Creation Stories ★★★ Dir: Nick Moran SKY CINEMA. ST

How a “wee ginger tool from Glasgow” became the “president of pop” – and lived.

“Most of this happened,” the title credits state optimistically over Primal Scream’s Rocks. Disclaimer duly filed at the start, Nick Moran pitches his Irvine Welsh/Dean Cavanaghscripted take on Alan McGee’s 2013 memoir as a crime caper narrated by the main protagonist: how a drug-addicted chancer blagged his way past the UK music biz gatekeepers and got away with millions before the dream soured over dinner with Tony Blair and Jimmy Savile. Cribbing the Trainspotting guide to pillzapoppin’ hedonistic fantasy ensures no time to dwell on some wonky chronology, and actually provides Creation Stories with its consistent saving grace in Ewen Bremner, whose portrayal of McGee, wired or humbled, stands out from the breathless caricaturisation. Amid many well-kent faces – notably Richard Jobson as McGee’s violent dad – the impressive Ciaran Lawless as young Bobby Gillespie begs a film of the G-man’s forthcoming book Tenement Kid. Keith Cameron