I’ve just seen the trailer for Upside Down, the forthcoming documentary on Creation Records.
Looks potentially great, although I really hope that it’s not all about the drugs and the craziness of post-Oasis Creation Records. A lot of the really early (read: wimpy) stuff on Creation – The Loft, The Weather Prophets, Felt and later shoegaze stuff – Ride, Slowdive etc. – is arguable the more interesting/influential stuff, on the label, and by the time Oasis went big the original spirit was pretty much gone. Anyway, fingers crossed for an inclusion in this year’s Auckland International Film Festival.
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Agree, the label was much more interesting before Oasis. Wonder what Momus will have to say, or even if he’s there. Ballad of the Band by Felt and Almost Prayed by The Weather Prophet are still two of my faves. Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine and Ride. They practically invented shoegaze and post-rock. What great experimentalism, which eventually turned into Indie Rock orthodoxy.
At least the film is named after the Mary Chain’s first single. But this trailer sucks. It looks like another horrible old-guys-reminiscing about drugs and rock n roll documentary. I always thought of Creation initially as non-masculinist pop, that was trying to emasculate rock, in the best possible way. It wasn’t all about Loaded and Definitely Maybe. Though i do love bits of those records.
I wonder if Andy Weatherall is in here. I’m sure he’d puncture the nostalgia shite.
And I hope the film gives some sense of the regionalism.
Nabeel, totally … that early ‘wimpy’ (bad word) seemed like an interesting attempt to make non-masculine rock’n'roll. I guess Orange Juice were one of the first bands on that particular bandwagon.
Have you read David Cavanagh’s “The Creation Records Story: My Magpie Eyes are Hungry for the Prize”? A great read, but the early years were much more interesting. It all became very laddish and blokey once the money started rolling in.