This Feeling Joins Forces With Alan McGee's 359 Music

THIS FEELING JOINS FORCES WITH LEGENDARY CREATION BOSS ALAN McGEE'S 359 MUSIC FOR LANDMARK NIGHT OF LIVE MUSIC.

Queen of Hoxton, London, Saturday November 9th / 8pm - 2am

‘London’s most rock ‘n’ roll night out’ and ‘where to see future next big things in advance’ The Evening Standard

He changed the face of British music when he discovered Oasis in a Scottish club but record boss Alan McGee prefers the quiet life these days. McGee, who launched the careers of a host of big names on his Creation label, is out of retirement but is running his new venture – 359 Records. McGee, the man responsible for giving us Oasis, Primal Scream, The Jesus And Mary Chain, Super Furry Animals, to name but a few is joining forces with London's most rock and roll night out This Feeling showcasing the the cream of the crop from the legendary Creation founder's new label 359 Music. All the performers are releasing debut albums as we speak and expected to do big things so don't miss a unique opportunity to witness these four supremely talented acts plus a DJ set from Alan's friends Vicky McClure (This Is England) & Jonathan Owen (Svegali) and This Feeling resident DJ's.

Speaking about This Feeling, Alan McGee said: "This Feeling is the best club in the UK for rock'n'roll music. They are doing a great job of highlighting and supporting new bands. They believe in UK guitar music and are doing all they can to get it out there."

Alan's autobiography ‘Creation Stories: Riots, Raves and Running a Label’ which tells the story from the early days of the label, Oasis' world domination to the demise of Creation. That's in the past though, 359 is Alan's future...

Playing 'live' are:

JOHN LENNON McCULLAGH

Just fifteen years of age, rarely has a more natural talent been seen and John's acoustic-strumming, harmonica-wielding talents have been impressing the likes of Sheffield legend Richard Hawley ('The real deal'), Jake Bugg and Courtney Love ('who is this fifteen-year-old doing Dylan better than Dylan?!').

For a free download from John's debut album 'North South Divide' go to http://www.thisfeeling.co.uk/bands/229-john-lennon-mccullagh-/

CHRIS GRANT

Every song immerses you in his world and Chris performs straight from the heart with enough talent to follow in the footsteps of great Liverpudlian bands like Echo & The Bunnymen and The La's.

For a free download from Chris's debut album 'It's Not About War' go to http://www.thisfeeling.co.uk/bands/231-chris-grant/

MINERAL

With members from Dublin and Paris and influences ranging from The Pixies to Kraftwerk to The Beach Boys, as well as the best in French music (Air, Daft Punk), Mineral have been attracting worldwide interest with their hugely inventive brand of indie/electronica. Romantic and psychedelic in equal measure with ice cool vocals set against a backdrop of classy, thumping electro, expect an all-out sensory assault and a magnificent mash-up of styles that almost defies definition.

For a free download from Mineral's debut album 'Plastic Ekphrastic' go to http://www.thisfeeling.co.uk/bands/230-mineral/

REBECCA CLOSURE

One of the most passionate performers you'll ever witness, the enigmatic Rebecca Closure combines true musical flair with songwriting that's dizzyingly imaginative. From pumping 80s-tinged disco to freaky, psychedelic electro funk, this hugely talented and slightly surreal songstress makes music that's utterly compelling.

For a free download from Rebecca Closure's debut album go to http://www.thisfeeling.co.uk/bands/232-rebecca-closure/

Queen of Hoxton London (8pm to 2am, November 9th) – John Lennon McCullagh (live), Chris Grant (live), Mineral (live), Rebecca Closure (live)

Tickets £5 advance, £6 before 9pm, £8 after

Adv tickets, info and exclusive free downloads for at www.thisfeeling.co.uk

Alan McGee Says Oasis Will Be Back At Some Point

Alan McGee made his name and fortune by signing what was then an unknown band from Manchester called Oasis.

