Liam Gallagher Mr. Bean Should Play Noel In An Oasis Movie

Liam Gallagher thinks Mr. Bean would be the perfect choice to play his brother Noel in the story of their lives.

When asked by Absolute Radio's Dave Berry who would play them both, Liam said: "Mr. Bean for Noel, because he's annoying, isn't he? You just want to punch his f***ing head in and be like, 'Stop f***ing about mate.'"

For himself, he chose his Rhys Ifans - who appeared as an undertaker in the video for Oasis' 2005 number one 'The Importance of being Idle'.

He said: "I don't wanna go down the sexy hunky route, so none of that Tom Hardy nonsense for me. Rhys Ifans would be good for me. He's a bit out there. Rhys and Mr. Bean. There you go."

On This Day In Oasis History...

"The Importance Of Being Idle" is a song on the British rock band Oasis' sixth album, Don't Believe the Truth, written and sung by lead guitarist Noel Gallagher. It was the second single released from the album in the UK, on August 22, 2005, where it debuted at #1. It was also the first time that Oasis earned two successive #1's in the same calendar year. It was written by Gallagher sometime during the summer of 2004, before the band made their final attempt at recording what would become Don't Believe the Truth. He got the title from the Mark Twain book of the same name which he found whilst cleaning out his garage (it belonged not to him but to girlfriend Sara McDonald.)

Musically, as Noel has commented, the song sounds like tunes from two British bands, The Kinks and The La's. In particular, the sentiment expressed is noticeably similar to The Kinks' "Sunny Afternoon" and "Dead End Street", and the use of falsetto for every other verse line recalls The La's "Feelin'". The guitar sound is similar also to The La's b-sides; "Clean Prophet" and "Over". It also is a breakaway from the sound of Oasis's latter albums, especially the straight ahead rock 'n' roll anthems of Heathen Chemistry. The keyboard used on the pre-chorus sections was bought by bassist Andy Bell from the auction website eBay.

Noel has said that the lyrics of "The Importance of Being Idle" are inspired by his own laziness. Some of the second verse, with the reference to begging his doctor for "one more line", seems to be referring to an actual event as this resembles Noel's account of how he gave up cocaine in 1998.





















Most reviewers acclaimed the track as one of the highlights of Don't Believe the Truth, which itself was widely praised as a marked return to form. The band mentioned in interviews in June that it would become the second single, after the UK Number One "Lyla". The b-sides are Liam Gallagher's "Pass Me Down the Wine" and Gem Archer's "The Quiet Ones."



The promo film was directed by Dawn Shadforth, (whose previous videos include Kylie Minogue's award-winning "Can't Get You Out Of My Head"). Shadforth's film for "The Importance of Being Idle' starred Welsh actor Rhys Ifans and homages the style of early 1960s kitchen sink drama British films, and is set during the build up to a funeral procession in a northern town, with the extravagant undertakers parading the coffin at the video's climax and Ifans playing the part of a high-kicking funeral director. The video is based on the film and play Billy Liar with Ifans playing the role of Billy. Noel and Liam therefore play Shadrack & Duxbury, the owners of the funeral parlour where Billy works. The rest band (Gem,Andy and Zak) make a brief appearance as lazy workers playing cards in an undertaker's office. It was widely acclaimed at the time as being probably the best video Oasis had ever made, not least by the band themselves, who were said to be very happy with the finished product. The video is very similar in style and concept to the music video for "Dead End Street" by The Kinks.

Q Magazine readers placed the song at #1 in a list of 2005's greatest tracks.

The video for the song was voted the video of the year at the NME Awards.

The song is included on Oasis' 'best-of' album Stop the Clocks.

On This Day In Oasis History...

"The Importance Of Being Idle" is a song on the British rock band Oasis' sixth album, Don't Believe the Truth, written and sung by lead guitarist Noel Gallagher. It was the second single released from the album in the UK, on August 22, 2005, where it debuted at #1. It was also the first time that Oasis earned two successive #1's in the same calendar year. It was written by Gallagher sometime during the summer of 2004, before the band made their final attempt at recording what would become Don't Believe the Truth. He got the title from the Mark Twain book of the same name which he found whilst cleaning out his garage (it belonged not to him but to girlfriend Sara McDonald.)

