After he and Innes moved to London, McGee grew more involved in performing, fanzines and club bookings throughout the early 1980s. He’d already met future Primal Scream founder Bobby Gillespie in school and their own first band experience, the Drains, was with another yet-to-be Primal Screamer, Andrew Innes. McGee was born in 1960 and raised in East Kilbride near Glasgow, making him a perfect age for punk rock to hit hard when it exploded in the UK in the late seventies, with McGee also noting the early efforts of Glasgow’s own punk-inspired acts like Simple Minds and labels like Postcard. Given to self-mythologizing, and ultimately signing a few of the biggest self-mythologizers in music to boot, Creation wasn’t quite able to maintain itself in the end but the wild ride that resulted was more than enough of an experience. Creation was less driven by an exact sonic or aesthetic brief as it was by the idea of whatever sounded good at the time to McGee in particular, and as a result offerings either on the main label or its various affiliated sub-labels and spinoffs would range from bizarre sonic pranks to earnest tributes to earlier rock approaches to dance music experiments to much more besides. Creation was formed in 1983 by Alan McGee – the face of the label as much as Tony Wilson was for Factory – with his B iff Bang Pow! bandmates Dick Green and Television Personalities veteran Joe Foster also receiving shares (the latter was bought out in the late 1980s but would continue a regular association with the label). But much like its slightly older but similarly short-lived Manchester compatriot Factory Records, by the time the London-founded and based Creation Records ended in 1999 it had, through a combination of circumstances and without any actual plan to do so, both commercially and subculturally impacted what rock music was on a worldwide basis, with effects still very much playing out to the present day. A decade and a half is a good run for any record label not every imprint survives.
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