Sydney band Sticky Fingers has teased Coldplay for copying them by shooting the video clip for A Sky Full of Stars along King Street - and called the group's fans "dorks" for filming themselves walking beside lead singer Chris Martin.

"My first reaction when I saw it was I just laughed," says Sticky Fingers' bass player Paddy Cornwall. "I thought it was a shame for the lads from Coldplay because they could have had a killer clip but they ended up with this cheeseball video because their fans are such dorks they don't know how to live in the moment or have real-time fun.

"The two clips have really different vibes, we had a bag of laughs but with theirs, the fans were way too eager to show themselves off and prove to their friends they were having a bag of laughs.

"You're already getting a cameo role in your favourite band's video clip but you have to go further and film yourself and everything. It's boring and it's a bit sad."