it is in the business. We were very lucky to get a competely live broadcast at all.

RIGHT! Since I work at Absolute Radio, I shall talk you through... -We only had permission to live webcast one song. -You can watch the video of the FULL session and interview from Monday at Absoluteradio.co.uk/coldplay

Oh gotcha! Well the vid is a teeny bit behind innit, On mine, Chris just sat down.

Ey? Are you listening to the radio too? You only need to be watching it through this page: http://www.absoluteradio.co.uk/music/sessions/livevideo.html The guy in the suit who keeps popping up is one of our IT fellas.

Did you see the cameras flicking between the 2 rooms? :)

Chris wont be in that room. Chris will be playing in a room next door, which is all set up with proper cameras and more space. :)