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Alan McGee Blasts Brit Awards

Proving that the concept of "mellowing with age" is just something that happens to other people, one-time Creation Records boss Alan McGee has lambasted this year's Brits Awards nominations and called for the ceremony to be scrapped.

In a passionate rant, he told the Daily Record, "They should get rid of the Brits and start again with 20 music journalists who actually care about music getting together, instead of a bunch of self-interested record company people who just vote for their own acts."

McGee then blasted Coldplay, a band he once famously described as "bedwetters", after their album 'A Rush of Blood to the Head' was nominated for Best Album of the Last 30 Years, saying, "Coldplay are a dilution of a dilution of a dilution. Chris Martin makes me want to eat someone else's earwax rather than listen to his records."

The former label chief then turned his ire on Sir Paul McCartney by calling on the erstwhile Beatle to retire.

"John Lennon is probably firing bullets from another dimension as we speak. Just give in, Paul. Can't he and people like him retire?" he said.

Warming to the up-against-the-wall theme, McGee then lined up Take That, Mika and JLS in his sights.

"Take That should be shot for even trying a Beatles medley. Mika should have been shot at birth and, while we are at it, we should shoot JLS."

He did, however, prove that his finger was still on the pulse of popular culture by admitting a fondness for Lily Allen and Calvin Harris.

"I really like what Calvin Harris does," he said. "Lily Allen is a good pop star."

The Brit Award nominations for 2011 can be found here.

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Joe Blow

Alan McGee is right about McCartney. I McCartney slips on a bar of soap in the shower, falls, and breaks his neck. Insufferable twat.

March 13 2010 at 12:26 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Liz

What a blowhard. McGee must be desperate for attention and can't get it any other way than by calling on people to be shot. I saw him quoted elsewhere as suggesting that any rock musician over 40 should retire. Guess this idiot means his boy Noel Gallagher, who is 42 or 43, should retire too.

As for Paul, I'd say his worst years, musically were his 30s and 40s. And he's written some gorgeous songs in his 50s and 60s. His Chaos & Creation (2005) CD is lovely. Plus, why should he retire? He played Coachella in 2009 and got rave reviews. McGee may not like him but 120,000 people who came to his 2009 concerts in NYC did, 80,000 people did in Boston, 45,000 people in Washington, etc., etc. The old man still has chops and I hope he plays on.

January 28 2010 at 11:12 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply