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Coldplay 'get £2m for New Year's Eve gig'

Published Saturday, Dec 31 2011, 10:37 GMT | By Colin Daniels | 9 comments

Coldplay will earn a reported £2m ($3.1m) for playing a New Year's Eve gig later tonight (Saturday).

The band will play 12 songs at the Volvo Ocean Race in Abu Dhabi after Emir Sheikh Khalifa personally invited them.

Coldplay also secured free VIP tickets to watch Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic at the World Tennis Championship exhibition, a £3,000-a-night suite at Emirates Palace and a helicopter to and from the show.

"Each band member has his own dressing room with fresh food supplies after every costume change, and new waiters to serve them chicken and vegetable shawarmas," a source told The Mirror.

Platinum table tickets for the show cost £4,300, which includes champagne, spirits and parking,

Coldplay were named 'Best Rock Band of 2011' in Digital Spy's end-of-year poll.

Chris Martin recently revealed that he threw an intruder out of his garden after finding him singing Coldplay songs.

Watch the video for Coldplay's 'Paradise' below:

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