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Oasis have announced they are celebrating the 30th anniversary of their 1994 debut album, Definitely Maybe, with an expansive reissue arriving on August 30th.

Along with the 2014 remastered version of the album, Definitely Maybe (30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) features unearthed tracks from the original recording session at Monnow Valley Studios and outtakes recorded at Sawmills Studios in Cornwall — all newly mixed by Noel Gallagher and Callum Marinho.

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The reissue also includes new artwork from original art designer Brian Cannon for Microdot and original sleeve photographer Michael Spencer Jones, as well as new sleeve notes penned by Creation Records boss Alan McGee and journalist Hamish MacBain.

The 30th anniversary expanded edition will be available in limited edition deluxe 4xLP, deluxe 2xCD, limited edition blue cassette, and digital formats. There are also multiple colored vinyl variants. Pre-orders are ongoing.

Oasis were among the finalists for the Rock and...

This review of “Creation Stories” was first published on June 16, 2021 after the film’s premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Drug-fueled benders and a knack for finding promising musical acts defined several decades of Scottish producer Alan McGee‘s storied, fast-paced life. The irreverent man behind Creation Records, the fiercely independent label that launched a slew of prominent bands into international stardom, holds a treasure-trove of anecdotes.

Those accounts — from the early, no-expectations days to the downfall from his no-holds-barred lifestyle — were first poured into McGee‘s 2013 autobiography and have now been adapted for the screen by Dean Cavanagh and Irvine Welsh (“Trainspotting”) for actor-turned-director Nick Moran’s film “Creation Stories.” Danny Boyle is an executive producer.

The somewhat-successful framing device here, at least for most of the parade of memories, is McGee’s interview with a young reporter in Los Angeles. Ewen Bremner, best known for playing Spud in “Trainspotting” and its sequel,...

Some movies endure as a treasured soundtrack to which the film itself becomes a mere footnote. That seems likely to prove the case with “Creation Stories,” a biopic of Creation Records’ founder Alan McGee that duly draws sonic fuel from the stellar array of Britpop bands he was involved with. But as directed by Nick Moran in obvious imitation of executive producer Danny Boyle’s most hyperbolic style, scripted by Irvine Welsh and Dean Cavanagh, this apparently loose interpretation of the subject’s memoir becomes a hyperventilating “Behind the Music” caricature, all familiar flash and precious little substance. Rlj Entertainment is releasing on demand and digital platforms in the U.S. on Feb. 25, following openings in most other territories.

McGee’s 2013 same-titled tome is a breezy yet cogent chronicle of a whirlwind career, written in the clear-eyed retrospect of sobriety after years of chemical excess. But the film immediately lunges...

There are multiple moments during Oasis Knebworth 1996, the hugely entertaining documentary revisiting the Britpop legends’ most gargantuan concert, when present-day interviewees remark how lovely it was that the show occurred pre-iPhone, Facebook, etc. Yes, it is the “Not a cell phone in sight. Just people living in the moment” meme brought to life. And in this instance it’s hard to disagree. The audience was not littered with screens. There were no social media platforms overflowing with attendee gloating. Indeed, the Internet of 1996 was glitchy and unavailable to many. Ticket-purchasing involved waiting in long lines outside record stores or tying up the home phone line while waiting (impatiently) on hold.

As Oasis Knebworth 1996 vividly details, just getting to a concert like Knebworth was not easy. Even more difficult? Finding modern bands with enough popularity to headline such a location. Knebworth House was the domain of Monsters of Rock () like the Rolling Stones,...

Summer 2021 is the 25th anniversary of one of the biggest concerts in British music history: Oasis at Knebworth. The two-day event saw 250,000 mad-for-it fans of Liam and Noel Gallagher swarm the grounds of a country house in southern England for a murderer’s row of Britpop heavyweights. No performers stood taller that day than the headliners, the brash, Beatles-meets-Sex-Pistols from Manchester. For a brief period of time, Oasis was the biggest rock band in the world. None of this––literally none––would have happened had it not been for a sarcastic, caustic, hedonistic and drug-fueled Scotsman named Alan McGee. As his biopic Creation Stories opens he is introduced as a “music industry kingpin, guru, and former head of Creation Records.”

That is all true, though as a title card reads, “Most of this happened. Some of the names have been changed… to protect the guilty.” One’s interest in the...

