Having settled their copyright dispute with Joe Satriani, the Coldplay team presumably have some spare time in their schedule to deal with another claim, so they'll be pleased to hear that another artist is now accusing them of being rip off merchants. I'm not sure this is actually going legal, but the claimant sounds a little pissed off.
The latest claim isn't related to a Chris Martin-penned song, but to the video for their track 'Strawberry Swing', which was released as a single last week, of course. Singer songwriter Andy J Gallagher says that the promo for the track - which has been described as "groundbreaking new video" by Coldplay's people - is incredibly similar to one he made for his song 'Something Else' last year. You can view the two vids at the YouTube links below and make up your own mind as to whether you agree with him. They certainly both have the stop animation chalk thing going on.
Meanwhile, here's what Gallagher has to say about it: "While I can't say they copied me, there are an awful lot of similarities between my video and theirs. I think it's unfair that 'Strawberry Swing' will probably be nominated for numerous awards and is being universally-acclaimed as groundbreaking, when Owen Trevor had virtually the same idea at least a year before".