Bring Me the Horizon trashing Coldplay's table at the NME Awards wasn't a 'dirty protest'

Frontman Oli Sykes trashed Coldplay's table during a performance the awards ceremony, held at London's O2 Academy Brixton

Bring Me the Horizon's Oli Sykes on Coldplay's table (PA)

For anyone who was hoping Bring Me the Horizon's NME Awards stunt was a show of solidarity with the recent anti-Coldplay headlining Glastonbury petition, they're set to be quite disappointed.

The Sheffield rockers became the talk of the ceremony, held at London's O2 Academy Brixton, after an incident during their live performance of 'Happy Song'; which saw frontman Oli Sykes leap up onto Coldplay's table and proceed to bring the entire thing crashing down.

However, the band have now clarified to the NME that the incident wasn't an intentional dig at Coldplay, recipients of the night's Godlike Genius award. "I don't think [Oli] was aiming for Coldplay," stated keyboardist Jordan Fish. "It was just whoever was nearest, it [just] happened to be Coldplay."

"You know when you know no-one is really going to care about your band if you do what you usually do," he further told BBC Newsbeat. "It was one of them things where you're going to have to make an impression somehow. It wasn't a dirty protest."

Bring Me the Horizon's live performance followed their win for the NME Innovation Award. Coldplay's Chris Martin stated he'd never heard of the band before but thought the performance was "great, very rock n' roll."