For anyone who saw Oasis’s record-breaking comeback tour last year, the new documentary Don’t Look Back in Anger will prove an incredibly moving watch. Following the biggest British band of the 90s around the world in 2025, Steven Knight – also the creator of Peaky Blinders – brilliantly captures the euphoria and unity of fans at the reunion tour they never thought they’d see. I got goosebumps more than once watching the electrifying concert footage and the emotional reaction from fans, particularly from the gig I saw – the utterly brilliant opening night in Cardiff.
From Brazil to Argentina to South Korea, Knight finds young people who have latched on to these 30-year-old songs about hopes and dreams, written in far-away Manchester. Some stories are more interesting than others, but the point is made: Oasis have global reach – they are a band of the people like no other.
For a documentary that was supposed to tell the story of their reunion, though, there are key questions left unanswered. Mainly: how, when and why did this all happen?
After a potted-history montage of their 90s rise and Noughties fallout, and that fateful fight in Paris in 2009, we cut straight to rehearsals six weeks before opening night. The rehearsal footage is enlightening. Noel is band leader and hard taskmaster; Liam’s entrance to the room weeks into the process is genuinely tense: no hugs, handshakes or acknowledgments, the ice broken by Liam’s annoyance at the soundproof panels on Joey Wartonker’s drum kit. “It’s giving me the hump,” he says. “I’m not sure if Our Kid is enjoying himself,” Noel wonders later to the band.
But how and why they got there is a mystery. There are no details of what happened for the previous 15 years, of how vicious the fallout got or the discussions and brotherly reproachment that led to the tour. And if the Gallaghers’ relationship was being repaired in real time, it is never shown – a baffling omission given the widespread interest in the soap opera of their relationship. The dynamic ticket pricing controversy is similarly ignored, bar one throwaway on-stage comment by Liam about people in the cheap seats. “Actually, there are no cheap seats, sorry about that,” he says. An explanation would have been nice.
The message of forgiveness is key to the film, but again, we are none the wiser how Noel goes from being, in his own words, “someone who can’t forgive” to saying at the end that “all was forgiven without a word”. It doesn’t ring true, and puts a huge hole in the film’s narrative arc. Perhaps a more truthful-sounding answer like “money” – at the very least the probable instigator – would have punctured the film’s unapologetically uplifting feel.
But the brothers’ remade bond does seem to be sincere and lasting. Seeing them jointly interviewed towards the end, and so happy in each other’s company, is touching. “All the little things that used to annoy us about each other have gone away,” Noel says. “It’s not a power struggle anymore.” He marvels at Liam’s performances and says he forgot what Liam meant to people, and even calls Liam “delightful” – a word he admits he never thought he’d use to describe his younger brother.
Footage of the Oasis reunion is unapologetically uplifting – but this film doesn’t explain how the brothers got there (Photo: Simon Emmett/Disney+)For his part, Liam, who admits to missing Noel in the interim, is very complimentary about his brother. “They’re his songs… they come from his soul. He deserves it and the songs deserve it.” Noel says the pair are now “like mates” who contact each “way, way way more than we ever did”, sharing videos on WhatsApp.
Maybe Noel just got older. While the film paints Liam as calmer, focussed – he ditched the drink and fags for the tour – he is essentially unchanged. His interviews are full of his brilliantly sideways logic (“it takes a lot of caring to not give a f**k”) and he remains as funny as ever, his riff on Mick Jagger’s dancing a highlight.
Noel, meanwhile, comes over as unusually vulnerable as he reaches 6. He admits nerves and doubts about the tour; being so overwhelmed on-stage in Cardiff he needed a time out; crying pre-gig in Dublin, his mum Peggy’s hometown. He gushes about the Gallagher kids, strangers until the tour, bonding so meaningfully.
He was also uncharacteristically at a loss for words, unable to articulate just how Oasis’s music has been embraced by an entirely new generation so forcefully – “it’s the power of music” is his answer – though he also insists “people” (i.e. the press) still don’t fully understand Oasis’s appeal. “It’s not a right-wing thing,” he says defiantly, no doubt still stung by an article – referenced in an official statement after the tour – that called Oasis “the most damaging pop-cultural force in recent British history”. Noel says: “All are welcome. It’s we and us.”
That is clearly the case watching the scenes of pandemonium from fans in every corner of the globe. And that is the real purpose of Don’t Look Back in Anger: enjoy the amazing concert footage and sense of rare togetherness the tour brought, and leave the thorny questions for another day.
‘Don’t Look Back in Anger’ is in cinemas now
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