Mixing both the agony and euphoria of rebelling against a society that tries to suppress their innovative ideas can be a liberating experience for prolific visionaries. Music producer and Creation Records co-founder, Alan McGee is one such daring idealist, whose penchant for hard living was instrumental in creating the Brit Pop soundtrack of the 1990s. […]

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Exclusive: Rlje Films has acquired U.S. rights to Creation Stories, the rock biopic of Creation Records creator and founder Alan McGee that is directed by Nick Moran and stars Trainspotting alum Ewen Bremner. That’s one of several connections to the that 1996 film; Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh co-wrote the Creation Stories script with Dean Cavanagh, and Trainspotting director Danny Boyle is among the executive producers.

The deal comes ahead of the film’s premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Kirsty Mitchell, Suki Waterhouse, Thomas Turgoose, Leo Flanagan and Jason Isaacs also star in the Metro International Entertainment pic, which charts the true story of the rise and fall of McGee, credited as responsible for supplying the “Brit Pop” soundtrack to the 1990s, a decade of cultural renaissance known as Cool Britannia. It follows McGee through a drug-fueled haze of music and mayhem, with his dream bringing the world the...

Shania Twain, Chuck D, Abba’s Benny Andersson, T-Pain, Brandi Carlile, Boyz II Men, and more artists, producers, and songwriters delve into the historical resonance of pop music in Banger Films’ This Is Pop. The eight-part docuseries hits Netflix on June 22nd.

Each episode explores pop music beyond its musical aspects, examining its societal impact as well. Racism, sexism, classism, queer politics, and social injustice are addressed, according to a statement.

Episodes are grouped by style, era, and/or genre. The Boyz II Men Effect features Boyz II Men’s Nate Morris,...

New Tribeca Online Premieres section will offer new films, shorts, podcasts, 14 VR sections, games.

Tribeca Festival heads on Monday (May 3) announced the virtual hub Tribeca At Home, which will offer exclusive online premieres to viewers within the US who cannot attend the outdoor festival.

The new Tribeca Online Premieres section will offer new films, shorts, podcasts, 14 VR sections, and games and runs alongside the main festival from June 9-20.

The line-up comprises 35 films, of which 24 are features and 11 are shorts. It includes select features from the outdoor festival roster, as well as three previously announced shorts from the Juneteenth programme focusing on music,...

Though the 2021 Tribeca Festival is set to take place largely in-person across New York City, the fest is making select films available to audiences throughout the U.S. via its newly launched online platform, Tribeca at Home.

The lineup for the Online Premieres section consists of 35 films: 24 features and 11 shorts.

Highlights of the narrative features lineup include Creation Stories about the life of music mogul Alan McGee, whose Creation Records signed Oasis, Primal Scream and My Bloody Valentine, and Jonah Feingold’s Dating and New York about a pair matched up on a dating app who pursue a friends-with-benefits ...

Though the 2021 Tribeca Festival is set to take place largely in-person across New York City, the fest is making select films available to audiences throughout the U.S. via its newly launched online platform, Tribeca at Home.

The lineup for the Online Premieres section consists of 35 films: 24 features and 11 shorts.

Highlights of the narrative features lineup include Creation Stories about the life of music mogul Alan McGee, whose Creation Records signed Oasis, Primal Scream and My Bloody Valentine, and Jonah Feingold’s Dating and New York about a pair matched up on a dating app who pursue a friends-with-benefits ...

The life of legendary band manager/Creation Records founder Alan McGee has been brought to the big screen by director Nick Moran and screenwriter Irvine Welsh, in Burning Wheel Productions’ Creation Stories.

Adapted from McGee’s autobiography, Creation Stories- Riots, Raves and Running and Record Label, the film charts McGee’s anarchic rise from small town promoter to industry mogul and the formation his record label Creation, which housed the likes of The Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, Primal Scream and Oasis.

The Creation Stories’ stellar cast includes Ewen Bremner (as McGee), Jason Isaacs, Suki Waterhouse, Rupert Everett, Stephen Berkoff and Jason Flemyng which, along with Moran’s direction, make it an energetic low glide over one of the last great music movements.

Back in the summer of 2018, HeyUGuys visited the Creation Stories production in Camden, London on a day when Moran and his crew were recreating past...

Irvine Welsh’s cracking adaption of an autobiography by the ‘President of Pop’ flashes from My Bloody Valentine to his discovery of Oasis

“I’m talentless. But I make things happen.” That’s record label supremo Alan McGee speaking. It’s not remotely true: his taste is his talent. In the 80s and 90s, McGee put out records by the Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, Primal Scream and Teenage Fanclub. Now comes a biopic: a lairy, likable film directed by Lock Stock actor Nick Moran.

Creation Stories is co-written by McGee’s mate Irvine Welsh and Dean Cavanagh, who have adapted McGee’s 2013 autobiography. And it’s the cracking script that is the star here, giving McGee just enough working-class gobshite cheekiness (“I’m just a wee ginger tool from Glasgow”) to balance out the myth-making and megalomania. (This is a man who had a sign on his...

