 "It's kinda weird talking about it,
really. We were only on Creation for one single in 1984.
If Creation had been what it is now at the time we would
never have left It was Alan and about £500 in the bank
and that was it. We had grand ideas of doing
'Psychocandy' for about £ 15,000, which we thought was
an expensive record for a bunch of guys on the dole and
Alan not much better off. We couldn't have made that
record if we hadn't got away from Creation and signed to
a major record label. Looking back I kinda regret not
being able to knock it out somehow..."There was talk of you re-signing to Creation... "Yes, we talked about
it for a time, and it almost happened, but "McGee has a limitless enthusiasm, which is his strength I think that when you're in the music business for a certainamount of time you get the shit kicked out of you, if you're ina band it's easy - you can go away for a while and rest -whereas with McGee it's constant he's always doingsomething and for that I've gotta hand it to him, I couldn't do what he does and that's a fact. "It's true he's not a brilliant manager, that's what we foundout, I don't think Alan would disagree with that either." Was there much bad feeling after you sacked him?
"It's true Creation
could've gone down a couple of times Links
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one way or another it got kinda
complicated It was definitely a possibility at one point
"Yes,
there was, I'd be lying if I said there wasn't. We kinda
thought he was prepared for us telling him that we
because he does believe in his bands to the
point where he'll risk the company to see that the record
gets made the way the band wants. Sometimes I think
that's a fault. I mean, bands should have control but
they should never pull down a company. If we were still
on Creation I wouldn't expect them to ever risk going
down the pan just because we had I over-indulged in a
record."
