Words: Chris Catchpole
Alan McGee is one of the most influential figures in the history of British music. After setting up Creation Records with Dick Green and Joe Foster in ...
How many of today’s label executives will have a biopic made about their career?
That remains to be seen, but Alan McGee – the man who founded the original Creation ...
They don’t make record company bosses like Alan McGee anymore. Now celebrating the second birthday of his latest indie, Creation 23, he talks us through the original Creation Records and ...
The old adage, ‘It’s not what you know, it’s who you know’, has been bandied about the music business since it came into existence.
Like any seemingly glamourous industry, the ...
The room was abuzz with excitement. The date was September 13, 1992 and the occasion was In The City, the now-defunct Manchester music conference founded by the late Factory Records ...
Apart from its secondary school, Cheney Lane is like many other roads in east Oxford: quiet, tree-lined and unassuming. In the 1980s, two of the school’s students, Mark Gardener and ...
The security guard with stained teeth and a warm smile lifts the silver crowd barrier aside and ushers us into the Barrowland Ballroom. It’s lunchtime on the opening day of ...
The director of a documentary about the glory years of Oasis believes the speed and scale of the band’s rise would not be possible in the modern music business.
Made ...
Ashcroft hails record year for PRS
PRS For Music CEO Robert Ashcroft has declared 2015 “a great, great year” for the collection society, after it reported record revenue figures. The ...
