Alan McGee

So what you found is that the likes of For Coffee Pound and Akiv were getting kind of frustrated that they were playing to the same audiences all the time and they were maybe having that a bit of like inertia where they weren't really sort of progressing and that is when they started going in like predominantly at the start bilingually and then more into the English language.

So I think it was only the second gig these super ferries had done outside Wales, and it was in Camden, and Alan McGee was there, who was the owner of Creation Records, like, you know, probably the coolest label at the time, because it was awash with money as well, because of Oasis.

And Alan McGee says, I'll sign you if you sing in English.

Only to be told, like, by Griff Rees and his thick sort of Bethesda tones, we were singing in English.

So, yeah, like, it was quite odd, really.

And that's right.

That's where Alan McGee saw them.

Alan McGee was the manager who is a big football fan.

Big Rangers fan, big

football fan.

I would die for that man.

Alan Ritchson or the character Jack Reacher?

Character Jack Reacher.

Alan Ritchson also seems really lovely.

What, what appeal does Reacher hold for you?

Okay, I'm so glad you asked.

Or I was saying that's correct because he's about to be on the market.

He got into a fight.

You do.

And to be fair, Alan McGee, head of creation records, he was fully behind Kevin Rowland's solo career and was attempting to push him forward.

He disputes that number, which has been widely reported.

He said the album eventually sold more like 20,000 copies.

This will be, you know, the definitive Oasis documentary.

And basically what it was, was that period between Alan McGee seeing them at the, in, in Glasgow at King Tut's and Knebworth, and the rise of the band over that, what would that be? Like a two-and-a-half year period.

Um, which is insane, an insane thing to happen, right? For them to get, be an unsigned band, become Glastonbury headliners, and headline Knebworth, and become the biggest band in Britain.

I'm not gonna say the world.

Yes.

But not with Liam and Noel, he did it with Alan McGee.

Mm.

But the funny thing is, Alan McGee doesn't remember a lot.

[laughs] He does...

I mean, he's, he's great now, isn't he, Alan McGee? And I think- Back in the day ...

and if I've said this wrong, I, I, I apologize, I'm not...

I, I don't mean to be rude or offensive.

Maybe I should go back to the, to the, to the way I know, the, the do it yourself kind of way." So, '91 continues on, and I'm touring, and I'm touring, and I'm in Europe, and I'm playing festivals with, you know, Nirvana and Dinosaur Jr, and all the, you know, the bands that were just, you know, getting really big, that were loud guitar bands.

And I'm like, "Huh, feels like something's about to happen here." Got, uh, got together with a f- uh, with Alan McGee, who, uh, who was running Creation Records in the UK.

Got together with the folks at Rykodisc in the US, and we worked out s- uh, parallel record deals, you know, very modest budgets.

And, uh, I had all these songs, and I had to find some musicians.

Um, you know, you never know, right?

You never know.

Uh, you know, the only things I knew, y- uh, you know, Alan McGee, who ran Creation, uh, was, was so certain of the songs.

When I, when I, when I went over and I played demos for him, uh, you know, for Alan, he was just, he was very quick to say, "We're, we're all in with this.