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Paul Oldfield, born in Macclesfield, Cheshire, North West England, is better known by his stage name Mr. Methane. He is a British farter or "professional farter" who started performing in 1991;〔Pile, Stephen, "Ride The Wild Wind". ''Sunday Telegraph'' (London), Review Section p. 7 (27 June 1993)}〕 he briefly retired in 2006 but restarted in mid-2007; he claims to be the only performing farter in the world.〔 〕 He worked on railroads before focusing on his flatulence performances. ==Background== According to ''When Will I Be Famous?'' (2003), a BBC book on British variety acts, Oldfield discovered his ability at the age of fifteen when practising yoga. The next day he performed twenty rapid-fire rasping farts in under a minute for a group of his friends. It became so popular he made it into a regular event. In the late 1980s, Oldfield turned professional, performing as an opening act for the Macclesfield-based bands The Screaming Beavers and The Macc Lads. The latter wrote a song about him on their album ''The Beer Necessities''. Oldfield subsequently travelled to New York City in the United States, where he appeared as a guest on the ''Howard Stern Show'' as the "British Blaster". While in New York, Mr. Methane also performed a series of farts on Broadway. In his autobiography, English comic Frank Skinner talks about the time that Phil Spector, while receiving a lifetime music award, went into a rant live on Australian TV about a duet of Da Do Ron Ron that Skinner had sung with Mr. Methane on his BBC1 Chat Show. Spector said that Methane and Skinner had taken his work of art and desecrated it.〔''Frank Skinner'' by Frank Skinner (October 2001). Century. ISBN 0-7126-7927-8 / ISBN 978-0-7126-7927-5. Page 312.〕 In the 1990s Mr Methane produced a parody of the Phil Collins Song "In The Air Tonight" titled "Curry In the Air Tonight." Tony Smith, the and business manager to Phil Collins, refused to let Mr Methane release his parody version, stating that, "This is a very serious song and we cannot see any reason for it to be taken so lightly." Letters between the two parties were reproduced on The Smoking Gun Website.〔http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/celebrity/mr-methane-deflated〕 In July 2004 Q magazine voted Mr. Methane's album ''mr methane.com'' the second most bizarre album ever released in a Q special edition titled "The 150 Greatest Rock Lists Ever". In 2009 Oldfield auditioned for ''Britain's Got Talent'', where he announced his intention to "put the art into fart",〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Auditions 5: Mr Methane )〕 but failed to make it through to the live finals, after being "buzzed" out by all three judges — despite two of them, Piers Morgan and Amanda Holden, laughing uncontrollably — and received negative reaction from some of the audience — other audience members are visibly seen to be in hysterics — in less than two minutes during his flatulist performance of the ''Blue Danube'' waltz, with Simon Cowell calling him "a disgusting creature". That same year, Mr. Methane also auditioned for ''Das Supertalent'' in Germany, but was eliminated in the semi-finals. July 2014 saw Mr Methane release a Fart App for Android devices. The app had originally been developed in 2010, for the iPhone, but was rejected by Apple. Two versions are now available on Google Play, the "(full )" version, and a feature-limited "(free )" version. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mr. Methane」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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