Coldplay an army of their most devoted fans marched through the streets of Sydney today as part of a shoot for the British pop rock band’s latest music video.

Ahead of landing Down Under for a short promotional tour for their latest album, Ghost Stories, Coldplay’s manager Phil Harvey put a public call out to Aussie fans yesterday, through the band’s twitter, to appear in the video for the band’s new single, Avicii team-up ‘A Sky Full Of Stars’.


The first 250 lucky fans to heed the call were gathered at the appointed meeting spot, at the corner of Lennox and Australia Street in the inner-west Sydney suburb of Newtown, where the herded army of fans were given direction for their part in the clip, as Sydney Morning Herald reports.

After delays – due to a combination of a media scrum over the surprise video shoot and burst water main slowing already blocked traffic – the Coldplay extras were directed to march behind frontman Chris Martin and his musical cohorts, all dressed as and individually colourful one-man band, down King Street as star-shaped confetti rained down all around them. 


The band and 250 extras were then filmed singing and cavorting outside local venue, The Hub (a former movie theatre currently undergoing a $500,000 renovation to become a 1,500 capacity theatre and live music space), in front a mural of Martin Luther King mural before Martin led a chorus atop a podium positioned outside the local police station.


Much of the film shoot was captured in on social media, with all manner of on-site tweets and Instagrams (many compiled under the hashtag #ASFOSvideo by Buzzfeed) giving a sense of the spectacle of one of the world’s most recognisable bands attempting a guerilla film shoot in the streets of Sydney. View a selection below.       

Coldplay will record a private TV performance for the Max Sessions tomorrow night in Sydney before playing an ‘intimate’ concert at Sydney’s Enmore Theatre this Thursday. But don’t bother looking for tickets, the one-off show sold out in less than three minutes (as previously reported) after going on sale last month.

It’s the band’s first visit Down Under since their 2012 Mylo Xyloto tour, and first since releasing Ghost Stories; “the closest the four-piece have come to a Chris Martin solo album… and a Chris Martin break-up solo album, at that,” as our Tone Deaf reviewer wrote in our ‘Hit or Shit?’ feature review.



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