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“I didn’t support Oasis’ splitting-up, <\/span><\/b>but Liam and Noel have really bad tempers, it was necessary.” Said Alan McGee, the Gallangher brothers’ talent scout, <\/b>“they had become just a trade-mark, you knew what you could expect from them. Now they have separate projects and we are here to see what is going to happen.”<\/span><\/p>\n Creation Records Manager, Alan McGee<\/b> came to town <\/b>with his “British style” for the meeting organised at Via Como Informagiovani, on Sunday 13th<\/sup> <\/b>March, where he spoke in front of an audience composed of experts and bands to be.<\/span><\/p>\n “I discovered them by chance in a pub in Glasgow.<\/b> That night I had to be elsewhere. My first impression wasn’t positive, they played a Beatles song in a very bad way. It was only later on that they revealed their true potential.” Adds McGee. Wearing a hat and sunglasses, dressed in black and with elegant shoes, McGee talked about his experience in the music world, which began twenty years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n He met Oasis during his career, “they have never been easy to handle. But I have to admit that I have experienced an incredible moment with them. <\/b>They have always reached their goals one after the other in an incredible speed, “ and this is also the case for other successful bands of the “britpop” genre such as Primal Scream.<\/span><\/p>\n A round table in which music in a digital and downloading period <\/b>has been discussed. <\/b>The latter was organised by Ghost Records for the “Notturno Giovani” project, to which Francesco Brezzi, Giuseppe Marmina, Christoph Storbeck ( Strike managing director) and Samantha Colombo participated.<\/span><\/p>\n “It’s not that I want to criticise technology but we have to find an agreement with the music-business” explains Alan McGee. <\/span>“Free downloading is not a positive thing, the artists’ job is not appreciated enough and this gives bands a very low hope <\/span>for survival. When Napster was born the production companies should have collaborated. Today, however, there are true problems: <\/b>where does the copyright end up? How will music be in the future? How can a musician get on if he doesn’t earn money?”.<\/span><\/p>\n The artist, in short, seems to be obliged to live in two different worlds: the creative and the practical ones, where the Internet is becoming a way to present themselves, to advertise their music, to find venues and promoters. “ There is a new trend such as the “netlabel” which are real labels that you can only find online and that can launch successful bands” explained Giuseppe Marmina from Ghost Records. “ The Internet is very useful for your contacts” explained Cristoph Storbeck. The youth have to be more dynamic and have to take initiative.<\/b> They have to stop waiting for others to do everything for them.” In the end, in a world where “ music is freely available” it is important to have clear ideas, to know how to surf between blogs and social networks and to be determined. But there is a piece of advice that the experts never forget: “don’t copy the other bands, have more fantasy, take risks, be borderline but keep you origins” <\/b> <\/span>continues McGee. “I have decided to leave Creation Records when Sony Music was created. The ideas were becoming too bland which created a pauper creativity.”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Sunday 13th March, the band\u2019s founder had a meeting at Informagiovani, during which he told us about the Gallagher brothers and about music during the downloading period. Experts in the field were also present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[988],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n