That Noel and Liam Gallagher would attend the Venice press conference for their new documentary was always a definitely maybe.
In the end, the brothers, reunited after a 15 year split and hot off a blockbuster global tour — the subject of the doc, Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger — did not meet the press in Venice. After posing for a photo call, the Gallaghers buggered off and it was down to Steven Knight, creator of the documentary, and directors Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace to be here now and roll with it.
The doc follows Oasis across 12 concerts on three continents during their Live ’25 tour, the band’s first live appearances since their acrimonious split back in 2009. The tour was a phenomenal success, generating more than $400 million in box office revenue.
Knight, known for creating Peaky Blinders, had never made a documentary before, but said he jumped at the opportunity.
“And speaking first of all to Noel, and he saying that they were astonished at the response to the announcement of the tour, because there was such demand for tickets, it was apparent that only the generation who had originally loved Oasis, but the next generation had discovered the music and had, you know, a strong attachment to it. And the question was, why did that happen?”