Musically, as Noel has commented, the song sounds like tunes from two British bands, The Kinks and The La's. In particular, the sentiment expressed is noticeably similar to The Kinks' "Sunny Afternoon" and "Dead End Street", and the use of falsetto for every other verse line recalls The La's "Feelin'". The guitar sound is similar also to The La's b-sides; "Clean Prophet" and "Over". It also is a breakaway from the sound of Oasis's latter albums, especially the straight ahead rock 'n' roll anthems of Heathen Chemistry. The keyboard used on the pre-chorus sections was bought by bassist Andy Bell from the auction website eBay.

Noel has said that the lyrics of "The Importance of Being Idle" are inspired by his own laziness. Some of the second verse, with the reference to begging his doctor for "one more line", seems to be referring to an actual event as this resembles Noel's account of how he gave up cocaine in 1998.





















Most reviewers acclaimed the track as one of the highlights of Don't Believe the Truth, which itself was widely praised as a marked return to form. The band mentioned in interviews in June that it would become the second single, after the UK Number One "Lyla". The b-sides are Liam Gallagher's "Pass Me Down the Wine" and Gem Archer's "The Quiet Ones."



The promo film was directed by Dawn Shadforth, (whose previous videos include Kylie Minogue's award-winning "Can't Get You Out Of My Head"). Shadforth's film for "The Importance of Being Idle' starred Welsh actor Rhys Ifans and homages the style of early 1960s kitchen sink drama British films, and is set during the build up to a funeral procession in a northern town, with the extravagant undertakers parading the coffin at the video's climax and Ifans playing the part of a high-kicking funeral director. The video is based on the film and play Billy Liar with Ifans playing the role of Billy. Noel and Liam therefore play Shadrack & Duxbury, the owners of the funeral parlour where Billy works. The rest band (Gem,Andy and Zak) make a brief appearance as lazy workers playing cards in an undertaker's office. It was widely acclaimed at the time as being probably the best video Oasis had ever made, not least by the band themselves, who were said to be very happy with the finished product. The video is very similar in style and concept to the music video for "Dead End Street" by The Kinks.

Q Magazine readers placed the song at #1 in a list of 2005's greatest tracks.

The video for the song was voted the video of the year at the NME Awards.

The song is included on Oasis' 'best-of' album Stop the Clocks.

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Mischa Barton Promises 'Beautiful' Video For Noel Gallagher

Mischa Barton is very proud of the video she shot with Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds in Los Angeles this week.

Mischa Barton says her video with Noel Gallagher is "really beautiful".

The 26-year-old actress was shooting the promo with the former Oasis guitarist in Los Angeles this week and she is very pleased with the final cut.

She wrote on her twitter page: "The video for High Flying Birds is gonna be really beautiful, awesome team!

"It just never gets old working on a project, seeing it splashed about on the internet ahead of time the next day!!! LOVE NOEL (sic)."

Mischa is such a fan of Noel's former band Oasis - which he was in with his brother Liam Gallagher - and his new High Flying Birds project, that she didn't even mind running around Los Angeles in leopard-print underwear.

In other tweets she wrote: "Doing Noel Gallagher's video today. Was so excited I barely slept and he didn't dissapoint! How come when you're running around in your underwear it's cold?! (sic)"

The former 'O.C.' star was joined on set by an actor in similar underwear. It is not yet known which song the video will accompany.

Noel, 44, has worked with famous faces before on his videos.

Russell Brand - who acted as best man at the rocker's wedding to Sara MacDonald - starred in the promo for solo track 'AKA... What a Life!', while Rhys Ifans appeared in the short film for Oasis song 'The Importance of Being Idle'.

Source: www.femalefirst.co.uk

More On Rhys Ifans For Creation Records Film Role

The man credited with discovering Oasis has revealed he wants Rhys Ifans to play him in a movie about the story of Creation Records.

It’s an apt choice for Creation Records supremo Alan McGee, who has settled in Hay-On-Wye. Not only is the Welsh Notting Hill star a friend, but he once fronted an incarnation of Super Furry Animals before they signed to McGee’s seminal label.

And in the video for the Oasis hit The Importance of Being Idle, Ifans played the part of a high-kicking funeral director.

Opening up on possible movie projects in the pipeline, McGee told Wales on Sunday: “There are two ideas – a druggie one and one that’s more serious. Me, Tim Abbot of Creation Records and Rhys would all love to be in a movie about Creation.

“Creation is something that I’ve had nothing but success with, so I know a movie about it would work. Rhys spends most of the time in Spain now [where he has a farm in Majorca]. He is a genius and he is my friend and I would love him to play me in the Creation story which would cover all the emotions.”

