December 17th, 2009

If current trends prevail U2‘s outspoken guitarist The Edge predicts the demise of the record industry as we know it. He made these rather gloomy statements during a recent interview with Hot Press who are gearing up for their 2010 Annual issue, out Friday.

Commenting on the impact of the world wide web on the music industry, the rock legend sounds the alarm bells.

John Lydon is annoyed and has no problem with letting the music world know about it. The Sex Pistol legend, who is currently reforming his other band Public Image Ltd, complains that bands don’t credit his style as influencing them enough.

‘Mr Rotten’ explains : “I’m still hearing records coming out that mimic our style, but they don’t give us credit.

Coveted singer songwriter Laura Marling is taking her show on the road and has scheduled the start of her UK/Ireland tour for April 2010.

Marling will start off in Belfast on April 9 and head on to Dublin before returning to the UK for the rest of her shows