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
March 2021
Creation myths: Alan McGee tells the real story of those wild Britpop years
Creation Stories review – generic biopic of record label supremo Alan McGee
One to watch
One to watch: the Clockworks
'It's all psychedelic!' The film about Alan McGee's rocking, rolling life
Creation Stories review – mythmaking and megalomania in likable Alan McGee biopic
Tenement Kid: Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie to publish memoir
July 2020
Club culture
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
October 2015
Music blog
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
November 2013
30 minutes with …
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
May 2013
From Rock's Backpages
Alan McGee on Creation, Oasis and cashflow – a classic from the vaults
Creation Records' Alan McGee to launch new label – 359 Music
September 2012
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
November 2011
Phone hacking: Alan McGee says detail in NoW PI's notes is 'frightening'
Phone hacking: Alan McGee may have been target
April 2011
Upside Down: The Creation Records Story – review
Oasis's label Creation and its founder Alan McGee are the subject of this fascinating documentary, writes Andrew Pulver
September 2010
Alan McGee: 'If there's one thing Creation Records wasn't, it was boring'
Ahead of next month's premiere of Upside Down, a film about Creation, label founder Alan McGee remembers running out of money, feuding with Kevin Shields and babysitting Mick Hucknall
November 2009
Alan McGee meets Jon Bon Jovi
When Creation boss and Oasis mentor Alan McGee confessed his admiration for veteran rocker Jon Bon Jovi on a Guardian blog, we just had to get them together, writes Caroline Sullivan
May 2009
Music blog
Bonehead, Carl Barat and Alan McGee star in Svengali
There's even room for Maggot from Goldie Lookin Chain in this YouTube comedy show ...
October 2008
Alan McGee announces his retirement
The former manager of Oasis and the Charlatans bows out after a 25 year career at the centre of British rock