Collectively, their albums sold tens of millions of copies and made Creation - McGee's record label - famous.

He became a face of Britpop and a regular at No 10 - but financial problems led to McGee selling his company and personal problems led to issues with drink and drugs.

Now the 53-year-old Glaswegian is back, with a new label and a new life and still has plenty to say about the industry.

Reflecting on the future of Oasis, McGee told the BBC's arts editor, Will Gompertz: "Oasis will come back at some point... if they get back together it will be for a mega-bucks tour."

Source: www.source.co.uk

Alan McGee On Signing Oasis 20 Years Ago

Excerpt from The Guardian

Alan McGee on Creation, Oasis and cashflow – a classic from the vaults

It's 20 years since Alan McGee stepped into Glasgow King Tuts and signed Oasis. Time to visit 1994 via Rock's Backpages and find out what the Creation Records founder was thinking …

Alan McGee founded Creation Records 10 years ago. Now this former British Rail clerk's labour of love is a floatable proposition, with nearly half of its shares owned by Sony. McGee surprised many when he got into bed with the company, not least because he was supposedly no fan of corporate structures. But that may simply be a sentimental view, judging by the candid assessment he gives over coffee at the Dome, Regent Street.

"In September 1992, I got fed up with selling 200,000 Primal Scream records in England and 18,000 in Germany," says McGee. "I got tired of selling only 3,000 Bandwagonesques there. It's all about distribution. If you're signed to some shit fuckin' indie, no matter what it does for your credibility, it does nothing to promote your group. Sony help us get worldwide distribution. At the moment, we're still getting some crap sales, but the potential is there. I've sold Sony 49%, which makes them feel good, but I'm very loyal to our bands. I've got their best interests at heart.

"The truth is that, without financial backing, it is now very hard to exist in England, but when I've gone in to Sony and said: 'Look, you need to help us with so-and-so,' they've always done it. And they don't talk to me about the music we put out, ever."

In 1984, McGee was looking after a young and irascible Jesus and Mary Chain. Like his proteges, McGee's clothes may be sharper 10 years on, but he hasn't really changed that much, and he remains a patron to like-minded fanatics such as Bobby Gillespie, the Jazz Butcher, Bill "the Man" Drummond and Lawrence from Felt/Denim.

In celebration of Creation's first decade, McGee has gathered together his 10 most personal mementoes. It comes as no surprise that what feature most among his choices are items that spark off memories of liaisons with some of rock's greatest mavericks.

OASIS

"This group, Oasis, are the one recent thing that made me go: 'Fuckin' hell, I still believe in rock'n'roll.' I saw them last year and it was a complete fluke. I was at an 18 Wheeler show in Glasgow at King Tut's Wah-Wah Hut. Third on the bill were a band from Manchester. They were friends of Oasis and they'd told the band they could play fourth on the bill. So Oasis hired a van and drove up from Manchester with their mates and when they arrived the promoter says: 'No. Fuck off.' And they're saying: 'Look, it's cost us £200 to hire the van and equipment and get here. If you don't let us play, we'll smash your club up. There's 10 of us and only two security …'

"So the promoter lets them play. Now, I wouldn't have got to see them normally, because when a band of mine's playing I usually get in five minutes before they come on stage. However, because I'd gone with my sister Susan, who doesn't happen to own a watch, I got there two hours early. I witnessed all the shenanigans, so I wanted to see what they were like.

"The first song was really good. Then the second was incredible. By the time they did this fantastic version of I Am the Walrus, I'd decided I've got to sign this group, now. I said: 'Do you have a record deal? Do you want one? I wanna do it.' Eventually they had 20 record companies offering them deals and at the last minute Mother Records, owned by U2, phoned and said: 'We'll offer double what McGee is offering.'

