#creation23

[merlinpride]

Title: the ordeal of being (but with you)

Author: @slantedknitting

Archive Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Rating: Teen and Up

Pairing: Merlin/Arthur Pendragon

Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Mushrooms, Hallucinations, Hallucinogens, Mushroom Induced Hallucinations, Arthur Pendragon Retursns, Sharing a Bed, Arthur cuts Merlin's Hair, Merlin has PTSD, Merlin has Nightmares, Arthur Comforts Him, Nightmares, Arthur Wants to Live on a Farm, Getting Together

Summary:

Merlin lives alone - if what he’s doing can really be called living. He sleeps, he eats, he whittles. Sometimes he dreams, but he wish he wouldn’t, especially when the line between dreams and the waking world starts to blur.

This isn’t how Merlin wanted to be found by a miraculously returned Arthur, but this is his reality.

Written for @paxopalotls for the Merlin Pride Exchange!

[scotianostra]

Happy Birthday Alan McGee born 29 September 1960 in East Kilbride.

  Alan grew up in Glasgow and attended King's Park Secondary School, where he met future Primal Scream founder Bobby Gillespie. McGee left school at 16 with one O grade McGee and Gillespie were heavily into punk rock, and they joined a local punk band, The Drains, in 1978.

McGee went on from there to found a successful club, The Living Room, in London, then buoyed by the success of their club, McGee funded the record label Creation, with two friends. Named after the ‘60s mod rock outfit, Creation Records’ first release was by the Legend! It was a 7" so bad that McGee reportedly hid most of the records underneath his bed, eventually melting them down after a dispute with the band.

He then signed up The Jesus & Mary Chain to his fledgling label. Due to their quite timely sound and some major championing from the star-making NME, the Mary Chain’s “Upside Down” was Creation’s first outright hit single, spending seven weeks atop the U.K. indie charts. Although the band eventually signed to the major subsidiary Blanco y Negro, McGee was able to reinvest the profits which provided them with enough to sign a string of artists who enjoyed success in the Indie charts. Primal Scream’s Screamadelica was a major breakthrough for McGee and the label.

Not the most financially astute man McGee was still losing money, even after he sold 49% of Creation to Sony the signing of bands like Sugar, the Boo Radleys, Teenage Fanclub should have helped but didn’t.

Things only changed when a band from Manchester fronted by a pair of brothers forced their way on-stage at a gig in Glasgow attended by McGee. Impressed by their attitude, he signed Oasis on the spot, resulting in a partnership that would launch both the band and the label into previously unimaginable success. Thanks to the deal in place with Sony, which quickly moved to shape up the anything-goes business style of the Creation offices, Oasis released a series of singles and a debut album that were met with pandemonium across the globe.

McGee a brick wall however when the hectic life of running a successful label and the years of high stress and out-of-control drug use saw him suffering a complete nervous breakdown. He spent the next two years in recovery. He gradually became less and less involved in Creation as Sony executives took over the label.

Alan McGee’s role in shaping British musical culture over the past thirty years is hard to overstate. As the founder of Creation Records he brought us the bands that defined an era. A charismatic Glaswegian who partied just as hard as any of the acts on his notoriously hedonistic label, he became an infamous character in the world of music.McGee continues to have an impact on independent music like perhaps no other, he has been managing bands in recent years including The Jesus and Mary Chain and The Happy Mondays, in 2018 he launched a new record label, Creation23 saying “I want to put records out again…I’ve missed it, 23 is my lucky number”

Bobby Gillespie sums Alan McGee up nicely “McGee was our Malcolm McLaren and Tony Wilson. An instigator and motivator, a born up setter. I’ve never met anyone like him and neither have you.”

Alan admits that during those years ‘We all took too many drugs, my behaviour was quite mad’  In a recent interview he says  I'm glad I'm sober and not an absolute nut job

McGee’s autobiography, Creation Stories, was optioned by Burning Wheel Productions and was adapted into a film screenplay by Monday’s birthday boy  Irvine Welsh and Dean Cavanagh. Ewen Bremner, best known as Spud in Trainspotting, takes the central role, Danny Boyle is executive producer.

