Coldplay face new plagiarism claim?

Coldplay are reportedly facing another accusation of plagiarism from a singer who alleges that the band's new video is "awfully similar" to a previous release.

The rockers recently reached a settlement over their highly-publicised copyright dispute with guitarist Joe Satriani regarding their single 'Viva La Vida'.

However, singer-songwriter Andy J. Gallagher has now come forward to suggest that the group copied his idea in their video for new single 'Strawberry Swing', which was made using stop-animation and features singer Chris Martin acting alongside chalk drawings.

Gallagher claimed that it bears similarities to his music video for 'Something Else', which he released last year.

He told CMU Music: "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 ['Something Else' director] Owen Trevor had virtually the same idea at least a year before."