My favourite Alan McGee story: it is three days after I’ve handed in my notice at NME and I’m in New York to file one of my last features for them. I’m a bit miserable and angry inside.

But after three hours, drunk and jet-lagged, in the company of the band Therapy? I don’t give a toss. As we tumble out of the bar, deciding where to go next, we bump into McGee with a girl on each arm.

And where is the erstwhile King Of Indie turned international player off to?

“Aye, we’re going to the Madonna party.”

This is the former frontman of Biff Bang Pow. A man whose idea of upmarket was the top floor of the Enterprise pub in Camden Town. On his way….to the Madonna party.

I wrote up our meeting in the subsequent piece about Therapy? With a post-script which read: “He’s come a long way, eh Readers?”

McGee, I was told a few weeks later, cut the paragraph out, enlarged it on the office photocopier, and then stuck it to the wall behind his desk.

Nearly two decades on, I’ve now interviewed Alan five times in the last two years: four of these for the new film UPSIDE DOWN which hits the cinemas later this week.

The 90 minute documentary, directed by my former Radio 1 colleague Danny O’Connor, tells the story of how the label, which began in a north London flat, finally hit pay dirt with Oasis and virtually died overnight at their Knebworth gig.

The most notable aspect of it – apart from some terrific archive material – is how candid everybody is: not least McGee himself, who now seems so at home with his part of the story that he’s ready to debunk his own myths.

Other members of what he describes as “the ultimate fucked up family” were equally open (for trivia fans: I did the Jim Reid and Bobby Gillespie interviews in the same day, sitting at different ends of the 100 Club stage. Gillespie, gently encouraged, ended up talking for 90 minutes. My head was throbbing by the end of it).

You can also just about make out the sound of me falling off my chair laughing as Noel Gallagher tells one of his stories about the Creation office juniors. And just for your information, those shots of McGee on Primrose Hill? Yes it was fucking freezing up there.

PS, screening details have been changing on a daily basis, but at the last count, the film opens around the country on April 29. For a full list of cinemas and venues where it’s showing, head here

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