Stewart Nash

I originally taped most of this show from the radio way back in 1994 and it’s a far superior documentary than the 2004 one broadcast on Radio 2. This was originally broadcast on Radio 1 before the era when Creation became Oasis’ record label and all the fantastic bands that made the label great were cast off on the scrapheap as they didn’t sell enough records compared to their new signings, as a certain group once said ‘Money Changes Everything’.

Creation always had an edge over its peers in the ’80′s and early ’90′s as it seemed like a community just like Motown did in the ’60′s and Douglas Hart’s amazing videos sent their music off into another planet. Creation also knew when to call it a day unlike Motown who later gave us ‘Hello’ and the truly awful ‘I Just Called To Say I Love You’.

Recently someone very kindly sent me the opening section I had missing which includes a lot of the great pre-Mary Chain bands. Personally I love the label for their work between ’88 and ’92, although most of the music was innovative it still teased the mainstream without letting its core audience down. For me Sugar (which coincided with the Sony deal) was the start of the decline as they were just dull. I won’t lie and say I didn’t enjoy seeing my favourite label produce one of the biggest bands of the decade but as independent record labels go, Domino seemed to handle the success of the Arctic Monkeys a lot better a decade later as have XL with the likes of Adele, but maybe they learnt a lot from Creation.

Enjoy….