
Alan McGee
2021There We Were, Now Here We Are... The Making of Oasis
Dick Carruthers
Noel Gallagher, Liam Gallagher
A documentary made for television that looks back on the development and rapid rise of Oasis from being a band practicing nightly in the Boardwalk to one the biggest British bands of the last thirty years. Building from the formation of the band (with Liam apparently just fed up waiting for other bands to release records and decides to do something himself), the film uses contributions from key people really well to tell the story in an engaging way.
There We Were, Now Here We Are... The Making of Oasis
Slowdive: Souvlaki
Michael Garber
Neil Halstead, Rachel Goswell
The film follows the band Slowdive as they come up in the flourishing Thames Valley shoegaze scene and chronicles the making of their classic album Souvlaki. It features interviews with all of the band members as well as Creation Records' Alan McGee, producer Chris Hufford, and engineer Ed Buller.
Slowdive: Souvlaki
Supersonic
Mat Whitecross
Noel Gallagher, Liam Gallagher
Supersonic charts the meteoric rise of Oasis from the council estates of Manchester to some of the biggest concerts of all time in just three short years. This palpable, raw and moving film shines a light on one of the most genre and generation-defining British bands that has ever existed and features candid new interviews with Noel and Liam Gallagher, their mother, and members of the band and road crew.
Supersonic
Teenage Superstars
Grant McPhee
Thurston Moore, Edwyn Collins
Grant McPhee's sequel to Big Gold Dream picks up where the previous film left off, and continues its thrilling tour of the pre-Britpop, Scottish music scene. It features bands, such as The Bluebells, The Pastels, The Soup Dragons and an early incarnation of Teenage Fanclub; plenty of rich archive footage; and fascinating interviews with some of the key people of the time, including Edwyn Collins, Bobby Gillespie, Jim Reid, Sean Dickson, Eugene Kelly and Alan McGee.
Teenage Superstars
Big Gold Dream: Scottish Post-Punk and Infiltrating the Mainstream
Grant McPhee
Norman Blake, Bobby Bluebell
Documentary on the independent Edinburgh record label Fast Product and Postcard Records and associated bands like Fire Engines, Scars and Josef K
Big Gold Dream: Scottish Post-Punk and Infiltrating the Mainstream
Pop Charts Britannia: 60 Years of the Top 10
Benjamin Whalley
Bob Harris, Engelbert Humperdinck
The story of the British pop charts from their beginnings on the 50s through the heyday of the 70s and 80s to their re-emergence in a digital world.
Pop Charts Britannia: 60 Years of the Top 10
Svengali
John Hardwick
Martin Freeman, Michael Socha
Svengali tells the story of Dixie, a postman from South Wales, and a music fanatic. All his life he’s dreamed of discovering a great band and then one day, trawling through YouTube, he finds them… ‘The Premature Congratulations’. He hunts them down and offers them his management services. They are young, arrogant, sexy and utterly magnificent. Putting their demo on a cassette tape, Dixie heads out onto the streets of London…
Svengali
Music for Misfits: The Story of Indie
James Hale
Mark Radcliffe, James Dean Bradfield
A look at the development of British indie music, born in the 1970s when the music industry was controlled by the major record labels and releasing a record independently seemed an impossible dream.
Music for Misfits: The Story of Indie
Blur/Oasis: The Britpop Years
Philip Priestley
Polly Birkbeck, Alan McGee
During the 90s, Britpop dominated the airwaves and an epic pop rivalry sparked into life when Blur’s single ‘Country House’ went up against Oasis’s ‘Roll With It’ in the charts.
Blur/Oasis - The Britpop Years
The Britpop Story 'It Really, Really, Really, Could Happen'
Chloë Thomas
Graham Coxon, Justine Frischmann
In August 1995 Blur and Oasis were engaged in a head-to-head chart battle which divided music fans and led to a wider argument about British pop music. John Harris, journalist and author of The Last Party - the definitive study of the entwinement of music and politics in the 1990s - presents a documentary charting the rise of Britpop, its brief romance with New Labour and the emergence of 'new lad' culture. Finally, as Britpop declines, he asks what legacy it has left. Including contributions from Blur's Graham Coxon, Elastica's Justine Frischmann, Sleeper's Louise Wener, former New Labour insider Darren Kalynuk, and the founder of Creation records, Alan McGee.
The Britpop Story 'It Really, Really, Really, Could Happen'