In addition to UK-Ireland deal with Sky.

Metro International Entertainment has secured additional deals on Nick Moran’s rock ‘n’ roll biopic Creation Stories.

The film has sold to Australia-New Zealand (Kismet Movies), Japan (Pony Canyon), Canada (Level Films), Cis (Planeta), Portugal (Nos Lusomundo), Middle East (Front Row), Eastern Europe (HBO), Spain (Twelve Oaks) and airlines (Aardwolf Films), while a US deal is in the works and expected post-efm.

In a previously announced deal, UK broadcaster Sky will release the film as an Original title on its Sky Cinema channel on March 20, following the film’s world premiere as the...

Producer Orian Williams makes his directorial debut with Jeff Buckley biopic “Everybody Here Wants You.” Culmination will produce and kick off worldwide sales of the pic at the European Film Market.

“Everybody Here Wants You” stars Reeve Carney as the singer-songwriter whose career was cut short by his death in 1997. The film has full support of the Buckley estate and has access to Buckley’s music.

Culmination Prod.’s Tom Butterfield will produce alongside Buckley’s mother, Mary Guibert, and Alison Raykovich, manager of his estate and VP of Jeff Buckley Music. Culmination’s Harry White handles sales at the EFM.

Jeff Buckley met his father, singer-songwriter Tim Buckley, whose own music spurred an intense following, only once. Tim Buckley died in 1975, but his estranged son did possess the same gift for music. Jeff Buckley released one album, “Grace,” in 1994, which rocketed him to the top of critics lists and inspired a deep fandom,...

If this film didn't take its title from Creation Records, one would have to consider it ironic, because there's nothing whatsoever that's creative about it. It's the story of the said company's founder, Alan McGee (variously played by Leo Flanagan and Ewen Bremner), who rises from life on a Glasgow housing estate to the pinnacle of music industry success, as represented by a sun lounger and a pool with random bikini-clad young women wandering around it. He wears sunglasses all the time. He makes pithy comments. Danny Boyle produces, and although Nick Moran is ostensibly in charge of the show, one can detect the former's presence through every predictable shot choice.

It begins, of course, with our young hero dwelling in supposed poverty, though actually he doesn't seem to be doing too badly by the standards of the time. His traditional working class father doesn't understand popular music or boys wearing.

It looks like we still won’t be going anywhere too exciting in March, so it’s a good job that Sky Cinema has, as always, lined up a slate of new films for us to plough through while we’re waiting to get back out there!

See if anything takes your fancy in our handy guide to what’s coming up on Sky Cinema in the month ahead…

Premieres

The Witches – 5th March on Sky Cinema and the Sky Cinema Pass on Now TV

Back to the Future director Robert Zemeckis takes on Roald Dahl in this reimagining of one of his most beloved books. In The Witches, an orphaned lad gets much more than he bargained for when the world’s Grand High Witch gathers her contemporaries together to plot a scheme against children everywhere. Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci, and narrator Chris Rock lead the cast.

From 24 February-7 March, the Gff will host eight world, three European and 48 UK premieres online. Initially planned as a hybrid event taking place both in cinemas and online, the 2021 edition of the Glasgow Film Festival will now unfold entirely online, via Glasgow Film’s new viewing platform Glasgow Film At Home. The movies will be accessible to everyone in the UK (not just in Scotland) for the price of £9.99 per film and with special, themed bundles. Opening on 24 February with Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari, the festival will close on 7 March with Suzanne Lindon’s Spring Blossom. Standing out among the festival’s eight world premieres is Nick Moran’s Creation Stories, written by Scottish author Irvine Welsh and starring Ewen Bremner, of Trainspotting fame, as the infamous Alan McGee, founder of record label Creation Records, which brought into the world acts such as My Bloody Valentine, Primal Scream...

UK broadcaster Sky has landed rights to a host of upcoming features, packing its film slate for 2021 with titles including the Allison Janney-starring Breaking News in Yuba County and the Irvine Welsh-penned Creation Stories.

The company says it will release two ‘original’ films every month this year and one per week from next year. The full list of 14 newly-announced originals is below, they join previously announced pics on the slate such as Twist with Michael Caine, the animation Dragon Rider voiced Felicity Jones and Patrick Stewart, and To Olivia starring Hugh Bonneville and Keeley Hawes.

In the past, Sky has released its original titles day-and-date with UK cinemas. Once venues are able to re-open post-lockdown this could once again come into play.

Asked if Sky is being opportunistic about its film slate in light of cinema closures and delayed movie releases, Zai Bennett, Sky’s managing director of...

