{"id":269927,"date":"2025-07-17T17:55:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T17:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/269927\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T17:55:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T17:55:13","slug":"that-scandalous-oasis-documentary-you-read-about-doesnt-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/269927\/","title":{"rendered":"That Scandalous Oasis Documentary You Read About Doesn’t Exist"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tReaders of the British tabloids may have read recently about a sensationalistic documentary on Oasis<\/a> that was supposedly flagged by a British film board for its \u201cstrong language\u201d and footage of the band drinking and smoking. Piqued by the news, plenty of Oasis fans probably can\u2019t wait to see it, especially in light of their well-greeted reunion shows<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe only problem is that no such documentary exists.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs the marketing director of Creation Records in the U.K. in the Nineties, Tim Abbot was a key part of the Oasis team during the band\u2019s heady early years. In 1997, he published Oasis Definitely, a photo-heavy book on the band and its rise to fame. In light of the Gallagher brothers\u2019 return, Abbot decided to republish and expand the original book with additional images. To promote it, he launched The Lost Tapes Tour, a series of events in the U.K. where he talks about the band and the book and shows photos, posters, and artwork of Oasis. He also includes a portion of the footage he shot of the band in the studio, on tour buses, and in hotel pools, some of which made its way into a documentary called Oasis: Supersonic in 2016.<\/p>\n

\n\tWorried about the future of movie theaters in his home country, Abbot opted to hold many of these events in the Cineworld chain of movie houses. \u201cCineworld is empty during the week because only Marvel blockbusters keep cinemas going on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday,\u201d he says. \u201cSo if we let them go, it\u2019s just another part of the old cultural world passing into data.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThat\u2019s where things got a bit complicated. Even though the footage seen during the book talks isn\u2019t a stand-alone documentary in any way, the book tour was taking place largely in movie theaters. As a result, the clips had to be submitted to the British Board of Film Classification, a U.K. non-profit that, according to a spokesperson, \u201cworks to empower audiences to make informed viewing decisions\u201d by way of \u201cour age ratings and content advice.\u201d After watching the 70 minutes of vintage Oasis footage that are part of Abbot\u2019s presentation, the BBFC slapped it all with a 15 rating (appropriate for viewers that age and up) and cited its language and references to \u201cdrugs and alcohol\u201d and \u201csmoking.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tWhen he heard the news, Abbot was amused. \u201cI don\u2019t mind the 15 rating,\u201d he says. \u201cI think it\u2019s hilarious. I would expect it an 18, to be honest. \u2018Shock, horror! Rock band drinks beer and smokes cigarettes in the Nineties!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe only issue is that the British press reports on the ratings led people to believe that the so-called Oasisdefinitely (as it was listed on the BBFC site) is an actual feature-length documentary, rather than bits of footage shown during a talk. \u201cIt\u2019s a question-and-answer forum in an interactive talk lasting approximately two hours, with 70 minutes of that being photo images and moving images to play in a cinema,\u201d says Abbot. \u201cIt\u2019s not a tell-all, opportunistic documentary. It\u2019s not a documentary whatsoever, in any shape or form. It\u2019s a respectful, delivered piece about my life around that band. It\u2019s about the process of making music in Rockfield [a studio in Wales], being on the road, being young and approaching stardom, nervous exhaustion, and working on \u2018Champagne Supernova.\u2019<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAt some point, Abbot is hoping to bring the 10-date book tour to the U.S. to coincide with Oasis\u2019 fall American shows<\/a>, although those plans are still in the works. But first he has to make sure people know what they\u2019ve signed up for as opposed to what they\u2019ve read about. \u201cGod, people are worried about this, but there\u2019s a third world war looming,\u201d he says. \u201c\u2019Oasis documentary, which never existed, about smoking cigarettes and drinking beer!\u2019 Has the world gone mad?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Readers of the British tabloids may have read recently about a sensationalistic documentary on Oasis that was supposedly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[77,3943,25181,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-269927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-oasis","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114869864043992112","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}