SETTLING into the Glasgow Film Theatre seats on Tuesday, I was optimisitic but curious about how the passionate, aspirational and rather messy, story of Creation Records was going to be told.
As it was, film maker Danny O'Conner portrayed the story beautifully, starting from the early days of McGee chaperoning a young Bobby Gillespie to a Thin Lizzy concert to the rather emotional ending of Creation.
Grainy footage of Glasgow's Southside flashed onscreen taking the audience on a journey from Alan's life in Glasgow to arriving in London in the 1980's.
Old snapshots of Lanarkshire towns, East Kilbride and Bellshill are captured too showing the audience where bands such as The Jesus and Mary Chain and Teenage Fanclub hailed from.
The soundtrack, as expected, was phenomenal with many Creation bands such as Ride, Swervedriver and The House of Love cropping up throughout - not to mention those who found major fame such as The Jesus and Mary Chain, Primal Scream and Oasis.
In some ways the concept was simple but worked well as the story was told through the talking heads with old pieces of film complementing the anecdotes.
A varied range of talking heads were used to bring the docu-film together, featuring McGee, Creation co-owner, Dick Green, Joe Foster and Noel Gallagher among others.
A raw film sprinkled with humour and latterly sadness at the demise of Creation Records - ten out of ten from ICScotland.