Here’s fun first footage of Alan McGee biopic Creation Stories, starring Ewen Bremner (Trainspotting) as legendary music executive McGee.

Executive-produced by Danny Boyle, the Brit comedy is based on McGee’s autobiography, The Creation Records Story: Riots, Raves And Running A Label, about the highs and lows of running label Creation Records, famous for putting out hits by the likes of My Bloody Valentine, Primal Scream and Oasis.

Also starring are Suki Waterhouse (Assassination Nation), Leo Flanagan (Hanna), Jason Isaacs (Harry Potter), Jason Flemyng (Pennyworth), comedian Ed Byrne, Paul Kaye (It’s All Gone Pete Tong), Perry Benson (You Rang M’Lord?), Thomas Turgoose (This is England), Steven Berkoff (Octopussy), Rufus Jones (W1A) and Mel Raido (Legend).

Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels star and Telstar: The Story of Joe Meek director Nick Moran is directing. Trainspotting novelist Irvine Welsh, who is close friends with McGee, has written...

“American Psycho” writer Bret Easton Ellis and “Trainspotting” writer Irvine Welsh are in final talks with Burning Wheel Productions to co-create a drama series based on American tabloid culture.

Working-titled “American Tabloid,” the series “will journey through the decades following events from a weekly publication and enter into a world where political correctness, morals and ethics are left firmly at the door,” according to Burning Wheel. It will follow a “rambunctious cavalcade of pranksters, con men, and rapscallions — in other words, journalists — being brought together from across the globe to change not only the landscape but the power of the press forever from scandalous rumour to political puppetry.”

“To do this production justice we always knew we would require writers who don’t hold back and go way further than most would dare,” Burning Wheel’s Shelley Hammond said in a statement. “We are just beyond delighted that we are...

Irvine Welsh and Bret Easton Ellis are set to team up on a satirical drama series about America’s tabloid press culture, according to UK producer Burning Wheel Productions.

Working title American Tabloid, the show will chronicles a weekly publication across decades, a place where political correctness, morals and ethics are left firmly at the door. Producers said the deal for the pair to co-create the project was being firmed up and development would begin shortly.

Burning Wheel previously teamed with Welsh on feature Creation Stories, which was executive produced by Danny Boyle and tells the life of British music industry Svengali Alan McGee.

“To do this production justice we always knew we would require writers who don’t hold back and go way further than most would dare,” said producer Shelley Hammond. “We are just beyond delighted that we are ready to agree a deal to make this happen...

“Trainspotting” writer Irvine Welsh and “American Psycho” author Bret Easton Ellis are in final talks with the U.K.’s Burning Wheel Productions to co-create a dramatized series based on the national tabloid press culture in the U.S.

With the working title “American Tabloid,” the series will unspool over decades and follow events from a weekly publication where political correctness, morals and ethics are unheard of.

The deal is expected to get confirmed in the coming weeks, with a development schedule to follow.

“To do this production justice we always knew we would require writers who don’t hold back and go way further than most would dare,” said Shelley Hammond of Burning Wheel. “We are just beyond delighted that we are ready to agree a deal to make this happen with the incredible talent of Bret and Irvine. This would be the first time the two have collaborated...

To cancel out any negative press that seems to be surrounding the latest instalment of the Bond franchise a short video has been released from the set of ‘Bond’ 25 in Jamaica.

Broccoli revealed that Bond is not on active service when the film starts, but the film has already shot in Norway and will travel to Pinewood in London and Italy.

Daniel Craig will reprise the role of the suited and booted uber spy and womaniser, James Bond, for the final time.

Returning cast members include Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris, Ben Whishaw, Jeffrey Wright, Lea Seydoux and Rory Kinnear are newcomers Rami Malek (playing the villain), Ana de Armas, Dali Benssalah, Lashana Lynch and Billy Magnussen.

Also in news – Jason Isaacs joins the cast of Danny Boyle’s Alan McGee bio-pic ‘Creation Stories’

Cary Fukunaga is directing the film after stepping into the void left by Danny Boyle who walked...

Alongside the first look images from the Alan McGee bio-pic ‘Creation Stories’ being released comes the rounding out the cast including Jason Isaacs.

Other actors joining the cast include comedian Ed Byrne as well as Paul Kaye (It’s All Gone Pete Tong), Perry Benson (You Rang M’Lord?), Thomas Turgoose (This is England), Steven Berkoff (Octopussy), Rufus Jones (W1A) and Mel Raido (Legend). They join previously confirmed castmates Ewen Bremner and Suki Waterhouse. Leo Flanagan has been confirmed to play young Alan McGee in his feature film debut.

