Noel Gallagher on the new film marking 25 years since his old band's era-defining gigs.
Noel Gallagher has said Oasis had "no fear" about playing to 250,000 fans over two nights at Knebworth, adding if his old band were to do it again now they would be "petrified".
"I don't think we'd done 10,000 hours [practice] by the time we walked out at Knebworth, so we had no fear," the guitarist continued. "If we were doing Knebworth tomorrow, we'd be petrified. But those years spent in [old Manchester venue} the Boardwalk rehearsing, rehearsing, rehearsing stood us in good stead.
For historical context, the event took place just after Euro 96 and on the cusp of New Labour's election victory. After "years of bleakness", as Noel puts it, Britain - boasting Oasis, Kate Moss, Damien Hirst and Trainspotting- was once again cool. Oasis themselves hadn't yet been paid in full for their best-selling second album, he noted, and so Knebworth marked the last time they were ever remotely close to their adoring fans again in terms of lifestyle and wealth.
So he set about finding fans to tell their tales of what the event had meant to them - both at the time and now looking back. We see mad scrambles for tickets, trains and buses, mass singalongs and ecstatic declarations of love for Liam. One fan is scared senseless by Keith Flint from support act The Prodigy, who almost stole the show, while another manages to blag a lift out of the festival site in a limousine carrying Kate Moss and Anna Friel.
It's thought that there were 7,000 people on the guest-list, including Kate Moss, Jarvis Cocker, Chris Evans, Mick Hucknall, Martine McCutcheon, Anna Friel and Ant and Dec.The concerts even had their own radio station: Radio Supernova broadcast on 106.6 FM within a 20-mile radius of the site. A picture looking out from the stage at the Knebworth gigs was used for the cover of Oasis compilation Time Flies… 1994-2009.Oasis guitarist Paul Bonehead Arthurs thinks the band should have split up straight after the event. "I always thought we should have bowed out after the second night at Knebworth," he told The Guardian in 2009.
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