Mr Summers, who also represents Snow Patrol, says he will ask Guy Hands, Terra Firma's boss, why the band should deliver a new album "when EMI is cutting back on the marketing and is in financial difficulty", at a meeting in Kensington today.

The band are are due to release the follow-up to 1997's 'Urban Hymns' this spring. - more on this story

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