Directed by Nick Moran and written by Irvine Welsh and exec produced by Danny Boyle, the feature film of the life of Alan McGee – the adaptation of his highly acclaimed autobiography ‘Creation Stories – Riots, Raves and Running a Record Label’.

Also in news – Josh Brolin and Miles Teller jump onboard Sean Penn’s ‘Flag Day’

The beginning, near bankruptcy, pills, thrills,...

Jason Isaacs, Steven Berkoff and a host of other new names have signed on for “Creation Stories,” the film being exec-produced by Danny Boyle about Creation Records co-founder Alan McGee. The producers also unveiled the first shots of Ewen Bremner (“Trainspotting”) as the music mogul.

Production is underway on the Irvine Welsh-penned project, with “Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels” star Nick Moran (“Telstar: The Story of Joe Meek”) helming. Well-known British actors and comics including Ed Byrne, Paul Kaye, Thomas Turgoose, Rufus Jones, Perry Benson and Mel Raido appear in the film.

The new names join the previously announced Suki Waterhouse and Bremner in the feature. Leo Flanagan (“Hanna”) will play a younger version of the label boss, in his feature film debut.

Welsh adapted McGee’s autobiography, “Creation Stories – Riots, Raves and Running a Record Label,” for the screen with his writing partner, Dean Cavanagh.

The movie will...

Alan McGee biopic Creation Stories has added cast including Jason Isaacs (Harry Potter), comedian Ed Byrne, Paul Kaye (It’s All Gone Pete Tong), Perry Benson (You Rang M’Lord?), Thomas Turgoose (This is England), Steven Berkoff (Octopussy), Rufus Jones (W1A) and Mel Raido (Legend).

Already set to star in the music film executive-produced by Danny Boyle are Ewen Bremner (Trainspotting) as McGee (the first image from production is above) and Suki Waterhouse (Assassination Nation). Newcomer Leo Flanagan (Hanna), in his feature debut, has been confirmed to play young McGee.

Creation Stories, which has been long in the works, is based on UK music industry exec Alan McGee’s autobiography, The Creation Records Story: Riots, Raves And Running A Label, about the highs and lows of running label Creation Records, famous for putting out hits by the likes of My Bloody Valentine, Primal Scream and Oasis.

Trainspotting and Slumdog Millionaire...

In the early 2000s, the Manchester music scene — and its most scene-connected label, Factory Records — became the basis of one of pop’s most unexpectedly beguiling feature films, 24 Hour Party People. This summer, Creation Stories, a quasi-companion piece to that movie, plans to start shooting in London.

The film focuses on the life and musical discoveries of Alan McGee, the Scottish head of Creation Records — the U.K. indie label that, throughout the Eighties and Nineties, rolled out Oasis, the Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, Teenage Fanclub...

Danny Boyle is set to reunite with ‘Trainspotting’ authour Irvine Welsh to executive produce a biopic on Oasis’s label boss Alan McGee.

The project, titled ‘Creation Stories’ will be based on McGee’s own biographical novel and will be adapted for the screen by Welsh and Dean Cavanagh. The film tells of the relentless ambition, mental torment, drugs, bankruptcy, unfathomable wealth, courting politicians and of how one written-off young Glaswegian upstart rose to change the face of British culture.

‘Trainspotting’s’ Ewan Bremner (Spud), will be taking up the lead as McGee. Rupert Everett, Suki Waterhouse and Jason Flemyng have also been added to the cast. Nick Moran will take the helm.

“I’ve been lucky to work with both Danny and Nick over the years and to have the two of them together on this project, along with Ewen, feels like a lottery win,” said Welsh.

Also in...

Danny Boyle’s next film is the upcoming Beatles musical “Yesterday,” but the director is set to executive produce another music biopic about the record label executive who ushered in the band Oasis, a group that once declared themselves bigger than The Beatles.

Boyle will executive produce “Creation Stories,” a biopic based on the life of music mogul Alan McGee, whose Creation Records also launched other iconic bands like Primal Scream and The Jesus & Mary Chain, Burning Wheel Productions announced Tuesday.

Boyle is reuniting with “Trainspotting” author Irvine Welsh on the project, who is writing the screenplay based on McGee’s autobiography “The Creation Records Story: Riots, Raves and Running a Label.”

Ewen Bremner, who is best known as “Spud” in Boyle’s “Trainspotting,” stars in the project as McGee, and the cast also includes Rupert Everett, Suki Waterhouse and Jason Fleming.

Danny Boyle has come on board rock music biopic “Creation Stories,” about music mogul Alan McGee, as exec producer. Rupert Everett, Suki Waterhouse and Jason Flemyng have joined the cast of the film, which is being sold by Metro International.