"The music is a cross between the Kinks, Stone Roses and the Who, and the cover of this tape, which is incredibly rare, only 10 ever made, is important because it's a Union Jack going down the toilet. That sums up our country at the moment. I don't want to herald them too much, but they're already one of my favourite groups. Seeing them is what seeing the Stones must have been like in the early days. Brutal, exciting, arrogant."

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Alan McGee And Pete MacLeod In Talks To Make Sweet Music

Scottish singer / songwriter Pete MacLeod, seems set for even greater success on the back of his recent tour in Hamburg with gigs across the UK's 02 venues in  the coming months.

The musician and his work have long been admired by Alan McGee, who famously founded Creation records and now appears to be itching to set up another label, as Pete explains:

"Alan and I had been talking all week about him getting back into  the music business and starting another label, and I could tell he really had that fire in his belly again.

"We've talked about it before but he's told me his intentions are to get me signed to his new venture - I can't say much more than that at the moment but I do know that Alan won't be calling it Creation. I broke the news on twitter about us planning to work together and go back into the music business and it was almost instantly picked up by the press."

In the meantime, Pete is in the process off signing a single deal with a German label. Something that Alan McGee fully endorses in a recent email to Pete:

"Whatever form my new record company will take I can say I can't see it being called Creation.

"In the meantime, work with this dude and if you need me to come over and DJ the launch for single I am in as long term I want to work with you when we know what we are inventing as a business model."

It's good news for Pete following a year of turmoil while his father battled cancer. Pete had returned to Scotland when he heard the news and wrote 'Rolling Stone' for his dad who had inspired so much of his music. The single was sold as a way to raise money and awareness for Cancer Research UK; it was named BBC Radio Scotland single of the month by Janice Forsyth and entered into Q magazine's top 50 downloads of the month.

Sadly, Pete's dad lost his brave battle with the disease in June, but Pete has no doubt that his father's influence and guidance will live on in the form of his music for many years to come.

"My dad always believed in my music and never stopped encouraging me to write and play the music I love. While I'm sorry that he won't see this next stage in my career, I know he'll always be with me and that's what keeps me going."

Liam Gallagher's Real Character Revealed By Alan McGee

Middle age creeps up on us all – even rock stars.

Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher is celebrating his 40th birthday today – leaving his fans feeling a little old. The Manchester City fan kicked off festivities with a high-spirited trip to the Bernabeu this week where his beloved team lost 3-2 to home side Real Madrid. Liam got a ticking off from local cops for getting lairy.

Liam’s music career started when he joined his school mate Paul McGuigan’s band The Rain as a teenager. They changed the name to Oasis and were joined by Liam’s brother Noel.

They played their first gig in August 1991.

The group went on to get eight UK No1 singles and seven No1 albums before splitting in August 2009.

Liam is still touring with his band Beady Eye and is at loggerheads with Noel.

Here, the man who gave Oasis their first record deal pays tribute to Liam – and we revisit some of the mouthy star’s most memorable quotes.

There's a story I want to tell about Liam which sums the man up to me. Everyone’s got an idea of what he’s like. But to me the real Liam is a courteous gentleman.

I was one of the first casualties of the Nineties scene. After partying straight for seven years, I spent nine months in rehab.

When I got clean I came back to London around October 1994 really shaken up. You’d think that people would welcome you back with open arms. But most people were too embarrassed to speak to me. I was the elephant in the living room.

The one person who came up and spent two hours talking to me was Liam. It was in December 1994, the night after Oasis had recorded Jools Holland, with the suits on and the orchestra.

Even people from my own record company, Creation, didn’t know what to say. But Liam was the one to say, “Are you all right?” For that I will always love him.

He was just a kid at that point and he was always being bothered by people coming up to him. But all he cared about was checking that I was OK. In a sense that showed real balls. That, to me, shows the real guy who is often misrepresented.

It’s a total cliché but you are only as old as you feel. I doubt I’ll ever grow up properly — and Liam certainly won’t either.

To me he’s like one of the old blues guys — or Paul Weller or Mick Jagger. He will be in a band until the day he dies.

