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Creation Myth

The maverick record label that gave the world My Bloody Valentine, Primal Scream and Oasis is the subject of a eye-popping new documentary, which receives its Irish premiere as part of the Jameson Dublin Irish Film Festival. Danny O’Connor talks about getting inside the Creation story.

Roe McDermott, 28 Jan 2011

This February marks the return of the highly acclaimed Jameson Dublin International Film Festival, an eleven day event showcasing the best of Irish and international cinema. With this year’s line-up including Antonia Capuano’s challenging Dark Love, a film about both a victim and perpetrator attempting to deal with the consequences of rape; Yony Leyseyer’s intriguing documentary of the bedevilling libertine beat poet William S. Burroughs, and Irish writer and director Oonagh Kearney’s latest feature The Christening, JDIFF’s programme of 130 films has something to satisfy every movie lover’s taste. And if this taste happens to be slightly off the beaten track, Jameson’s Cult Film Club is ready to keep you obsessives happy. Held in locations relevant to the movies, the Cult Film screening uses live theatre, props and staging to help create an electric atmosphere. This year’s chosen cult classic is everyone’s favourite mind-boggler The Usual Suspects, and don’t be scared, but Keyser Söze himself will even be in attendance. (You’ll be safe – just don’t tell him he talks too much.)

Among the documentaries chosen for the festival is Upside Down, Danny O’Connor’s revealing examination of Creation Records. Headed by the infamous Alan McGee, Creation was one of the most influential record companies of the ‘80s and ‘90s, signing such acts as Oasis, Super Furry Animals, My Bloody Valentine, Ride, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Primal Scream and many more. But despite the big rock ‘n roll hitters involved, director Danny O’Connor insists that Upside Down is not just a film about music, but the characters behind it.

“You’ve got the story of Alan McGee and Bobby Gillespie, who went to school together, one becomes this Mr. Label Svengali Guru character, and the other becomes this pretty significant rock star, and yet they were both completely interdependent,” O’Connor explains. “So the film starts and ends with them, and really it’s a story about friendship, about them falling in and falling out and their relationship.”



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