Weller on the look out for deal

Paul Weller has parted company with half Sony owned Independiente after a ten year relationship. Announcing the break on his website Weller said: "I have parted company with Independiente Records. They decided not to take up the next option so I am free (but not cheap) once again. I'm not upset or angry about it at all, it's time to move on for me anyway. I've been with Go!/Independiente for over 10 years, had good tunes and sold lots of records, but the state of play at record companies these days is that if you don't sell f** millions it's deemed a failure." The logic behind the decision to drop Weller is unclear given that his most recent album ‘Illumination’ went to number one when released last September.