The Beatles and the Rolling Stones were the first generation of rock stars and the first people that we’ve had to get used to playing gigs as older men.

 Liam will be just the same. He’ll be up on stage when he’s in his seventies — whether it’s a small gig in the 100 Club or Wembley Stadium — and he’ll be doing it because he loves music.

That’s the best compliment I can pay him — that he still loves music and will still be doing it for a long time.

Turning 40 is always a big one. When you are in your thirties you can blag it that you are still a young guy. After 40, you can’t.

 But I don’t think Liam will give a s***. He’ll put on a massive party for his close friends and it will be an excuse for a big night out.

He will live his forties like he has the rest of his life, in his own way. Good luck to him — and Happy Birthday.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds embark on a UK tour in September and will tour the US and Canada alongside Snow Patrol and Jake Bugg later this year.

More details on the above dates and more can be found by clicking here.

Alan McGee 'I'm Seriously Thinking About Restarting Creation'

Music mogul Alan McGee has said he may restart his famous Creation record label in future.

McGee, 51, famously set up Creation Records in 1983, going on to sign the likes of Oasis, My Bloody Valentine and Primal Scream.

Creation then became one of the most successful independent labels in UK history. However, the label dissolved in 1999 and McGee quit the music industry in 2008 after another of his labels, Poptones, also wound down.

But speaking to music blog Louder Than War, McGee said: "Music needs a kick in the balls and I have got the music buzz back again.

During the last few years McGee has made a feature film, 'Kubricks', has plans to write a book and has been selling off all of his music memorabilia.

But he said managing Primal Scream this summer has reinvigorated his passion for music.

"It's made me realise I do still love [music]," he said.

"But to be honest I am now seriously thinking about restarting Creation, or maybe [calling] it something else if I can find the right people at a label to work with."

McGee had previously said in May that he wanted to return to the music industry in order to "cause chaos".

However, in 2008 McGee said to BBC 6 Music: "I think [record labels] are pointless things, like dinosaurs or trams or something."

Source: www.gigwise.com

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds embark on a UK tour in September and will tour the US and Canada alongside Snow Patrol and Jake Bugg later this year.

More details on the above dates and more can be found by clicking here.

Alan Mcgee Auctioning Off Original Oasis Demo And More

Former music mogul Alan Mcgee is selling off his collection of rock memorabilia, including an original demo tape by British band Oasis.

MCGee, who founded Creation Records and discovered the Wonderwall hitmakers, is selling his prized pieces after admitting he no longer feels attached to the past.
As well as the Oasis demo from 1993, other items include never-before heard tracks by The Libertines, notes from Hole singer Courtney Love, and a book given as a birthday present by Noel Gallagher’s then-wife Meg Matthews.

MCGee tells the Manchester Evening News, "I’m just clearing out all this rock and roll rubbish from my house. I’ve no real interest in the past and have sort of moved on from the music scene - I’m more interested in books and films now.

"I’ve probably only sorted out 30 per cent of the stuff so there will be more to come in future auctions. If anyone asks if I’m selling all this stuff because I’m skint (poor), it’s not true: I live in a very big house in the country."

The lots will be auctioned off as part of a larger music memorabilia sale in Manchester, England on Saturday (25Feb12).

Source: www.contactmusic.com

Pete MacLeod To Take To The Stage This Week With Ex Oasis Guitarist

Pete MacLeod has an acoustic date in Coatbridge, Scotland coming up on February 25th.



Oasis founding member and guitarist Bonehead will be playing songs with him on stage and Alan McGee will be DJ'ing afterwards at the show.

Ticket details can be found here.

You can watch an interview here with the pair who sat down with John Dingwall to discuss how they got together for new charity single Rolling Stone and their plans for touring later this year.

Pete Macleod To Take To The Stage This Month With Ex Oasis Guitarist

Pete MacLeod has an acoustic date in Coatbridge, Scotland coming up on February 25th.



