HE HAD TO BECOME RANGERS FAN FOR ALAN McGEE BIOPIC
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Welsh created a hilarious scene for the film m T2 Trainspotting, in which Ewan McGregor’s s Renton and Johnny Lee Miller’s Sick Boy steal l credit cards in a staunch Protestant pub. They’re forced to ad lib a song called d No More Catholics before emptying the card d owners’ bank accounts by guessing most t of their pin codes are 1690. In upcoming biopic Creation n Stories, Jobson takes on n the role of former r Creation Records boss Alan’s McGee’s father.
Jobson, who found fame in Dunfermline punk band Skids in 1977 with hits such as Into the Valley and The Saints Are Coming, said: “Creation Stories is obviously a sex and drugs and rock ’n’ roll story.
“When Alan discovered punk rock, his father John McGee was a very straight, stern Presbyterian Scot and thought it was the work of Satan.
“His and Alan’s relationship was quite brutal and the beauty of the script is they’ve managed to find humour in John’s behaviour.
“There’s a great scene where Alan comes home as a 16-year old kid and his Sex Pistols T-shirt is all ripped with safety pins in it.
“John is on his way out and has all his Freemason gear on and all that stuff.
“He tells Alan, ‘Get that s*** off and get in here now. You’ve brought shame on this house. Do you realise you look ridiculous?’ He asks that in his full Masonic gear. “It’s a very Scottish thing to laugh at these thingsg and Irvine has managedg to find humour in moments whereyouwhereyou might not expect humour to exist.” Jobson, 58, admits he was keen to take on the role – partly because he’s a Celtic fan. He said: “I landed the part because they were looking for a guy who could play both the young John McGee and the old one. “They had tried quite a few very well-known actors who didn’t work as the younger John McGee so they had me in for a reading. “I had to put on my teddy boy wig for the early John McGee and an old man wig for the contemporary John. It was nerve-racking. “The hardest part was that John is a diehard Rangers fan and I’m not a RangeRangers fan. “That was something I had tto overcome because Alan’s father was a FreeFreemason and I come from the other side of that cultural,cu weird divide in Scotland. So that was a bit odd.” The Kirkcaldy-born singer added:a “There are moments when it is very confrontational. con John was quite a presenpresence and very threatening to Alan. HisHi malevolent seething is because he doesn’t understand what’s goinggo on. “He did what his fafather did and he wants his soson to do the same – get a trade,tr join the Freemasons Freemasonsa and go and see Rangers at tthe weekend. “Alan’s nnot interested in any of that. He wants to get down
“Music saved young working-class people in Scotland from all the crazy stuff.
“The Skids were a mixture of Catholics and Protestants. It didn’t matter to us.
“We didn’t care and Alan was the same. He came out of that and found music. Music crosses all divides and is a magical healing thing. It is very transformative.
“Alan thought he needed drugs for that transformation and realised in the end that he didn’t need those things because he had a big heart and a soul and great taste in music.”
Creation Stories also follows McGee leaving his home in Glasgow and going to London.
The biggest transformation in his life comes when he signs Oasis, after discovering them at Glasgow’s King Tut’s in 1993.
As the Britpop music scene explodes in the mid-90s, McGee finds himself hanging out with drug-fuelled celebrities as well as politicians such as Tony Blair.
Jobson, who lives in Bedfordshire, added: “John McGee has since mellowed. There is
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