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When Creation went dance
Whilst Creation is renowned for its guitar music, from the late 80s to the early 90s the label embraced the explosion of dance music. This was captured in the Keeping The Faith compilation and to coincide with the release a weekly music show on the BBC in the UK called Snub TV broadcast a feature.…
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It was 20 years ago today!
26th November 2000 was the date I first launched this website, twenty years ago! The month before two books and a compilation album on the subject of Creation Records were released but there was still very little information about the music online. I had no plans other than to fill that gap. The legacy…
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Martin St John publishes new book on The Cramps
Ex-Primal Scream member Martin St John has followed-up his biography by releasing a new book on his favourite band The Cramps. Forever Cramped follows his obsession since seeing for The Cramps for the first time in 1979 at Glasgow Apollo. Fifteen years later The Cramps signed to Creation briefly. The book is available to order…
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Watch Primal Scream : The Memphis Tapes
To accompany the recent release of the Memphis Recordings for Give Out But Don’t Give Up by Primal Scream, the BBC have shown an hour long documentary.
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Primal Scream to release The Original Memphis Sessions
25 years later Primal Scream are set to release the original Tom Dowd recordings of the Give Out But Don’t Give Up album from 1993.
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Goodbye NME, thanks for the good times…
After 66 years the print edition of the New Music Express is coming to an end. For many decades it was the leading weekly music paper. It championed Punk, Acid House, Hip-Hop, Madchester, Grunge and Beatlemania. Sadly around the turn of the century it seemed to drop much of the music analysis to try and…
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Bobby Gillespie joins the Jesus & Mary Chain onstage
Bobby Gillespie joined The Jesus & Mary Chain onstage last night for the first time in over three decades at the Vilar de Mouros festival in Poland.
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Listen to Martin St John talk about his Primal Scream days
Following the release of his book ‘The Psychedelic Confessions Of A Primal Screamer’ Martin St John recently appeared on Radio Six International talking about his time with the band.
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Listen to the samples and influences of Screamadelica
Today is the anniversary of Screamadelica turning 25 and to celebrate below is a lengthy playlist gathering the tracks that made the album.
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Interview with Tim Worthington, author of Higher Than The Sun
Autumn 1991 saw Creation release three of its most iconic albums in Screamadelica, Loveless and Bandwagonesque. To celebrate 25 years since those releases I caught up with Tim Worthington the author of a book about those three albums and Foxbase Alpha by Saint Etienne on Jeff Barrett’s Heavenly Records.