He added: “We would all like to work together to cultivate the idea and my character but I’m not going to reveal too much about it just yet.

“The other movie idea would combine Creation and me as a maverick music guy with the stories of Malcolm McLaren (late Sex Pistols manager) and Tony Wilson (the Factory Records and Happy Mondays manager).”

McGee famously co-founded the Creation Records label in 1983, which was home to such ’80s and ’90s luminaries as The Jesus and Mary Chain, Primal Scream, Teenage Fanclub, Super Furry Animals, My Bloody Valentine, The House of Love and – most famously – Oasis.

McGee is already the main subject of Upside Down:The Creation Records Story, a new documentary expected to be available as a DVD and to be broadcast on TV screens from April. The film, named after the Mary Chain’s 1984 debut single, features interviews with JAMC’s Jim Reid, Bobbie Gillespie of Primal Scream and Oasis’s Noel Gallagher.

McGee said: “Danny O’Conner who directs Upside Down is a genius and he managed to get just about everybody involved in it to take part. But Liam Gallagher didn’t go in it because Danny was scared that if they both appeared it would turn into the Oasis Show, and Noel thought that too.”

Meanwhile, McGee said he was getting used to the peace of the Mid Wales countryside – as well as its flip side.

“I moved to Wales for the quiet life and I should be getting a bus pass!

“But I love it here even more than Scotland; the people here are the sweetest I’ve ever met. As a result of Upside Down I’m going to be attending about every film festival going this year.

“But I like nothing better than DJ-ing at a pub in Mountain Ash, with 300 people singing songs by Oasis and the Beatles’ All You Need Is Love for hours on end.”

Source: www.walesonline.co.uk

Rhys Ifans Lined Up For New Biopic Of Oasis Svengali Alan McGee

Former Oasis manager and Creation records boss Alan McGee is in talks about a movie based on his life - with Rhys Ifans playing the lead role.

And Glasgow-born McGee, who also brought us The Jesus And Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine and Primal Scream, is so keen to get the project off the ground that he gave up the chance to tour with his proteges and pals Glasvegas.

McGee is already the star of documentary film Upside Down: the Creation Records Story, which will have its Scots premiere on February 22.

He's now revealed to the Razz that he has other bigscreen projects in the pipeline.

McGee, 50, explained: "James from Glasvegas wanted me to come out on tour this week but I've got to go to London for a big film meeting.

"It's a really weird time as people seems to have come out of a depression and the big film guy I'm meeting is a good guy.

"He's good for a laugh and is interested in talking to me about making a feature film about Creation.

"It's a film about some lunatic who runs a label that ends up making millions of pounds.

"Actually there are two movie ideas - a druggie one and one that's more serious. Maybe we can make one that combines both."

Alan, who said he would love to get Mr Nice star Ifans to play him, was in Scotland yesterday to film a cameo role in a new music video for the Scots band Cousti.

In the video for their country rock song Sweetest Tunes, he can be seen playing the mandolin, a la John Peel in Rod Stewart's classic Maggie May.

Alan said: "It was fun - the weirdest thing was I realised I've made about 300 videos in my life and I don't think I've ever been in one playing an instrument before."

Alan, who these days spends most of his time with his family in Wales, also missed out on catching up with Liam Gallagher when he visited his Glasgow clothes shop, Pretty Green, last week.

After Liam claimed McGee was wrong to believe Oasis would re-form, he said: "Maybe I am wrong.

"From a fan point of view, I'd love to see them back."

He added: "Liam also said that Noel was making music for 50-year-olds but I don't have a problem with t hat as I am 50. "Noel is making for 21-year-olds and 70-year-olds too."

Source: www.dailyrecord.co.uk

Rhys Ifans Foot Break Takes The Peth

Bungling Rhys Ifans has broken his foot just four days before his band open for Oasis at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium.

The Notting Hill actor is hobbling around on crutches after crocking himself in a footie kickabout with a gang of kids outside his rock group The Peth’s Cardiff studio.

Rhys, who fronts the band, will still play Friday’s gig but with his left foot in a huge RoboCop-style plastic boot brace.

He said: “It was a very un-rock ’n’ roll accident — I was playing football with kids and didn’t even have the ball. I broke a little but very important bone.”

He now has the same brace David Beckham wore after he broke his foot before the 2002 World Cup.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

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