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16.06: Aladeen of Wadiya has tweeted #coldplayblog asking: "how far are unreserved seating from the stage? want the best view but whether to stand or sit". We made you a diagram... In short, some of it is really quite near the stage, but some of it is further away.

In all these pics it looks like it's mid-winter and all covered in snow :lol:

15.57: The view from the back of the Emirates. It's a big ol' place.

Haha thanks, sounds great! :lol:

15.47: Coldplay are not using the dressing rooms which Arsenal football players (the dressing rooms are in corporate boxes behind the stage), but we did pop out heads into the real dressing rooms to take a couple of snaps... Amazing to imagine the buzz in there are five to three on a Saturday afternoon....

At least there aren't any pics of all sorts of phones this time :lol:

15.41: Here's the tunnel which Arsenal's players run in and out of on match days.

I'm live blogging on my own, lol :lol: A-man is on a roll though

15:34: An abandoned heart we saw down by the seats...

15.31: BREAKING NEWS FROM THE EMIRATES! The sun has just poked its head out of the clouds for the first time today...

15.29: And here's the view from the B-stage at the end of the runway thingy.

15.20: The view which Chris will have from the stage later (only with 58,000 people filling the space).

good morning! Although it's already well in the afternoon here ;)

15.19: Charlotte East has tweeted #coldplayblog: "What time did peope get there to start queuing for unreserved seats/standing?! Going Monday and want a rough estimate :D" We got here at around 1pm this afternoon and there were already quite a lot of people here (they looked like they'd come well prepared with picnics and rugs and wotnot).

15.16: Claudia Bowman ‏has tweeted #coldplayblog to ask, "whens the panorama from last night going up?" Well, Roadie #42 didn't get home until 3.15am last night (!) but we spoke to him earlier and he said he should be able to get it sorted this afternoon. We'll post it as soon as we have it.

15.11: OK, so here's the view from behind the stage, on the route that the band will take to it later on...

15.06: And we're back. Photos incoming...

14.43: Right, here's a photo of Chris's wardrobe case from the band's dressing room. And we're going to leave you with that for a few minutes while we shoot of to take some photos inside the stadium. Back soon with lots of pics. Keep tweeting your thoughts / questions to #coldplayblog in the meantime...

yay! Glad it worked :D

14.39: Another couple of half decent photos from last night...

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14:36: Kamilė just tweeted #coldplayblog to ask, "what exactly happen with Princess of China yesterday? that was confusing over the livestream". Kamilė is referring to Chris deciding to start the song again, after there was an issue with the video screens. It was worth it, though. The song second time round would've blown the roof off (if the Emirates had one).

14.33: Just going through the rest of our photos from last night's show. Lots of them are *terrible*. But this one (from Lovers In Japan, if memory serves) is quite good.

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14.30: Joshua Lutzno has tweeted #coldplayblog to ask, "When playing consecutive gigs in the same stadium, is there a need for soundcheck on the 2nd night?" Well, the sound certainly will be checked - and has been just now - but the band don't actually need to be here to do it today, as these days you can play out a top quality, multitrack recording of last night's show over the PA, to recreate the show exactly. The instruments will, of course, also be checked. In fact, we just heard somebody playing a song called Blue Is The Colour, on an electric guitar - that song being the anthem of another English football team, Man City. Prime suspect is Matt McGinn.