Music Wire: Bandier to stop working for the Brits and begin working for the Germans and the Japanese

-Shomari Hines As EMI Music Publishing loses, Sony ATV gains, or at least so they say. Martin Bandier, the well respected music publishing exec is said to be in talks to take the top job at Sony ATV. Banider was rumored to be on Edgar Bronfman's mind but we guess that didn't play out. As part of the deal, which is expected to be announced today, sources said that Bandier is also making an investment in Sony ATV - a joint venture between Sony Corp. and trusts formed by singer Michael Jackson - that will allow him to share in the unit's growth. Sources cautioned, however, that Bandier wasn't taking an equity stake in the publisher, which owns the rights to 400,000 songs from acts like Fall Out Boy and John Mayer. Guess current Sony ATV CEO David Hockman will leave immediately after they give his job away and issue some kind of statement that he wants to spend more time on other things, you know, the default statement made by an exec being shit canned. Then again we could be wrong. Maybe the guy just wants to kick back a bit. Naaah he is being shit canned. STRIKE UP THE 'BAND'IER AT SONY ATV [NYP]