By Roxanne "Flashbulb" Starr
Seventeen years after Noel and Liam Gallagher split acrimoniously in 2009, Oasis got back on a stage together — and this week, the rest of us get to see what that actually looked like behind the scenes.
"Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger" hits cinemas worldwide this week, a two-hour concert film built from footage shot throughout the band's sold-out Live '25 Tour. Directors Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern, working alongside Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, were embedded with the band for the whole run — from a tense first rehearsal with Liam to what The Guardian describes as glimpses of Noel being, in their words, "a big softie."
The tour itself was a 90s-nostalgia phenomenon, a chance for a generation to relive Britpop's biggest rivalry-turned-reconciliation live, whether at Manchester's Heaton Park, in Seoul doing the Poznan, or watching from home. For the millions who couldn't get tickets, the film is being pitched as the next best thing — though don't expect it to dwell on the eye-watering ticket prices that dogged the tour's rollout. According to the Guardian's review, that subject is notably absent from the final cut.
What the film does capture, per the outlet, is the Gallaghers' politics and the family dynamics that made the split so public in the first place — now softened, apparently, by time and a shared stage. For fans who missed the reunion live, it's the closest they'll get to being in the room.
We're relying here on a single review from the Guardian's culture desk; we haven't independently verified every scene described and will update if other outlets weigh in differently.
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— Compiled from reporting by The Guardian (Culture).
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