The Jesus & Mary Chain (Photo: Alberto Pezzali for Live4ever Media)
Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting, is working on a screenplay based on his fellow countryman Alan McGee‘s 2013 book The Creation Records Story: Riots, Raves and Running a Label, reports Variety.
Welsh is said to be focusing on, ‘relentless ambition and wealth coupled with mental torment, drugs and eventually bankruptcy’, in his adaption for Burning Wheel, whose producer Shelley Hammond remarks:
“Burning Wheel is absolutely delighted to be working with Kaleidoscope to create a film about one of the most culturally important British figures in the music business Alan McGee, written by the voice of a generation Irvine Welsh.”
Along side labels such as Factory and Rough Trade, and led by bands including The Jesus & Mary Chain, Teenage Fanclub and Primal Scream, Creation Records was at the heart of the UK’s hugely influential eighties independent scene, but then went global in the nineties thanks to the signing of Oasis in 1993.
It was famously a chance stop by McGee at King Tut’s in Glasgow which led to him meeting the Gallagher brothers and securing a band which would go on to sell the best part of 100 million records worldwide before their split in 2009.