Noel Gallagher
Below is the setlist from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds at DR Koncerthus in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Everybody's on the Run
Lock All the Doors
In the Heat of the Moment
Riverman
Fade Away
The Death of You and Me
You Know We Can't Go Back
Champagne Supernova
Ballad of the Mighty I
Talk Tonight
D'Yer Wanna Be a Spaceman?
The Mexican
Half the World Away
Listen Up
If I Had a Gun...
Digsy's Dinner
The Masterplan
Wonderwall
AKA... What a Life!
Don't Look Back in Anger
Setlist: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds In Copenhagen
Below is the setlist from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds at DR Koncerthus in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Everybody's on the Run
Lock All the Doors
In the Heat of the Moment
Riverman
Fade Away
The Death of You and Me
You Know We Can't Go Back
Champagne Supernova
Ballad of the Mighty I
Talk Tonight
D'Yer Wanna Be a Spaceman?
The Mexican
Half the World Away
Listen Up
If I Had a Gun...
Digsy's Dinner
The Masterplan
Wonderwall
AKA... What a Life!
Don't Look Back in Anger
Noel Gallagher
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will play at the A Summer's Tale Festival in Luhmuhlen, Germany (Aug 12th).
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Land In Luhmuhlen
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will play at the A Summer's Tale Festival in Luhmuhlen, Germany (Aug 12th).
Alan White
Bonehead
Guigsy
Liam Gallagher
Noel Gallagher
Oasis
The Prodigy
On August 11th 1996, Oasis played the second of two nights at Knebworth. Support for the two days included The Prodigy, Ocean Colour Scene, Charlatans, Manic Street Preachers, Kula Shaker and Dreadzone.
Below is a number of live tracks from the show..
On This Day In Oasis History...
On August 11th 1996, Oasis played the second of two nights at Knebworth. Support for the two days included The Prodigy, Ocean Colour Scene, Charlatans, Manic Street Preachers, Kula Shaker and Dreadzone.
Below is a number of live tracks from the show..
Manic Street Preachers
Oasis
Ocean Colour Scene
Steve Lamacq
The Charlatans
The Chemical Brothers
The Prodigy
Steve Lamacq celebrates the 20th anniversary of the seminal Britpop moment, when the biggest and most bombastic band of the time, Oasis, were at the height of their powers and played to 250,000 people over the weekend at Knebworth House.
In this special programme, exactly 20 years to the day since the first of the two events, Steve explores the build-up to the weekend, reflecting on why it was extraordinary for so many and sharing memories from those who were there and the memorabilia they have cherished all this time.
Steve will have new interviews from the bands which supported Oasis over the weekend, which included Prodigy, Manic Street Preachers, The Chemical Brothers, The Charlatans and Ocean Colour Scene. Plus we'll hear from those who made the monumental gigs happen, incuding Mike Lowe who built the biggest sound rig the country had seen at the time, and Henry Lytton Cobbold , owner of the Knebworth Estate.
In the final hour of the programme, you will be able to hear the concert, as it was broadcast live in 1996.
Listen to the show in full here, or just the concert highlights here.
Listen Again To Oasis At Knebworth
Steve Lamacq celebrates the 20th anniversary of the seminal Britpop moment, when the biggest and most bombastic band of the time, Oasis, were at the height of their powers and played to 250,000 people over the weekend at Knebworth House.
In this special programme, exactly 20 years to the day since the first of the two events, Steve explores the build-up to the weekend, reflecting on why it was extraordinary for so many and sharing memories from those who were there and the memorabilia they have cherished all this time.
Steve will have new interviews from the bands which supported Oasis over the weekend, which included Prodigy, Manic Street Preachers, The Chemical Brothers, The Charlatans and Ocean Colour Scene. Plus we'll hear from those who made the monumental gigs happen, incuding Mike Lowe who built the biggest sound rig the country had seen at the time, and Henry Lytton Cobbold , owner of the Knebworth Estate.
