is by contrast the down-market section, with slightly less traffic. Businesses that have been established in this stretch of King Street include cafés, antique shops and assorted small businesses. The southern end of South King Street, between Alice Street and St Peters railway station, features three theatres (New Theatre, King Street Theatre and Sydney Independent Theatre Company) and three pubs (Union Hotel, Botany View Hotel and Sydney Park Hotel). In popular culture The 1985 song "King St" by John Kennedy's Love Gone Wrong references the street and name-checks various local landmarks and characters of the time including the Coles' New World supermarket (which occupied the building which is now the Dendy Cinemas), "The Wire Man" (a local eccentric who collected wire coat hangers and scrap metal), Maurice's Lebanese restaurant (still extant) and The Hub cinema (which was operating as a pornographic cinema at the time). The music video features extensive footage of King St as it looked in 1985. The 1999 Australian drama film Erskineville Kings starring Marty Denniss and Hugh Jackman features King Street in its opening sequence. The 2006 Australian drama film Candy starring Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish features Advance Loan Office on King Street, in the scene where the female lead prostitutes herself for money to fund her and her boyfriend's drug addiction. The Whitlams band became popular for its performances at The Sandringham Hotel on King Street King Street is referenced in The Lemonheads song My Drug Buddy In 2013, Sydney band Sticky Fingers filmed a music video for their song Australia Street on King Street between Church and Brown Streets In June 2014, English band Coldplay filmed a music video for their song A Sky Full of Stars on King Street between Mary and Australia Streets See also References 1. . Streets in Sydney Inner West Newtown, New South Wales