Liam and Noel Gallagher live with Oasis in New York (Photos: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever Media)
The new documentary Oasis In Their Own Words brings together archive material to tell the BBC’s story of the Manchester band which defined a generation.
Charting Oasis‘ early success with interviews from Later…With Jools Holland and Zoe Ball on the nineties youth magazine show The O-Zone, it follows their progression to Knebworth and the same programme’s special from that weekend, and provides a stark reminder of just how omnipresent the Gallagher brothers were in the British press during the weeks and months after those gigs, Jeremy Vine and Jeremy Paxman providing a running Newsnight commentary on the aftermath of Liam’s US tour no-show, the former doing so with typical incredulity.
Like so many bands, Top Of The Pops signposts their career and the documentary throughout as the second, 21st century incarnation of the band is introduced back on Later…With Jools Holland with the fondly remembered hour-long special of 2000.
While there’s nothing new for diehard fans to get their teeth into, it’s a neat compilation of interviews and news-pieces which acts as a light appetiser to the feature length rockumentary Supersonic which premieres this weekend.
‘Oasis In Their Own Words’ is available on the iPlayer from Friday, September 30th.