It’s an “okay” film, definitely not of the standard of Trainspotting, but as you would expect with Bremner in the lead role, it raises a few laughs.  Richard Jobson plays Alan’s father, Welsh, as usual makes a cameo appearance.

[desertislandcloud]

The Clockworks have a strong, punchy dynamic, drawing on intense post-punk influenced music to soundtrack snarling kitchen sink observations. 

Having been signed to Alan McGee’s new record label ‘Creation23’ immediately after their move to London (from Ireland), the quartet has impressed audiences in London and beyond with an array of gigs and live performances including shows at Eurosonic, Electric Picnic, Sefton Park in Liverpool where they opened for Kings of Leon, as well as playing live on Soccer AM on Sky 1. Along with this, the band have made way into radio, so far been endorsed by Steve Lamacq on BBC 6, John Kennedy on Radio X, Rodney Bingenheimer on SiriusXM in the states, while at home being played regularly by Dan Hegarty on RTE2, and Ed Smith on Today FM.

https://www.facebook.com/theclockdoesntwork https://www.instagram.com/theclockworks/ https://twitter.com/daclockworks

[passportapproved]

THE CLOCKWORKS

Formed in Galway, the four–piece outfit The Clockworks were brought together by a mutual appreciation of both past and present music. Two years ago they relocated to London and grabbed the attention of industry veteran Alan McGee through Instagram, where the man who launched the careers of Oasis, Primal Scream, My Bloody Valentine and Super Furry created a DIY label called Creation23. The Clockworks have since impressed audiences throughout Europe, performing at a number of festivals, including Eurosonic and Electric Picnic where they supported Kings Of Leon in Liverpool. Their latest single, “Enough Is Never Enough,” has been compared to the likes of IDLES and The Hives, which follows the lives of separate but interconnected individuals in society. The track pulls together the fragments of our fractured society and creates a vivid collage that depicts its failings in one painstaking picture.

LINK: www.facebook.com/theclockdoesntwork LISTEN: "Enough Is Never Enough"

[puce22]

Boucle d'oreille en Bois avec véritable perle de verre

Fabriquez avec des matériaux de qualité sans Nickel sans Plomb sans danger pour les oreilles sensibles

Disponible sur Facebook et instagram

https://www.facebook.com/creation23

https://www.instagram.com/puce.puceron

[redsoapbox]

YOUNG GARBO FRONTMAN ANNOUNCES HIS DEPARTURE ON STAGE AT PONTY’S BIG WEEKEND!

Young Garbo - Milo, Garyn, Arwel and Levi

When ex-Creation supremo and all-round pop guru Alan McGee signs your band to his brand new label (Creation23) you have to think your ship has well and truly come in. Young Garbo, a ‘punk-funk’ band, from Pontypridd and the Rhondda Valleys signed with a rejuvenated McGee - ‘guitar music is back and I’m fucking buzzing’ - at the turn of the year. Their first single “Faustus” followed in March, a distinctive, rollickingly literate number which clued Wales and the world into the huge potential of a bunch of ‘chancers from the valleys’, as larger-than-life singer Garyn Williams would have it.

With Williams, Levi Ball (bass), Arwel Brown (guitar) and Milo ‘Rowdy’ Rowdell-John (drums), seemingly set for a shot at pop stardom that many young bands could only dream of, news of Williams’ departure, together with that of Ball, came as a massive surprise. The split does appear to be entirely amicable, though. Grabbing a word with Garyn as soon as he stepped off stage, the singer was happy to chat about the reason for his jaw-dropping decision. The 22-year-old is currently studying at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and intends to pursue a professional career in acting. The frontman believed he had come to a ‘mature decision’, explaining that the group members were ‘still great mates’, but that his unreliability, as he struggled to juggle his competing interests, meant that ‘he was holding them back and they were holding him back’. He confirmed that the band already has a replacement lined up. A statement on the group’s Facebook page confirmed the news and wished Williams and Ball ‘most happy futures’. There is also a cryptic reference to the band ‘re-opening soon enough’. So far, there has been no comment from McGee or Creation23.

