Outspoken former Creation Records boss Alan McGee is reported to have said he believes the recent fire at the Sony PIAS warehouse in Enfield, London was ‘funny’.
Themusic.com.au claims McGee told the BigSound music industry conference in Australia that he found the blaze amusing because it ‘got rid of all the shit music’.
“I read that the Sony PIAS building burnt down,” he is quoted as saying. “I’m probably the only person who thought that was funny. I call that a result. Got rid of all the shit music. And you get paid for it, the stuff you couldn’t sell.”
The warehouse fire was started during last month’s unrest in London, and resulted in many independent labels having large portions of their stock destroyed.
A new campaign, Label Love, was set up not long after, and is now looking to organise events across the UK in a bid to offset the expected financial losses affected labels are to face.