Irvine Welsh, who wrote the novel that was adapted as Boyle’s movie “Trainspotting,” and Dean Cavanagh wrote the screenplay, based on McGee’s autobiography, “The Creation Records Story: Riots, Raves and Running a Label.” Ewen Bremner, who was Spud in “Trainspotting,” plays McGee.

The pic tells the story of the Scottish-born McGee and his record label, Creation, which was one of the most successful and influential imprints of the 1980s and ’90s, launching bands such as Oasis, Primal Scream, My Bloody Valentine and The Jesus & Mary Chain. McGee was a charismatic and hard-partying figure on the music scene of the era, with a brash attitude reminiscent of Sex Pistols svengali Malcolm McLaren.

Danny Boyle is to exec produce an Irvine Welsh-penned feature about seminal British record label Creation with Rupert Everett, Suki Waterhouse and Jason Flemyng joining the cast.

Creation Stories, which has been long in the works, is based on Alan McGee’s autobiography, The Creation Records Story: Riots, Raves and Running a Label, about the highs and lows of running the label famous for putting out records by the likes of My Bloody Valentine, Primal Scream and Oasis.

The Trainspotting and Slumdog Millionaire director will exec produce the project, which is being directed by Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels star and Telstar: The Story of Joe Meek and The Kid director Nick Moran. Burning Wheel Productions, which is run by Shelley Hammond, Hollie Richmond and former Happy Mondays manager Nathan McGough, is producing, Metro International are leading all worldwide sales for the feature, which starts shooting in London in late May.

Danny Boyle is teaming up with Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh once again, exec producing the upcoming biopic Creation Stories. 

Written by Welsh and Dean Cavanagh and based on the autobiography of music mogul and former Oasis label boss Alan McGee, the film has also added Rupert Everett (The Happy Prince), Suki Waterhouse (Assassination Nation) and Jason Flemyng (Snatch) to its cast. Ewen Bremner, best know for playing Spud in Boyle's Trainspotting, is set to play McGee. 

McGee's label, Creation Records, launched bands such as Oasis, Primal Scream and The Jesus & Mary Chain, standing at the forefront of ...

Danny Boyle is teaming up with Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh once again, exec producing the upcoming biopic Creation Stories. 

Written by Welsh and Dean Cavanagh and based on the autobiography of music mogul and former Oasis label boss Alan McGee, the film has also added Rupert Everett (The Happy Prince), Suki Waterhouse (Assassination Nation) and Jason Flemyng (Snatch) to its cast. Ewen Bremner, best know for playing Spud in Boyle's Trainspotting, is set to play McGee. 

McGee's label, Creation Records, launched bands such as Oasis, Primal Scream and The Jesus & Mary Chain, standing at the forefront of ...

Below is the music video for Liam Gallagher's Come Back To Me, directed by Shane Meadows. The video takes Liam Gallagher back to King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, the venue where Alan McGee discovered Oasis.

Liam had this to say about working with Meadows.

"It was an honour to work with Shane for this video – he’s one of the best British directors around,” said Liam. “It was great to return to the scene of the crime King Tut’s where it all began and the fans never disappoint.”Shane Meadows added:

“I have only made two official pop promos since I started making films back in 1994. When the chance to make the video for ‘Come Back To Me’ came up, the timing was awful as I was right in the middle of editing my new series. But there’s certain things in life you can’t not do...

The excitement of Noel and Liam Gallagher’s rapid rise to pop stardom is well captured in Mat Whitecross’s documentary, but it is disappointingly coy on the band’s decline and breakup

Here is a watchable, intimate but oddly truncated history of Oasis, directed by Mat Whitecross, who gave us the recent Madchester drama Spike Island and the excellent Ian Dury biopic Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll. Noel Gallagher is the film’s executive producer, and it should probably be entitled Oasis: The Golden Years, because it ends with the band’s colossal concert at Knebworth in 1996, almost implying they went up in a blaze of glory after that.

We don’t hear about the Cool Britannia tussle with Blur, or Noel’s strikingly explicit endorsement of Tony Blair and New Labour (“There are seven people in here who are givin’ hope to the young people of this country. Me,...

Former Oasis manager Alan McGee has slammed Aurora's cover of their hit 'Half The World Away' in the new John Lewis Christmas advert. Alan thinks the cover - sang by the rising Norwegian singer - is ''rubbish'' and hopes the songs creator Noel Gallagher has been awarded a hefty sum in royalties for letting them use it because it's so bad. He said. ''I think it's rubbish. I don't know what anybody else thinks of it, though. I'm pleased for Noel that he got his royalties, I hope they gave him a million quid but I thought actually it was rubbish.'' Alan's comments...

