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Ruby’s ‘Tiny Meat’ turns 20

Released on February 12th 1996, ‘Tiny Meat’ was the second single taken Ruby’s debut album ‘Salt Peter’ the latest project of Silverfish frontwoman Lesley Rankin.

Primal Scream unveil new single ‘Where The Light Gets In’ – watch

Primal Scream have unveiled their new single this morning called ‘Where The Light Gets In’. The tune has joint vocals by Bobby Gillespie and Sky Ferreira and is the first track from new album ‘Chaosmosis‘ which is due next month. Listen below via Spotify, the Read more

“Not really my cup of tea” David Bowie

Everyone loved David Bowie so therefore its no surprise there’s been so many stories about him emerging in the last couple of weeks, but this one really caught my eye.

Creation Records - Doing It For The Kids

Still Doing It For The Kids – A round-up of 2015

2015 was a crazy year when you consider it is 15 years since Creation closed its doors, this year was one of the busiest for some time with huge tours from the likes of Ride, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Super Furry Animals and Primal Read more

Still In A Dream – A Story Of Shoegaze boxset to be released

For many Creation is the label that defined the shoegazing sound. From the Mary Chain through to Ride and Slowdive via My Bloody Valentine and The House of Love, Creation released the records that are always top of any shoegazing lists. There can’t be any Read more

Creation bands back in the charts again

With all the new activity from many of the bands recently, it is good to see this is slowly creeping back into the national charts.

Ride begin tour with hometown gig – watch

Ride played the first gig as a full band in 20 years tonight (5th April) at the O2 Academy (formerly The Zodiac) to an ecstatic crowd in Oxford.

It was most played song on radio in 1995

We seem to be having a lot of anniversaries lately, today marks two decades since the release of one of Creation’s most successful singles. It was the most played track on UK radio in 1995, a song that was so overplayed even the band grew Read more

CRE020 Meat Whiplash – Don’t Slip Up

With many of the old Creation bands back together again, I felt I should start a series of posts focusing on some of the other acts from the label, bands who may not be referenced as influences today but still helped to shape Creation Records.