Alan McGee
Kick Out the Jams: The Story of XFM review – pioneering 90s indie radio remembered
Documentary charts the station’s rise from pirate outfit to Britpop champion, featuring alumni including Ricky Gervais and Steve Lamacq
Leslie Felperin
31, Aug, 2022 @12:00 PM
Creation myths: Alan McGee tells the real story of those wild Britpop years
The maverick label boss on why he didn’t let the truth get in the way of a good movie … and why he may owe an apology to Tony Blair
Vanessa Thorpe
20, Mar, 2021 @8:30 PM
Creation Stories review – generic biopic of record label supremo Alan McGee
Ewen Bremner stars as the fiery Scots label boss in this cliche-ridden drama co-written by Irvine Welsh
Simran Hans
20, Mar, 2021 @3:00 PM
One to watch: the Clockworks
Alan McGee signed the Galway four-piece on the strength of the best rehearsal he’d seen since Oasis. Watch this space
Phil Mongredien
20, Mar, 2021 @2:00 PM
'It's all psychedelic!' The film about Alan McGee's rocking, rolling life
He launched Oasis and Primal Scream, then practiced occult magic in Wales. Nick Moran and Ewen Bremner explain how they recreated McGee’s life for biopic Creation Stories
John Harris
18, Mar, 2021 @12:00 PM
Creation Stories review – mythmaking and megalomania in likable Alan McGee biopic
Irvine Welsh’s cracking adaption of an autobiography by the ‘President of Pop’ flashes from My Bloody Valentine to his discovery of Oasis
Cath Clarke
18, Mar, 2021 @9:00 AM
Tenement Kid: Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie to publish memoir
Book charts the singer’s journey from his childhood in Glasgow to his band’s breakthrough 1991 album Screamadelica and their notorious live shows
Laura Snapes
10, Mar, 2021 @10:30 AM
Twisting my melon, man! The baggy, brilliant indie-rave summer of 1990
As the new decade dawned, indie and rave collided and a seismic party began. Bands from the Happy Mondays to Primal Scream relive that explosion of pills, thrills and endless possibilities
Joe Muggs
07, Jul, 2020 @5:00 AM
Straight-talking, honest music: why I'd rather listen to a warts-and-all box set
Box sets tend to airbrush a label’s history with hit after hit, but Creation and Ork Records’ new compilations take you on an uneven yet fascinating journey
Michael Hann
06, Oct, 2015 @4:58 PM
Alan McGee: 'We didn't realise that we were voting in the Hugo Boss version of the Tories'
The founder of Creation records on New Labour, riotous gigs and his passion for UFO research
Mark Beaumont
07, Nov, 2013 @5:15 PM
Creation Records' Alan McGee to launch new label – 359 Music
Music mogul behind Creation Records and Poptones says his 'music buzz' returned after working on Tokyo Rocks festival
Dan Martin
08, May, 2013 @10:04 AM
Alan McGee planning to recreate Creation
Indie mogul says 'music needs a kick in the balls' and he may revive his legendary label to deliver the blow
Sean Michaels
12, Sep, 2012 @10:54 AM
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