Oasis founding member and guitarist Bonehead will be playing songs with him on stage and Alan McGee will be DJ'ing afterwards at the show.

Tcket details can be found here.

Alan McGee: 'Oasis Will Play Again Together One Day'

Former Creation Records boss Alan McGee has said he believes Oasis will reform again one day.

The music mogul believes the band will return but it is unlikely to be long term. His comments come after former frontman Liam Gallagher hinted on several occasions that he would like the band to reform for the 20th anniversary of the '(What's The Story) Morning Glory?' in 2015.

His brother Noel initially expressed some interest in a reunion in four years time but has since distanced himself from any reunion.

McGee told BBC 6 Music: Even if it's not the Morning Glory tour, I think you will see Oasis play again, not as a band like [Primal] Scream but I can see them doing a huge gig for charity in a few years but they've just got to stop insulting each other.
Earlier this week, McGee scotched reports that he is writing a musical about the Britpop story. But he did say he was writing a show for the stage with Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh.

He told NME: "I don't want to give away what we're already talking about, but it's not going to be like 'Noel walked in and then Liam walks over, and then Bobby Gillespie walks in'. It's nothing to do with Creation or Britpop in that respect."

Source: www.nme.com

Noel And Liam Gallagher Were Probably On Hacking List, Says Alan McGee

Alan McGee has suggested that Noel Gallagher and Liam Gallagher were probably targeted by those hacking phones at the News of the World.

The ex-Creation Records boss, who signed the brothers' band Oasis to his label in 1993, wrote in a Huffington Post blog that it was unlikely that they were not targets.

McGee said: "If I am on the list, then personally I find it impossible to think that people like Noel and Liam won't be too as more names are revealed.

"Of course I will try to sue News International, as they deserve all of the grief and bad publicity possible for what they have done to people."

Of his name being found in Glenn Mulcaire's notebook, McGee added: "I sent Noel Gallagher a text to tell him I was on the hack list. I think he fancies being on it too.

"All they would have got from my voicemail in August 2005 were the ramblings of Courtney Love. Back then I would regularly wake up to 47 messages from her, which I would delete every day without listening to.

"If I was indeed hacked then Mulcaire would definitely have heard Courtney's messages, poor guy!"

In the blog, McGee also denied recent reports that he had owned a tooth of John Lennon's which was recently bought at an auction.

"It was a funny story, but not true," he said. "Why would I want to own John Lennon's rotten tooth?"

Lord Leveson's inquiry into press ethics continues today.

Source: www.digitalspy.co.uk

Noel Gallagher Plans To Release His Album With Amorphous Androgynous In June

It's the afternoon in Los Angeles and Noel Gallagher is a world away from his former life. It's almost two years to the day since the night in Paris when a backstage fight between Gallagher and his younger brother, Liam, ended one of Britain's biggest bands, Oasis.

For Gallagher the elder, time has flown since the messy-yet-inevitable implosion of the Mancurian band that sold more than 70 million albums.

''Someone said that to me today and I was flabbergasted that it was only two years; it feels a lot longer,'' he says. ''I've done so much in those two years. I've left the band, got married [in June, to long-time partner Sara MacDonald], had another baby [he now has two sons with MacDonald], made two albums, moved house. What else have I done? Had my hair cut short.''

Gallagher is in LA filming another video, the third, for his new musical project, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds. In July, he held a press conference to announce the band and its self-titled album.

Gallagher started recording on the night of last year's Brit Awards. ''My missus decided I was spending too much time at home and … are you married? Explain this to me. It's like, you know, it was always 'You never spend enough time at home'. And then when you do, what happens then? It's like, 'When are you going back to work?'''
On its October 17 release, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds made its debut at No.1 on the British charts, which would have no doubt pleased Gallagher the elder and peeved Gallagher the younger; the debut album from Liam's new band, Beady Eye (which features the rest of Oasis), only came in at No.3.

