Oasis
Don't Look Back In Anger

Oasis: Don’t Look Back In Anger is an emotional look at the legacy and unlikely reunion of one of the biggest bands to ever come out of England.

 

 

“The penny has dropped.  No more bullshit anymore.” ~ Liam Gallagher

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Jason Landry, contributor 

 

30 years ago I won tickets from my local alternative radio station WFNX to see Oasis in concert at the Worcester Centrum in Massachusetts. To be honest, the show wasn’t that memorable to me—but as I took a deeper dive into their music, they became a mainstay in many of my playlists. The lyrics, the guitar sound, the attitude—combined it was as equally appealing to me. Plus, Liam’s commentary on most subjects has always been hilarious.

 

When their recent reunion tour happened in 2025, I tried unsuccessfully to score some tickets for one of their Wembley Stadium gigs—a definite bucket list item. All of the cellphone videos from their tour stops kept popping up in my Instagram feed making me super jealous. 

 

But today, the jealousy has faded, because,

A.) Oasis plan to announce a series of concerts in 2027, and 

B.) I got to preview their film, Oasis: Don’t Look Back In Anger that documented the whole 2025 reunion.

 

After not talking for 15 years, a number of billboards with the brothers standing together started to pop up in various cities across the globe, signaling something huge was brewing—and the world took notice—the hype was real! 

 

Fans who thought that never in a million years would they be able to see their favorite band play live was now going to have a chance to. But many would ask: would they make it through one show, not alone a whole tour? Noel Gallagher was thinking the exact same thing. 

 

After the collapse of their 2009 tour where their final show ended in a brawl between the brothers, Noel flat out said that he couldn’t see being back on stage with his brother Liam. But then they started a vigorous rehearsal and things started to click. 

 

The film captured the excitement in its entirety leading up to the first show. The band wanted to change the past narrative, and this was their chance.

 

The build-up to opening night was overwhelming. Fans flocked to the stadium dressed in their favorite Oasis football jerseys and wore their bucket hats all while singing in unison their favorite songs. The cheering was deafening as the stadium filled to capacity. When the band walked on stage, Noel and Liam came out hand in hand, arms raised almost in victory. This moment gave me goosebumps and an emotional weight hit me. The crowd erupted—many of them in tears.

 

During my favorite song “Cigarettes and Alcohol”, Liam told the audience to all turn around and embrace one and other and bounce. In unison, the whole place was bouncing up and down, everyone was smiling and laughing about, and all the while I couldn’t help thinking, did the engineers who built these locations take this amount of bounce and flex into consideration when they built these venues?

 

Often times during some of the gigs Noel said he would have to turn his back to the audience because seeing certain things in the audience brought tears to his eyes—like fathers and sons enjoying the show together. As he stated, “I wasn’t truly prepared for what I was experiencing.”

 

Between the concert footage and band commentary, a number of interviews with fans from around the world are interspersed throughout the film. It didn’t matter where they were from—Brazil, Korea, Argentina, the U.S. or Ireland, their stories were all similar. The power of their music brought people together…it healed people. It helped others get through tough times.

 

Listening to the fan interviews and stories reminded me of a line from the movie Almost Famous. One of the characters said,
 

”They don't even know what it is to be a fan. Y'know? To truly love some silly little piece of music, or some band, so much that it hurts.” When it came to Oasis, these people did.

 

As Liam proclaimed, “The penny has dropped. No more bullshit anymore.” The Gallagher brothers locked in and performed some of their greatest shows to date. The proud products of Manchester England put all of their differences aside without a single word about it. The only thing that wasn’t really mentioned was how it all came to be. Who called who? How did it all come about? But, then again, who really cares at this point. We have one of history’s greatest rock bands back in true form.

 

Oasis: Don’t Look Back In Anger is one of the better music-related films that I have watched in recent years. It really shows newer fans what all the hype was about and reminds older fans what they have truly and knowingly missed over the years. It personally moved me, or as Liam would say, it's biblical! I wouldn’t be surprised if it converts a whole new generation of fans along the way.