Jason Schwartzman recalls “spooky” Noel Gallagher encounter

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Oasis’ Noel Gallagher.The Rushmore actor recalled the surprise encounter he had with Gallagher in a new interview with The Guardian and described as “the spookiest thing that’s happened” to him.He explained that he was in a cab in the early ’00s talking to a driver about Britpop before the encounter happened.He recalled: “I was in England in 2004, 2005, in this cab, asking all these Britpop questions to the driver…I’m such a Britpop geek; I love it.”He remembered the cab driver saying to him: “‘’You know that was the ’90s.

It’s not really like that any more.’ “I said: ‘I guess I’m sort of living in the past.’ He said: ‘It’s not like you’re going to see Noel Gallagher getting into the back of a car with a guitar.'”Next, moments later, that’s exactly what happened to Schwartzman.

He continued: “As I got out in that street with all the guitar shops [Denmark Street], Noel Gallagher was across the street with a guitar case in his hand, getting into the back of the car,” Schwartzman explained. “I felt like I was in a scene from a movie.”Schwartzman revealed that he was a huge Britpop fan as a teenager and in the same interview, he also discussed his love for recent Oasis documentary, Supersonic.“I saw them live a few times,” he said of Oasis. “The first was at the KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas festival in 1995 when Oasis were touring Morning Glory on the same bill as Radiohead doing ‘The Bends’.