Windswept head quits 10-year post.

Loading independent publisher Bob Grace has left his post as Windswept Music's UK managing director a decade after setting up the London operation.

Grace, one of the UK's most successful indie music publishers with signings down the years including the Spice Girls and Craig David, has been replaced as head of Windswept's management team by creative director Peter McCamley and head of finance Paul Flynn.

McCamley, who has been with Windswept for seven years, insists the split is entirely amicable. "Bob has left and all I can say is he's considering other options at the moment and now I'm running the company," he says.

Grace leaves Windswept at a notably busy time for the publisher, which is represented on both Beyonce Knowles' album Dangerously In Love--which was expected yesterday (Sunday) to debut at number one in the UK--and the Blazin' Squad single We Just Bo Dreamin', which was set to chart inside the Top Three. It co-published the last Blue and Busted ...