I certainly wasn’t prepared for the intense outpouring – the sense of what it meant for people.” (Noel Gallagher)
2025 was a different country compared to the 1990s, and however much life is better now in the 21st century we still need nostalgia.
Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger – directed by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace – adds an additional spotlight to the 2025 reunion concerts, and is released in cinemas and IMAX next month. Or if you’re off to the 83rd Venice International Film Festival catch its world premiere there in early September.
Here’s the synopsis:
“Oasis: Don’t Look Back In Anger” charts Liam and Noel Gallagher’s triumphant reunion tour, Oasis Live ‘25, one of the most anticipated rock ‘n’ roll comebacks of our time. The film is an unapologetically uplifting account of the biggest musical event of 2025, capturing the experience and emotions of the band and their fans across the world. The unique perspective includes rehearsal, backstage, and onstage access as well as the first joint interviews with Noel and Liam in over 20 years. Alongside the band’s sold-out world tour, the film also explores the profound emotional impact of this phenomenal global cultural moment and what their music means to audiences and generations worldwide.
The Disney+ / Oasis documentary is released on 11 September 2026, in cinemas and IMAX.
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It’s five years since the brilliant documentary Oasis Knebworth 1996 came out. It took we Gen Xers straight back to those sepia-beer tinged days, trundling up and down the country on coaches, heading home in the early hours sunburnt and hoarse-voiced from singing ‘n’ smoking.
Nostalgia takes us to places we never originally visited but that summer never seemed to end and even the politics seemed to be going our way. It may not seem like yesterday but it doesn’t feel like 30 years ago.
Like millions of others, last year a friend and I hung on the Ticketmaster app for hours for Oasis Live ’25 tickets, followed by days scouring emails for codes to unlock later releases. I wasn’t successful but we had a pact, and when she managed to get restricted view seats for Wembley Stadium she took me along. The seats actually had great views – perhaps generously allocated by a shadowy figure at the venue, or maybe I just have double-jointed eyes – and for a mere £70 each. (I won’t try to remember what I paid for Maine Road in ’95.)
Tokyo (credit: Simon Emmett)
The gig was amazing, and suddenly a load of 50-somethings were 25 again. (The train journey home was less exhausting than ’96 and far better managed, fuelled by Waitrose-retailed protein bars, but hey I am 55 now.)
And now I can relive the experience from the comfort of those massive, squishy adjustable cinema seats, though I will do my best not to let out an involuntary “ahhhhh, ooohhhh” when I have to climb out at the end.
Wembley Stadium, night 4