Fate seems to find a way of landing at the feet of former Creation Records boss Alan McGee. Back in 1993, as everybody knows, he famously signed Oasis at King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut club in Glasgow after the gobby Manchester band barged their way onto the bill. With Forgotten Pharaohs, his first signing to his latest label Creation Youth, it took a flying Croc to grab his attention.
“I was taking part in an egg-and-spoon race for the dads at a school sports day in Hay-on-Wye in South Wales, and Alan McGee happened to be there,” frontman Christian Pattemore recalls of their chance meeting. “As I crossed the finishing line, one of my Crocs came off and landed on his foot, so that kind of forced an introduction. He said he was watching me because of my determination to win, and thought: ‘Okay this kid’s got some fight in him.’”
