Stennett was part of the Musexpo managers forum - called From The Eye Of the Storm - yesterday afternoon, alongside Cerne Canning, Bruce Garfield, Danny Rogers and Ulysses Huppauff, managers of Franz Ferdinand, Nadine Coyle, the Temper Trap and Apocalyptica respectively.

Despite the afternoon starting on a note of optimism, talk soon turned to falling record sales and what this means to managers and their bands.

Stennett, partner in Sugababes' management firm SSB, said that there has been a massive ...