The initial six-date High Flying Birds tour sold out before the album's release. It opened in Dublin on October 23 and finished on Monday at the Roundhouse in London to glowing reviews - unlike the album, which, despite boasting plenty of Gallagher's trademark big-chorus songs, has received mixed responses.

Much to the delight of Oasis fans, however, the live sets have been peppered with a healthy dose of Oasis numbers - ''I wrote the songs, I'll play them,'' Gallagher says simply.

In his far-ranging press conference in July, Gallagher admitted regret at breaking up Oasis when he did but has gone on to distance himself further from the band. Liam sued his brother in early August after Noel claimed Oasis had to cancel a show in 2009 because Liam was hung-over.

In a webchat he held with friend and comedian Matt Morgan a couple of weeks later and a few days before our interview, Gallagher apologised to Liam for the slight. Liam had said all he wanted was an apology. So did he drop the lawsuit? ''You'll have to ask Liam,'' comes Noel's clipped reply. ''And tell him I said hi.''

Since EG's chat with Gallagher, the lawsuit has been dropped but the stoush continues. It was reported last week that Liam offered to re-form Oasis in 2015 for the 20th anniversary of their first album, (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, but that Noel had declined. ''He's got my permission to go and play it,'' Noel told the BBC. ''I left that band for a reason and that reason still stands.''

The man who brought Oasis to the world, Creation Records founder Alan McGee, told EG during a visit to Australia a few weeks ago that although he was more in contact with Noel than Liam he didn't take sides in the brothers' feud.

''Neither one of them are in my social world because I'm in Wales; I don't see anybody,'' he says. ''I'm glad I live in Wales sometimes when it's going on between them, because I can't be involved in it any more, which is f---in' great, it's not my problem,'' he chuckles. ''I hope they make up because they're brothers. I hope it gets sorted out.''

The time for reconciliation might be a way off. Gallagher the elder is not only busy with touring High Flying Birds - he is strongly tipped to be announced for next year's Big Day Out - but has been finishing off the second album he has recorded with the British act Amorphous Androgynous. He plans to release it about June next year.
''We've just gone back and tweaked a couple of mixes,'' he says. ''Other than that it's completely recorded and completely done. If my music in the High Flying Birds has slightly psychedelic tinges to it, then on this next album it's been exaggerated by the times of 20.''

Is it like the material he did with the Chemical Brothers? ''No, that was more electronic, this is more '70s psychedelia. It's good, though, you'll like it. You'll love it.''

Like Hawkwind?

''Yes! Like Hawkwind. Seriously! Like Silver Machine. F---, ha ha ha!''

Source: www.smh.com.au

Oasis: What's the Story?‎ Part One

The show is a repeat broadcast.

The Gallagher brothers, Alan McGhee and others tell the story of the band and their success. It's repeated to complement Noel Gallagher's live encore for 6 Music, plus the station's celebration of the north of England with its season of programmes from Salford.

Mark Radcliffe takes a canny look at the trials and tribulations of the Gallagher brothers and one of the biggest British bands of all. It covers their beginnings as Rain, to stadium concerts and the constant rivalry between band members and the brothers. The documentary first broadcast on Radio 2 in 2002.

Click here to listen again, part two will be broadacst in the early hours of tomorrow morning.

Watch Upside Down: The Creation Story Now!

Fans in the UK can watch the documentary chronicling the highs and lows of the UK's most inspired and dissolute independent record label - Creation Records, founded by the maverick Glaswegian, Alan McGee.

It contains some great early footage of Oasis and features interviews with Andy Bell, Bonehead and Noel Gallagher.

Click here to watch it on the BBC iPlayer.

You can also watch Creation At The BBC

Performances by Creation Records artists including the Jesus and Mary Chain, the Loft, My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Primal Scream, Oasis, Ride, Boo Radleys and Teenage Fanclub.

Click here to watch it on the BBC iPlayer.