Former Oasis manager Alan McGee has slammed Aurora's cover of their hit 'Half The World Away' in the new John Lewis Christmas advert. Alan thinks the cover - sang by the rising Norwegian singer - is ''rubbish'' and hopes the songs creator Noel Gallagher has been awarded a hefty sum in royalties for letting them use it because it's so bad. He said. ''I think it's rubbish. I don't know what anybody else thinks of it, though. I'm pleased for Noel that he got his royalties, I hope they gave him a million quid but I thought actually it was rubbish.'' Alan's comments...

Noel Gallagher has dismissed Labour leader Ed Miliband as a "f**king communist".

The former Oasis guitarist said that he would not be voting in next week's General Election, and also criticised prime minister David Cameron for his stance on the original leaders' debate proposals.

"I'm not sure I can get behind any of them at the minute," Gallagher says on Channel 4's Alan Carr Chatty Man tonight (May 1).

"I dunno. The fact that Cameron didn't turn up for the debate is a disgrace. I think that Miliband, if he gets in, is just going to fail us."

Carr replies: "Give him a bloody chance. Look at his little face, how can you say that?"

Gallagher retorts: "Because he is a f**king communist."

He then insults Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon and says: "The other unpleasant little woman from over the border. Cheap shoes... and then there's the Greens - whatever.

A cameo-packed tale of a music fan who dreams of being a rock manager is good-natured but hardly revolutionary

In this lo-fi music-biz comedy, which began life as an online series, scriptwriter Jonny Owen plays a naive music fan who dreams of being a rock manager. With sparky prestige support (Martin Freeman, Maxine Peake, Matt Berry) and cameos from Alan McGee and Carl Barât, Svengali ought to be sharper, but this good-natured, clunky labour of love feels about as fresh as a 2002 copy of the NME. It's curiously timeless, though, and with its Soho locations, could almost have been made in the British pop boom of the late 50s – like Expresso Bongo for Libertines nostalgists.

Rating: 1/5

ComedyJonathan Romney

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Slightly overshadowed by the Oscar nominations early this morning, the 2014 New Music Express Awards unveiled their list of hopefuls today (January 16).

In an interesting twist, the NME’s category for Villain of the Year included nominees like Russell Brand, Robin Thicke, Harry Styles, Miley Cyrus, David Cameron and Vladimir Putin.

Furthermore, the Worst Band contenders are 30 Seconds to Mars, The 1975, Muse, Imagine Dragons, One Direction and The Wanted.

Of course, there are also plenty of positive categories such as Hero of the Year, with nominees like Alex Turner, David Bowie, Pussy Riot, Lou Reed, Este Haim, and Russell Brand.

The 2014 NME Awards nominees are:

Best British Band

Arctic Monkeys

Biffy Clyro

Disclosure

Foals

Palma Violets

Two Door Cinema Club

Best International Band supported by Austin, Texas

Arcade Fire

Haim

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Phoenix

Vampire Weekend

Queens Of The Stone Age

Best Solo Artist

David Bowie

Jake Bugg

Kanye West...

Many television programmes have made the leap to cinema over the years, but this is surely the first time that a Welsh internet series has branched out onto the big screen.

Svengali sees YouTube stars Dixie (Jonny Owen) and Shell (Vicky McClure) relocate to London so that the former can realise his dream of managing a great rock band. With an old friend already making a name for himself in the industry, and coincidence leaving him with Alan McGee’s phone number, Dixie is convinced that his time has come, and that it’s now or never.

Writer, producer and star, Jonny Owen has done an undeniably admiral job adapting the series for cinema audiences, even managing to breathe some life into what is a relatively tired narrative convention. Dixie is a likeable lead, forever running through the streets of London with his trusty Tesco carrier bags and a near-endless...

From Meryl Streep's Iron Lady to Spitting Image and the Spice Girls, Observer writers and critics pick the films, books, art, music and TV that show Thatcher's lasting influence

Art, chosen by Laura Cumming

Treatment Room (1983)

In Richard Hamilton's installation, Thatcher administered her own harsh medicine from a video above the operating table with the viewer as helpless patient: a case of kill or cure.

Taking Stock (1984)

Hans Haacke portrayed Thatcher enthroned, nose in the air like a gun-dog, surrounded by images of Queen Victoria, the Saatchi brothers and, ominously, Pandora. Caused national furore.

In the Sleep of Reason (1982)

Mark Wallinger edited Thatcher's 1982 Falklands speech from blink to blink, fading to black in between, emphasising her solipsistic tendency to close her eyes when speaking as if nobody else existed.

The Battle of Orgreave (2001)

Jeremy Deller's restaged the worst conflict of the miners' strike from multiple viewpoints, uniting...

