Monday 25th January

Coldplay, Arctic Monkeys and The Chemical Brothers are among the musicians teaming up with the organisers of the Glastonbury Festival to raise money for Haiti.

Items donated by the stars will be auctioned off and the proceeds will go to help those affected by the devastating earthquake.

Alex Turner has donated the guitar used in the video for ‘I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor’, while Chris Martin has offered a signed Viva La Vida tourjacket.

Emily Eavis, Glastonbury organiser, said: “We felt it was important to do whatever we could to help as quickly as possible.

“I visited Haiti in 2002 and it’s the poorest place I’ve ever been by a long way.

“It seems doubly unfair that it should be hit by such a devastating earthquake, especially after the hurricanes of the last two years.”

The Kooks, The Magic Numbers and Basement Jaxx are also donating goods for the auction, which runs for 10 days and will close at 9am on Tuesday 2nd February.

Kings of Leon drummer Nathan Followill has dismissed reports that the band is set to split from its record label.

It had been thought that the Nashville foursome are looking for a better financial deal and were considering leaving current label Columbia.

However, drummer Followill explained on his Twitter page: “Once again there is another rumour circulating about KOL.

“We are not leaving our record label. We are happy where we are now let’s get drunk.”

The band are currently working on their fifth album, the follow-up to 2008’s ‘Only by the Night’.

Finally, Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien has criticised calls suggesting piracy is killing music.

Speaking to Midem, O’Brien explained that pirates’ money still goes into the business and that the industry needs to catch up to the modern age.

“I have a problem when people in the industry say ‘it’s killing the industry, it’s the thing that’s ripping us apart’.

“I don’t actually believe it is… [Pirates] might not buy an album, but they’re spending their money buying concert tickets, a t-shirt, whatever.”

“It’s an analogue business model in a digital era. The business model has to change.

“You’ve got to license out more music – have more Spotifys, more websites selling more music. You’ve got to make it slightly cheaper to get music in order to compete with the peer-to-peers.”

Radiohead are in the studio at the moment recording their eighth album.