Alan McGee Defends Oasis Memorabilia Auction

Former Creation Records boss says he 'can't be arsed with music anymore'

Alan McGee has explained why he is selling off a collection of music memorabilia which includes a host of Oasis items.

The former Creation Records boss said he is selling off goods he collected since 1983 when he set up his former label, because he "can't be arsed with music anymore".

He explained: As I have said many times before – I can't be arsed with music anymore. I moved to Wales to get away from it, why would I want it in my basement? As for my financial situation – on last count I have five big houses so I think I'll be ok in my old age.

McGee also confirmed that the Omega Rock And Roll auction would be the first of many to come.

Many of the items for sale at the event, which takes place at Omega House in Stockport on November 5, relate to Creation bands, such as a one-off print of Noel Gallagher, taken before the release of 'Be Here Now' and signed by photographer Jill Furmanovsky.

Other Oasis items include a collection of tour itineraries, books signed by McGee, a number of backstage passes and a certificate from the Liverpool Institute Of Performing Arts.

The most expensive item, which McGee bought in 2007, is a John Squire painting in oil and wax called 'Jesus And Mary', in which The Stone Roses guitarist attempted to visually emulate some of the Creation band's sounds through the use of splattered paint.

For more information on the sale, go to the website of Omega Auctions.

Source: www.nme.com

Creation Night On BBC 4 October 28th

On October 28th 20011, BBC 4 is having a night devoted to Creation Records.

Upside Down: The Creation Story
On: BBC 4
Date: Friday 28th October 2011
Time: 9:00 pm to 10:40 pm (1 hour and 40 minutes long) (UK Only)

Millions of sales on both sides of the Atlantic, near bankruptcy, pills, thrills, spats, prats, successes, excesses, pick-me-ups and breakdowns - all spiralled together to create some of the most defining music of the 20th century. This is the definitive and fully-authorised documentary of the highs and lows of the UK's most inspired and dissolute independent record label - Creation Records. Over 25 years after Creation's first records, it follows the story from the days of the Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, Ride, Primal Scream and Teenage Fanclub to the Boo Radleys, the Super Furry Animals and of course Oasis, among many, many more. The label's enigmatic founder Alan McGee talks candidly of the trail which led from humble beginnings in Glasgow, via drink and drug dependency to being wined and dined at No 10 Downing Street by Tony Blair.


Creation at the BBC
On: BBC 4
Date: Friday 28th October 2011
Time: 10:40 pm to 11:40 pm (1 hour long) (UK Only)

A trip through the BBC archives from programmes such as Whistle Test, the Oxford Road Show, Top of the Pops and Later with Jools Holland to find some rare and some familiar footage of the bands who were on one of the UK's most seminal and important record labels, Creation Records. There's footage of the Jesus and Mary Chain on Whistle Test in 1985, and from the same year comes The Loft on the Oxford Road Show. The Loft morphed into Pete Astor's next project, the Weather Prophets, who performed on the Whistle Test later that year. My Bloody Valentine nearly bankrupted Creation but produced one of the label's flagship albums, Isn't Anything, while Slowdive were front runners in the 'shoegazing' scene. The 1990s heralded the halcyon days of Creation with the release of Primal Scream's Screamadelica and Oasis signing to the label in 1993. Thus followed a string of chart successes for Creation with Ride, the Boo Radleys, Super Furry Animals, Teenage Fanclub and, of course, Oasis.


Omnibus
On: BBC 4
Date: Friday 28th October 2011
Time: 11:40 pm to 12:30 am (50 minutes long) (UK Only)

Alan Mcgee - The Man Who Discovered Oasis.
A rollercoaster ride through the life and times of the man who has lived the rock 'n' roll dream. Alan McGee almost burned himself out with drugs and drink before finding the biggest band of the 90s, Oasis, and making a million in the process. Abrasive and honest, this is a no-holds-barred portrait of one of the most influential figures in popular music.

