Oasis Knebworth 1996 is the highest-grossing documentary of 2021

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28 Sep 2021, 12:45

It looks like this documentary is going to Live Forever. The film on the iconic band released last week has broken the UK box office record and stolen the crown as the highest-grossing documentary of 2021.

Telling the story of the legendary band playing to 250,000 over a single weekend, there's never-seen-before footage on the infamous Brit pop gods and narration from Noel Gallagher and Bonehead.

Sony Music Entertainment's Tom Mackay said: “We are thrilled to see that fans around the world have enjoyed the incredible cinematic experience of Oasis Knebworth 1996 and we look forward to providing audiences with even more opportunities to relive the energy and excitement around these iconic concerts soon."

Noel said: “I was so f****** arrogant at the time that it didn’t really register. Genuinely. It’s only since Supersonic (Oasis’s 2016 documentary) and this film that you try and put yourself back in there and you get goosebumps.

"I’m not sure there are any bands who had that lift-off like we did. We were still in the same circumstances as our audience, almost. It is a snapshot of a band, of its zenith. It is a great moment for the band.

"Morning Glory (Oasis’s second album, in 1995) hadn’t really taken off. We were loaded but we hadn’t really got paid. You know, the f****** chimps hadn’t turned up and tigers and fur coats.”

He added at the film’s London premiere last week: “This is a band doing a gig that performed before any of these s***** words that are in our vocabulary like focus groups, iTunes, Apple, Microsoft, camera phones and all that bull. To see a sea of people like that in the moment . . . if you go to Glastonbury now it is f****** annoying, flags everywhere. We had not one flag, not one mobile phone, no one texting. It’s a snapshot in time.”

Speaking off camera, Liam, said: “People always ask me what Knebworth was like and I always say, ‘Oh, I can’t remember much about it’. But this film has brought it all back. For me, it was the Woodstock of the Nineties. The music and the people coming together, it was biblical and I will never forget it.”

Will you be watching? Definitely Maybe.