The music industry is mourning the deaths of plugger Scott Piering and Concorde International Artistes' Louis Parker who both died last week after battles with cancer.

Piering, a pioneer of independent plugging with a track record that included promoting releases by the likes of New Order, Pulp, The Smiths and The Verve, died on January 22 just three days after marrying his girlfriend Hil, while Concorde managing director Parker died last Wednesday.

Parker set up Concorde 10 years ago having ...