Review: Upside Down - The Creation Records Story

Those looking for something to relive the Britpop era with will end up disappointed at this look back at the history of Creation Records, as this documentary focuses much more heavily on Gillespie than Gallagher for the most part.

For anyone else Upside Down provides an engaging, if a little one-paced tale of the rise and fall of the infamous independent record label - The film would've benefited from having the likes of Liam alongside brother Noel, as the film tends to drift into becoming a bit one sided and self congratulatory at times - without that bit of conflict that's a staple of all good rockumentaries (see Dig!) , Upside Down lacks that certain something to make it a classic in the genre,

If the talking heads do suffer from being a bit samey with tale after tale of coked up excess, the fact that the film has raconteurs like Alan McGee and Noel Gallagher telling them means its always entertaining and by giving equal focus to the lesser known likes of House of Love, Swervedriver and Sugar there's plenty of interesting tales, alongside some great music to be discovered for those who think the label started and ended with Oasis.

The label's dying days at the start of the noughties may be glossed over too quickly for some, but you can understand them not wanting to talk about the likes of Mishka on camera really.