![On first seeing The Jesus And Mary Chain:]()
On first seeing The Jesus And Mary Chain: "I'd never heard a noise that visceral. At the end of the gig they (the band) all attacked the drummer. Started kicking his drums over and kicking him round the stage. I loved it. As soon as they'd finished I ran over and said 'Can I sign you?'"
![On Primal Scream's disastrous early recording sessions in the Welsh countryside:]()
On Primal Scream's disastrous early recording sessions in the Welsh countryside: "Bobby, Jim and Throb barricaded themselves into one of the cottages with mattresses and threatened to pour a bucket of boiling water over anyone who tried to get in. It was all getting a bit medieval now. I'd forgotten to bring any siege enginery so I had little choice but to leave them to it."
![On his first encounter with Shaun Ryder and Factory boss Tony Wilson:]()
On his first encounter with Shaun Ryder and Factory boss Tony Wilson: "I'd already taken a lot of pills that night but I made the mistake of asking Shaun Ryder for another one. He only gave me a half but it was the strongest pill I ever took. That's when Debbie's face became a giant green diamond and I had to wander off...Tony Wilson was there, in a shining white suite, like a God, or a king"
![On being informed of his 'questionable' personal hygiene by House Of Love's Guy Chadwick:]()
On being informed of his 'questionable' personal hygiene by House Of Love's Guy Chadwick: "He phoned me up after I'd got out of a taxi once. 'Alan' he said 'I need to tell you something'. Here we go, I thought, what have I done now? 'You smell'. 'What do you mean?' I said. 'When you got out of the taxi a bad smell left with you'. So I immediately borrowed someone's bath and tried to remember to do that more frequently. "
![On Primal Scream's dark times touring Screamadelica:]()
On Primal Scream's dark times touring Screamadelica: "It was Rolling Stone madness, Cocksucker Blues style... There'd be six of us round the table, smoking cocaine through a pipe made out of a water bottle and tin foil, and by the time two people had had their turn after you, you wanted to kill them because you were so desperate again for a hit."
![On scrapping with former NME and Loaded editor James Brown:]()
On scrapping with former NME and Loaded editor James Brown: "He said something snide to me, so I told him I'd slept with his girlfriend (I had, and, well, what I said was nastier than that). He just lost it. I wasn't scared of him so I just chucked my beer over him and walked off. He came up behind me and got a really good punch in, staggered me. More punches were flying in and I realised I had to fight back. But I wasn't winning. Luckily we got pulled part"
![On meeting Michael Jackson:]()
On meeting Michael Jackson: "Now when I get nervous i get really Scottish, super Scottish. So I just growled at him. 'Aran McGree, Creashan Records'. He just looked at me shaking his head with this look on his face, like I was from outer space. ...He was so, so thin. OxyContined off his fucking tits, I expect, even then. "
![On an awakward meeting with Jimmy Saville at Tony Blair's country home Chequers:]()
On an awakward meeting with Jimmy Saville at Tony Blair's country home Chequers: "He immediately started kissing her (Kate, McGee's partner) all the way up her arms. Kissing her fingers. Kate wasn't too happy about this. I was thinking, what a dirty old man. I had no idea he was a nonce, just a dirty old fucker...When at Chequers it's not the done thing to break Jimmy Savile's nose. The fact that I was in a position ever to consider it was mindlowing enough in itself."
![On Pete Doherty' failed attempts to play the rockstar:]()
On Pete Doherty' failed attempts to play the rockstar: "Pete was smacked off his tits and picked up this crap old TV. He staggered over to the window and hurled it at it, but it hit the wooden frame in the middle, bounced back, hit him in the face and knocked him out cold"
![On an update from Noel Gallagher on Oasis's Dutch tour:]()
On an update from Noel Gallagher on Oasis's Dutch tour: "It was six or seven in the morning. The phone rang almost immediately. It was Noel, to tell me that all of his band mates had been arrested for brawling with Chelsea fans on a ferry to Amsterdam and sent back without playing a note - all of them apart from Noel, who had been in bed"
