Supergrass Leaving EMI, Start New Label

Supergrass is just the latest act leaving EMI, others include Radiohead Rolling Stones, and Paul McCartney. The band's bassist who is also the managing director of the new label they have started called Supergrass Records, Micky Quinn told BBC 6Music: "We had a pretty good run with Parlophone when we were signed to them, but it's more a case that Parlophone has changed so much over the past year, A lot of people seem to have left the company that were there for a long time, that we respected. For whatever reason, we both came to the decision that it's probably better if we weren't signed to them any more. That was the other thing being signed to a major label - we saw a lot of wastage of money and a lot of things that seemed a bit pointless at the time. When you're footing the bill you pull your horns in. In a lot ways that makes you more creative." The band has been payin more attention to their finances more closely. There have been a lot of bands leaving EMI after the Terra Firma acquisition of the label. Other artists that are rumoured to be leaving the label include Coldplay.

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