Exclusive: Primal Scream Recall Their Early Days
Tonight's Independents Day documentary on Xfm is all about Creation Records and Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie tells us how tough it was back in the early days.
As part of our July 4 Independents Day celebrations Xfm have been focussing on a different indie label every night this week.
Its the final installment tonight with a closer look at Creation Records, home to Oasis and Primal Scream amongst others.
Speaking exclusively to Xfm, Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie revealed how tough things were when they first started out:
"I went to the same school as [label founder] Alan McGee and he was in the year above me. When Creation started it was such a tini tini label, before Jesus and Mary Chain. It was in his spare room, winter, basically slave labour."
Meanwhile McGee himself told us he had little time for labels these days:
"I'd recommend a band not to go to any record label, I think they're all f**king rubbish, you're better off doing it yourself. They're living in the past, it's like owning a tram company of something."
You can hear more from that interview with Primal Scream, Tim Burgess, Alan McGee and more on tonight's Xfm's Rough Trade documentary which will be played out during the first hour of X-posure (10-11pm).
Click here now to listen again to this week's Mute, Domino, and Rough Trade mini-docs which include never heard before interviews with Arctic Monkeys, Primal Scream, The Strokes, Franz Ferdinand and more.
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