As for the gig itself, it didn’t take the combo long to justify McGee’s boast that his proteges were ‘absolute Welsh genius’. Kicking off a short, feisty set, with their best tune, the jaunty, lyrically nifty “Quentin Blake”, the band soon won over the rain-drenched souls who had braved a typical valleys downpour (luckily, limited shelter was available in visit Wales.com tent!) just as proceedings were due to get underway. “Last Summer” kept the momentum going, as the crowd began to tentatively leave the shelter of the trees that line Ynysangharad Park and gather in front of the stage. “Big Blue House”, a raucously crowd-pleasing tune, replete with Williams’ screeches and screams, and the occasional well-aimed waft of tambourine across the head is an easy-listen live. The brash “Faustus” (another nod to Williams’ clever wordsmithery) and the bellicose anthem “When Saturday Comes” rounded off the last ever Young Garbo gig with this swaggering line-up.

Although it is possible for a band to overcome the loss of a singer/lyricist/compelling live performer like Williams (Joy Division did exactly that only in much more desperate circumstances) it remains to be seen whether Young Garbo can re-invent themselves in the same way as Manchester’s post-punk legends. 

Young Garbo - “Quentin Blake”

[heavyheartmusic]

Cowboys & Indies Monthly Indiessential charts 2019 - March SinglesThe Best Of The British Indie/Alternative Scene

1. STIMULUS FOR LIVING ... Drahla (Captured Tracks) 2. RUBBER BULLETS ... Clinic (Domino) 3. TORTURE ... Cabbage (Brassicka Records) 4. DOWSABEL ... Heavy Heart (Heavy Heart) 5. SUNSIGHS EP ... The Fernweh (Skeleton Key) 6. TASTES GOOD WITH THE MONEY ... Fat White Family (Domino) 7. HOUSEPLANTS ... Squid (Practise Music) 8. SHOW LOVE ... Stealing Sheep (Heavenly Recordings) 9. ENGLISH DISEASE ... Hotel Lux (Hotel Lux) 10. BRAND NEW ... Lexytron (Persian Punk Records) 11. FAUSTUS ... Young Garbo (Creation23) 12. IT WON'T ALWAYS BE LIKE THIS ... Inhaler (Inhaler Records) 13. SHANGRI LA ... Lona (Lona) 14. FREAKING OUT ... Rubber Jaw (Creation23) 15. GOTTA KNOW YOU ... The Estevans (Organ Records) 16. FIRE IN MY MIND ... YOTA feat Noel Gallagher (YOTA Music) 17. FRIENDS WHO LOST CONTROL ... Neon Waltz (Ignition Records) 18. STEP BY STEP ... The Jasmine Minks (A Turntable Friend Records) 19. PASSENGER ... Kidsmoke (Kidsmoke) 20. EYE 2 EYE / BEST OF ME ... Witching Waves (Specialist Subject)

https://cowboysandindies.blogspot.com/2019/04/cowboys-indies-monthly-indiessential.html

[indiecirclesplug]

One / Day. Day 11 THE CLOCKWORKS - STRANDED IN STANSED Irish boys from Galway with an attitude. Post Punk attitude.

[coolmusiccentral]

The Clockworks - Can I Speak to a Manager?

Out August 14th 2020 on Creation23. Check out here Alan McGee’s interview to NME on the second anniversary of his new label.

[merlinpride]

Title: Three's (not) a crowd

Author: Salamandair

Rating: Explicit

Pairings: Gwaine/Lancelot/Merlin, Gwaine/Lancelot, Gwaine/Merlin, Lancelot/Merlin, Freya/Merlin/Will

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe- Canon Divergence, Light Angst, Fluff, Mutual pining, Demisexual Merlin, Polyamory, Polyamory Negotiations, Friends to Lovers, Implied Sexual Content, Explicit Sexual Content, Blow Jobs, Anal Sex, Threesome- M/M/M, Threesome-F/M/M, Merlin's Magic Revealed (Merlin) Court Sorcerer Merlin (Merlin)

Summary:

Merlin always thought that he’d never have anyone after Will and Freya.

Enter Gwaine and Lancelot telling him to think again.

[scotianostra]

Happy Birthday Alan McGee born 29th September 1960 in East Kilbride.

