Liam Singing Step Out

"So Mat Whitecross was on the Oasis Podcast recently (https://audioboom.com/posts/7174160-supersonic-director-mat-whitecross) and he finally addressed why Alan and Guigsy were edited out of Supersonic, at least in more detail than previously in other interviews. Basically, they didn't ever get permission and therefore had to remove Alan and Guigsy, especially due to different laws in different regions regarding usage. He states that Guigsy did not give permission because he still is mad at Ignition for some reason (a little bit earlier in the podcast he talks about this). Mat also states that Guigsy is thinking about writing a book, which would be awesome to get another point of view from the inside.

"Guigs was really important to me, obviously. Because it was his band, it was his idea to start a band – he’s very funny about that, and Bonehead’s very funny about that. This was another sequence we did have in the film very briefly, but we didn’t have any footage to try and relate that part of the story.

Guigs was suffering from some kind of injuries (he’d always seen himself as some kind of sportsman, as I’m sure a lot of fans know) and he was in the pub one night, commiserating with someone over a beer. And he saw this nutter trying to order beers in German, while doing Nazi salutes at the barmaid; he was like, “This guy’s interesting” and [his friend] said “Oh that’s Bonehead. He’s just this amazing musician – he can get a musical note out of anything; give him a radiator and he’ll play you a symphony.” So they collared him and Guigs had this moment, like, “I wanna be in a band – I want you to be in my band.” And Bonehead said: “Great! What can you play?” Guigs was like: “Nothing. You’re gonna teach me!” Haha. All this kind of stuff. There were some really lovely things that he told me but it just… I thought we got pretty close, but in the end he said he didn’t really want to be part of it. Which is fair enough."