Thanks to Mr Monobrow

Alan McGee Talks About The Demos For Noel Gallagher's Album

Taken from an interview with Alan McGee, from Live4ever read the full interview here.

L4E: You’re one of the lucky ones to hear some of the tracks early o. Do you think this is the start of another great chapter for Noel as a solo artist?

AM:I hope so, the demos are raw – I hope he keeps some of that edge when he releases music. He has the tunes.

Taken from an inteview from Sourmash read the full interview here.

SM: I have read that you had heard early demo’s of Noel’s work for his solo album, what were you initial thoughts on his output?

AM: Loved them, keep it raw dude.

Noel Gallagher To Unveil Debut Solo Album Plans Tomorrow!

Noel Gallagher looks certain to reveal his debut solo album plans at a press conference in London tomorrow, Wednesday 6 July. Invites have been circulated from Gallagher's own Sour Mash label for the event, which is set to be a guest list only affair.

MusicRadar will have a roving reporter on the inside so stay tuned for updates, but in the meantime, what do we know already?

In 2008, Noel claimed to have "loads of new songs... and they're all brilliant", while following the Oasis split in 2009, rumours began to fly around, with Alan McGee perhaps predictably chiming in to say that Gallagher's new material is "totally amazing."

2011 has seen recent sightings in LA studios and a hastily-withdrawn announcement from a production company claiming to have worked on a video for a track called The Death Of You And Me. This will almost certainly be the title of Noel's debut solo single.

This 'leaked' tracklisting now seems unlikely to be 100 percent accurate, although we still wonder if lost Noel songs from the Oasis era such as Stop The Clocks, I Want To Live In A Dream In My Record Machine and If I Had A Gun might finally get an official release. Liam certainly seems to think so.

One thing's for sure, we'll know more tomorrow and as soon as we do, you will too. Here's hoping that Noel's new songs are this good.

Source: www.musicradar.com

Alan McGee Talks Oasis

Taken from an interview with Alan Mcgee, read the full article here.

Alan on when Oasis played T In The Park in 1994.

He smiles: "Oasis played one of their best ever shows at the first T In The Park back in 1994.

"To this day the Gallagher brothers don't know I was actually there - they thought I was drying out in rehab.

"But I made it in time to sneak in with my sister Susan. It was the first time I'd seen them clean and sober - they were still great."

On trying to arrange a pay-per-view Oasis gig.

I even tried to set up a pay-per-view Oasis gig in Antarctica. We'd have sold it around the world for £10 a ticket.

"It would have easily made us £50m for just one gig. But Noel didn't fancy the cold."

On Oasis in the US.

Oasis also failed to break America, but Alan disagrees: "They did in a sales way - shifting eight to 10m records in the States. But you're right - there weren't American kids walking about like Liam, like there were over here."

Alan - whose documentary Upside Down: The Creation Records Story is out now on DVD - says: "My daughter hates Oasis and all the whole Britpop era. She now tortures me with Glee.

"But I'm fine with that. I once said to Noel Gallagher, 'I will always be known as the Oasis guy'.

"And he replied, 'Same here - but it could be worse, you could have been the guy who discovered The Darkness'."

Source: www.thescottishsun.co.uk

Alan McGee Talks Oasis & Beady Eye

Taken from an interview with Alan McGee, read the full article here.

How do you go about coming off drugs when you're hanging around with members of Oasis?

Oasis were cool about me getting clean. It was harder with me and The Primals, as I grew up with them. When I came back clean, it must have been strange for them. They are all sober now, so it's all good between us.

What was the most profound thing Liam Gallagher ever said to you?

He said once to me, 'We are Oasis and you are Creation, so it's all meant to be'. When I thought about it, I took it as being very wise. Everything is written.

Will you be stopping by to see Beady Eye at Summer Sonic?

Yeah! I love them. People are down on Liam and the band, but it's a really good album so I will go and see them.

Source: www.timeout.jp