Former Creation Records boss Alan McGee has said he is considering re-launching one of Britain’s most successful independent labels.
McGee effectively retired from the music business in the early part of the last decade, and has since been a vocal critical of the modern music world and shown little desire to return. However, in a statement released this week, he has now revealed being immersed in the Tokyo Rocks festival this summer has helped him to fall in love with music again, and is now looking at giving the industry a much needed ‘kick in the balls’.
“Since spending the summer helping curate Tokyo Rocks for next year it’s made me realise I do still love it,” the statement reads.” It was when I was flying back from Japan with the Primals that started me loving it again.”
“To be honest I am now seriously thinking about restarting Creation, or maybe Re-Creation if I can find the right people at a label to work with. Music needs a kick in the balls, and I have got the music buzz back.”
Alan McGee launched Creation Records in 1983 and, while only enjoying modest commercial success during the next decade, was the home to some of the era’s most influential bands, including Primal Scream, The Jesus and Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine.
However, it was signing Oasis after a chance meeting in Glasgow in 1993 which catapulted the company into the big time, and cemented its status as one of the very best indie labels before its dissolution in 1999.