Alan McGee has confirmed that his new record label will not be called Creation. The founder of the classic label said last month that he was "seriously thinking about restarting Creation" after being inspired by helping to curate the Tokyo Rocks event. He has now added to Louder Than War that the label will not be called Creation, explaining: "It's been done is my conclusion and it will be a different model now - it's not 1999. "We have some serious backers wanting to do it. It is not a nostalgia exercise." He added: "I have loads on my plate right at this moment and we want to get this set up properly and we are (more)...

Alan McGee has suggested that legendary label Creation Records could return. The independent label was one of the biggest music success stories of the '90s, as was recently depicted in documentary Upside Down: The Creation Records Story. The label released seminal records from bands such as Oasis, My Bloody Valentine, Primal Scream and the Super Furry Animals in the 25 years it was operational. Creation was dissolved in 1999, but now looks set for a comeback as McGee, who has been described as an "inspiring nutjob", has announced plans to return to the music business. In a statement to Louder Than War, the former (more)...

British star Martin Freeman is the latest addition to the comedy feature adaptation of YouTube UK cult hit web series Svengali. Production begins in London next week, Variety reports. Svengali features real life rock stars and music biz personalities who play themselves. British stars Vicky McClure and Michael Smiley join Freeman, known for his roles as Tim Canterbury from the BBC's The Office and Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's upcoming adaptation of The Hobbit. "A friend of mine told me about Svengali after about the third episode," Freeman said. "When he’d described it I was actually annoyed that I hadn’t been asked to do it. I went home, watched the lot, and knew I was right to be annoyed. It was charming, sussed, and very funny." Other cast notables include Roger Evans, Alan Mcgee, Sally Phillips, Ciaran Griffith, Michelle Gomez, Sean Harris, Colin Tiernan, Jodie Whittaker, Boy George,...

A Canadian dentist has paid £19,500 ($$31,258) at auction for one of Beatles member John Lennon's teeth. Michael Zuk bid on the item by phone, during an auction in Stockport of a collection of rock memorabilia owned by former Creation Records boss Alan McGee. The tooth was originally given by Lennon to his housekeeper Dot Jarlett during the 1960s as a souvenir for her daughter. "Once I heard it (more)...

This year, Pop Montreal, an annual smrgasboard of concerts and music-themed films, celebrates its 10th anniversary. While the concert side of the equation is typically stacked (including, but not remotely limited to, a free Arcade Fire concert), the film portion is no slouch either. This year, film topics include legendary folkie Phil Ochs, The Replacements, Alan McGee and Creation Records, Aice Donut, and the Vancouver punk scene, among others. The fest runs from Sept. 21st-25th here in Montreal – the complete lineup and press release are below.

Montreal, August 11th, 2011 – Where music and movies make out in the dark: Film Pop returns. From September 21st to the 25th, as the Pop Montreal festival turns 10, Film Pop will once again resurface an always-pertinent array of underground musical films and captivating documentaries. Throughout the 5 days of the festival, Film Pop events will be held in 3 main venues: Blue Sunshine (3660 St-Laurent), the Pop...

I Saw The Devil

DVD & Blu-ray, Optimum

It's no big surprise that most film industries rely, at least in part, on crime-related movies; they can be made at all different budget levels and are full of impactful, life-changing events for the characters.

What's interesting is how how each nation has their own enduring signature: we have our mockney gangsters; France tends to explore corruption in the law; Japan and Italy deal in epically large, organised criminal outfits. But it's South Korea that perhaps has the most interesting: the revenge thriller. While you'd think the genre would be all played out by now, I Saw The Devil shows the strength in many of the familiar moves by pushing them to extremes. A pregnant fiancé of a government agent becomes the latest victim of a particularly cold and gruesome serial killer (Oldboy's Choi Min-sik). The agent dedicates his life not only to...

The Jesus & Mary Chain and Oasis are in this doumentary, but it's their label, Creation, and its founder Alan McGee who are the fascinating subject

While you'll find many a record-label documentary propping up the schedules of BBC4, they don't often make it into cinemas. This one is presumably relying on the dose of retro charm provided by a back catalogue filled with everthing from mid-80s indie types like the Jesus and Mary Chain to 1990s rock'n'roll behemoths Oasis. Creation founder Alan McGee has never been shy of publicity and, indeed, he dominates the film, recounting with disarming enthusiasm his early forays into the record business, and offering more than a few war stories involving copious drug and alcohol abuse. The way McGee tells it, it's amazing any records ever got put out, but presumably it's thanks to his sober sidekick, Dick Green. With a talking-heads format, it's pretty trad to look at,...