The Creation Records Story: My Magpie Eyes are Hungry for the Prize

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I found it a great read, detailed about the bands relationships with the label and how the office politics changed at Creation (more interesting than that sounds - honest). Only last month, a video of a young boy being relentlessly swooped by a magpie – and filmed by his father – went viral. While it is true they caused immense financial problems for Creation, their amazingly original Loveless album is now generally regarded as a masterpiece on par with Sgt.

The Creation Records Story: My Magpie Eyes are Hungry for the Prize was origi- nally published to wide critical-acclaim in 2001. View image in fullscreen Every spring Australians are subjected to swooping attacks from magpies, which nonetheless were voted bird of the year in 2017 by Guardian Australia readers. Little did he know that over the course of 20 or so odd years Creation would be a label that spawned a lot of game changers in the indie world.Publication dates are subject to change (although this is an extremely uncommon occurrence overall). David Cavanagh’s 2000 biography ‘The Creation Records Story: My Magpie Eyes Are Hungry For The Prize’ is widely regarded as one of the best music books in existence, telling the inside story of Alan McGee’s famous independent label Creation via interviews with musicians, ex-employees and a fair few detractors! Their 60s and post-punk influences led to some great guitar-based British indie pop, predating the C86 movement by a couple years.

Alan McGee cuts a rather puerile and pathetic figure by comparison, a Thatcherite narcissist driven by resentment and "ambition", like the unlovable Jesus and Mary Chain who he spent much of the early 1980s trying to start his "revolution" with. Even when he gives brief praise to the album upon its release, the author can hardly complete a sentence about it without repeating the band's problems. The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The fact that so many great bands were on one label is remarkable, and this is its story, in exhaustive detail.

Photograph: Supplied by James Glindemann View image in fullscreen James Glindemann, 68, of Sale, recovers after being swooped by a magpie while eating a Chinese takeaway meal in the Victorian town on Tuesday. how Creation Records suddenly pulled-out its funding for their North American tour which the band paid for themselves (albeit in a much smaller/fewer city tour- where they were absolutely amazing in case you missed it) this book was still fascinating esp. What started as a “one-way conversation” with a magpie has ended with a Victorian man airlifted to hospital with serious injuries to both his eyes.