Despite IMPALA's consistent and headline-grabbing opposition to the proposed £1.2bn Universal Music takeover of EMI, the EU indie label group's co-president Patrick Zelnik has tonight publicly backed the acquisition.

In a new first-person opinion piece entitled 'A Universal/EMI merger could rescue the music business', Zelnik writes:

"For 12 years at IMPALA... I have fought concentration in the music industry. However, as Universal Music awaits regulators' verdict on its £1.2bn bid for EMI's recorded music division, I think it could be ...