The thing about Duran... that gives you the ability to bring all that opportunity back into your life.

Music is escapism, it's entertainment.

I discovered that it was a lonely world being a solo artist. Then I started working with another solo artist, Rod Stewart, and he used to tell me how lonely he was!

You want to have stability in the commercial aspect of your operation.

I am pleased with the rapid progress we have made in addressing the key issues and costs in our business and we will continue to restructure the group over the next few weeks and months,

I am well aware that Sanctuary has disappointed the market significantly this year and, with hindsight, it is clear we grew too fast.

He's someone who has a tremendous amount of experience in dealing with these things.

It was mind-blowing. It was a small place with 2,000 standing-up tickets. It's great to have your band back and working and playing again, people have been so generous.

The board is determined to steer the company, which has an extremely strong roster of artists and a strong 30-year track record, back to a profitable trading position and back to sustainable long term growth.

Everybody around this table has been hurt (by canker). We need to look beyond the four corners of this table.