TUNING IN TO RADIO 4 AN ECLECTIC LONDON CLUB FAVORITE READY TO HIT L.A. THIS WEEKEND.Byline: Fred Shuster Music Writer The record mogul who discovered Oasis and pocketed millions is coming to town to spin a few favorite records. Alan McGee Alan McGee is a British music industry mogul and musician famed for founding the independent Creation Records label which ran from 1983 to 2000. Career Early years , who also discovered and signed such indie icons as the Jesus and Mary Chain, Primal Scream  The of this article or section may be compromised by "weasel words".You can help Wikipedia by removing weasel words. , Ride, My Bloody Valentine and the Boo Radleys to his Creation Records imprint, will launch his Radio 4 club Saturday at the Knitting Factory The Knitting Factory is a New York City and Hollywood music club, originally specializing in jazz and experimental music. It was opened in 1987 by Michael Dorf and Bob Appel, both from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Hollywood. The sometime event, based on a monthly London club An informal group of private creditors on the international stage. Similar to the Paris Club of public lenders. London Club is not the only informal group of private creditors. Its first meeting took place in 1976 in response to Zaire's payment problems. of the same name, will attempt to answer the musical question, ``Why can't Atari Teenage Riot Atari Teenage Riot (abbreviated ATR) was a German Digital hardcore group formed in Berlin in 1992. Highly political, they fused anarchist anti-fascist or anti-Nazi views with punk vocals and the newly emerging techno sound that was called digital hardcore, which is a term and Nick Drake co-exist on the musical landscape?'' McGee, who dissolved Creation last year after its deal with Sony Music ended, plans to open Radio 4 clubs in Japan, Australia and Sweden to compliment branches in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Canada and Hollywood. ``Who said you can't mix the Wu-Tang Clan into Joan Jett Joan Jett (born Joan Marie Larkin on September 22, 1958) is an American rock guitarist, singer, producer and actress. She is best known for her hit single "I Love Rock N' Roll", which was #1 on the Billboard charts from March 20 to May 8, 1982, as well as for her ?'' said McGee, 40, who plans to spin records at the clubs, which will also feature guest DJs and bands. ``Radio 4 is an antidote to formatting. More often than not, our DJs have no idea what they're going to play.'' Local rockers Beachwood Sparks will appear at Saturday's inaugural event, which will be followed by a sporadic schedule through the end of the year. ``I see it as an injection of something we desperately need in L.A.,'' said Radio 4 promoter Liz Randall, a longtime friend of McGee. ``This brings London to the U.S. And it'll be for everybody. You won't have to be embarrassed if an AC/DC AC/DC adj. Slang Having a bisexual orientation. [From the likening of a bisexual person to an appliance that works on either alternating or direct current. record comes on. We all know we love AC/DC, but some people are too cool to admit it.'' Randall likens Radio 4's atmosphere to that of the late, lamented Jabberjaw, the Pico Boulevard indie-rock nightspot she helped run until it closed in 1996. ``I never knew what was playing before I'd show up,'' she recalled. ``I just knew I'd have fun there.'' Since dissolving Creation, McGee started Poptones, an Internet-based label (www.poptones.com) that has so far signed the Montgolfier Brothers, Outrageous Cherry, Arnold, El Vez, Mission Control and Selofane Seventy Four. Poptones began with a high media profile when McGee floated the venture on the London Stock Exchange London Stock Exchange London marketplace for securities. It was formed in 1773 by a group of stockbrokers who had been doing business informally in local coffeehouses. last summer while promising to undercut the record industry by selling CDs around $5 cheaper than normal U.K. retail prices. ``Successful labels are not created overnight,'' he said. ``But the Poptones brand has achieved a huge profile in a short time. I believe we're signing some of the most exciting young bands on the scene.'' Beginning as the Scottish punk-rocker's self-funded labor of love in a London bedsit bedsit or bedsitter Noun a furnished sitting room with a bed Noun 1. bedsit - a furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodations (and some plumbing) bedsitter, bedsitting room in the summer of 1983, Creation built a reputation as one of the most consistent indie labels in Britain during the '80s. The label introduced the dance genre known as acid house in the early '90s and signed Oasis just as Britpop began to emerge. But by the end of the '90s, after selling 35 million Oasis albums worldwide, McGee's empire was crumbling in the face of diminishing financial returns and his own cocaine addiction. The behind-the-scenes story is documented in ``Alan McGee and the Story of Creation Records'' (subtitled ``This Ecstasy Romance Cannot Last''), a just-published biography and epitaph epitaph, strictly, an inscription on a tomb; by extension, a statement, usually in verse, commemorating the dead. The earliest such inscriptions are those found on Egyptian sarcophagi. written by sometime Oasis biographer Paolo Hewitt, available from Amazon.com. Over the past several years, Oasis - appearing May 14 at the Greek Theatre with the Black Crowes - has seen its popularity and sales dwindle dwin·dle v. dwin·dled, dwin·dling, dwin·dles v.intr. To become gradually less until little remains. v.tr. To cause to dwindle. See Synonyms at decrease. while other British bands have come along to steal the group's thunder. McGee says that's to be expected in the fickle world of pop. ``Oasis took over the world, didn't they?'' he said. ``They did it all.'' So, don't expect to hear Liam Gallagher crooning ``Wonderwall'' at Radio 4, which McGee says will avoid the obvious (AC/DC excepted). ``I'm sick of clubs that have these 'indie nights,' ... weak draft lager and reference points that stretch all the way back as far as, oh, 'Girls and Boys' by Blur,'' he says. ``That's all well and good for some ... but it's just not good enough for us. Radio 4 came about because we're sick of not having anywhere to go to hear the kind of music we like played really loud.'' RADIO 4 Where: Knitting Factory Hollywood, 7021 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood. When: 7 p.m. Saturday and sporadically through the end of the year. Tickets: $12. Information: (323) 463-0204. On the Web: www.poptones.co.uk/radio4.html. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: 'Radio 4 is an antidote to formatting. More often than not, our DJs have no idea what they're going to play.' - Alan McGee |
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