He grew up in Glasgow and attended King’s Park Secondary School, where he met future Primal Scream founder Bobby Gillespie. McGee left school at 16 with one O grade McGee and Gillespie were heavily into punk rock, and they joined a local punk band, The Drains, in 1978.

McGee went on from there to found a successful club, The Living Room, in London, then buoyed by the success of their club, McGee funded the record label Creation, with two friends. Named after the ‘60s mod rock outfit, Creation Records’ first release was by the Legend! It was a 7" so bad that McGee reportedly hid most of the records underneath his bed, eventually melting them down after a dispute with the band.

He then signed up The Jesus & Mary Chain to his fledgling label. Due to their quite timely sound and some major championing from the star-making NME, the Mary Chain’s “Upside Down” was Creation’s first outright hit single, spending seven weeks atop the U.K. indie charts. Although the band eventually signed to the major subsidiary Blanco y Negro, McGee was able to reinvest the profits which provided them with enough to sign a string of artists who enjoyed success in the Indie charts. Primal Scream’s Screamadelica was a major breakthrough for McGee and the label.

Not the most financially astute man McGee was still losing money, even after he sold 49% of Creation to Sony the signing of bands like Sugar, the Boo Radleys, Teenage Fanclub should have helped but didn’t.

Things only changed when a band from Manchester fronted by a pair of brothers forced their way on-stage at a gig in Glasgow attended by McGee. Impressed by their attitude, he signed Oasis on the spot, resulting in a partnership that would launch both the band and the label into previously unimaginable success. Thanks to the deal in place with Sony, which quickly moved to shape up the anything-goes business style of the Creation offices, Oasis released a series of singles and a debut album that were met with pandemonium across the globe.

McGee a brick wall however when the hectic life of running a successful label and the years of high stress and out-of-control drug use saw him suffering a complete nervous breakdown. He spent the next two years in recovery. He gradually became less and less involved in Creation as Sony executives took over the label.

Alan McGee’s role in shaping British musical culture over the past thirty years is hard to overstate. As the founder of Creation Records he brought us the bands that defined an era. A charismatic Glaswegian who partied just as hard as any of the acts on his notoriously hedonistic label, he became an infamous character in the world of music.McGee continues to have an impact on independent music like perhaps no other, he has been managing bands in recent years including The Jesus and Mary Chain and The Happy Mondays, in 2018 he launched a new record label, Creation23 saying “I want to put records out again…I’ve missed it, 23 is my lucky number”

Bobby Gillespie sums Alan McGee up nicely “McGee was our Malcolm McLaren and Tony Wilson. An instigator and motivator, a born up setter. I’ve never met anyone like him and neither have you.”

McGee’s autobiography, Creation Stories, was optioned by Burning Wheel Productions and has been adapted into a film screenplay by Monday’s birthday boy  Irvine Welsh and Dean Cavanagh. Ewen Bremner, best known as Spud in Trainspotting, takes the central role, Danny Boyle is executive producer.

It’s an “okay” film, definitely not of the standard of Trainspotting, but as you would expect with Bremner in the lead role, it raises a few laughs.  Richard Jobson plays Alan’s father, Welsh, as usual makes a cameo appearance. 

If you want to see the film, you can watch it on the following link   https://tinyzonetv.to/movie/watch-creation-stories-2021-fr

[poppedmusic]

Interview: The K’s

Interview: The K’s

Words and Photography by Gary Lambert

The summer of 2019 is setting up to be a memorable one for The K’s. After successfully claiming a main stage set at the INmusic Festival in Croatia, the Earlstown boys are not just settling for that. They have now signed a deal with Alan McGee’s Creation23 record label; been on national television (Soccer AM); and been announced for loads…

[puce22]

Boucle d'oreille en Coquillage

Fabriquez avec des vrais perles de verre tige sans danger pour les oreilles sensibles sans Nickel sans Plomb le Nickel et le plomb sont la première cause d'infections

À VENDRE sur Facebook où instagram

https ://www.facebook.com/creation23

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[spunkymunkey]

Tweeted

Alan McGee launches new record label, Creation23 https://t.co/GsFeproMOz

— SPUNKY ⓂUNKEY (@spunkymunkeymus) August 3, 2018