In the final hour of the programme, you will be able to hear the concert, as it was broadcast live in 1996.
Listen to the show in full here, or just the concert highlights here.
Alan McGee
Jarvis Cocker
Liam Gallagher
Manic Street Preachers
Noel Gallagher
Oasis
Today marks 20 years since 125,000 people descended on Knebworth to watch the greatest British rock band of the '90s do their thing on the first of two hot summer nights. Here, members of Oasis, the support acts, promoters and fans recall the momentous occasion.
Click here to read an article that was originally published to mark the tenth anniversary, in the August 5, 2006 issue of NME.
The Story Of Knebworth, By Liam And Noel Gallagher, Jarvis Cocker, The Charlatans, Manics, Alan McGee And More
Today marks 20 years since 125,000 people descended on Knebworth to watch the greatest British rock band of the '90s do their thing on the first of two hot summer nights. Here, members of Oasis, the support acts, promoters and fans recall the momentous occasion.
Click here to read an article that was originally published to mark the tenth anniversary, in the August 5, 2006 issue of NME.
Ewan McGregor
Noel Gallagher
For a few years now, a story has circulated online about the time Ewan McGregor, fresh off getting the cherished role of a young Obi-Wan Kenobi in the 1999 Star Wars prequel The Phantom Menance, battled Noel Gallagher in a lightsaber duel one morning after a night of partying. The tale came from the mouth of the Oasis guitarist, and while we never really doubted it, it did seem like maybe this was just some hallucination. The late-’90s were a haze for all of us.
Via Gallagher, the story goes like this: “Ewan McGregor was my neighbour, right, and he came round my house the night he got the part of Obi-Wan Kenobi. I just happened to have two of those lightsaber toys, so I said, “Come on — in the back garden.” And we had a fucking lightsaber fight. His first Jedi training session was with yours truly in my back garden at eight in the morning.”
Source: www.vanyaland.com
Ewan McGregor On Fighting With Noel Gallagher With A Lightsaber
For a few years now, a story has circulated online about the time Ewan McGregor, fresh off getting the cherished role of a young Obi-Wan Kenobi in the 1999 Star Wars prequel The Phantom Menance, battled Noel Gallagher in a lightsaber duel one morning after a night of partying. The tale came from the mouth of the Oasis guitarist, and while we never really doubted it, it did seem like maybe this was just some hallucination. The late-’90s were a haze for all of us.
Via Gallagher, the story goes like this: “Ewan McGregor was my neighbour, right, and he came round my house the night he got the part of Obi-Wan Kenobi. I just happened to have two of those lightsaber toys, so I said, “Come on — in the back garden.” And we had a fucking lightsaber fight. His first Jedi training session was with yours truly in my back garden at eight in the morning.”
Source: www.vanyaland.com
Liam Gallagher
Noel Gallagher
Oasis
On the 20th Anniversary of their iconic Knebworth concerts, the Oasis documentary Supersonic confirms its theatrical and home entertainment release dates.
Supersonic documents the rise of one of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll bands of our time.
Taking an in depth look at the often tumultuous relationship between brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher, two of the finest rock stars this country has ever produced; the film opens with the formation of Oasis in 1991 and culminates with their record breaking gig at Knebworth on 10th August 1996 – twenty years ago today.
With unprecedented access to the band, commentary from family and contributors from the time and incredible unseen archive material, the film follows the infamous group through the chaos of the early nineties in a thrilling documentary that pays homage to a band that influenced a generation and defined the sound of an era.
The film will be in cinemas in the UK and Ireland on 2nd October this year, with a special event broadcast via satellite into theatres nationwide. It will go on general release from 14th October.
Supersonic will be available to own on DVD and Blu-ray on 31st October.
Source: www.entertainment-focus.com
Oasis Documentary Supersonic Confirms Cinema & Home Entertainment Release Dates
On the 20th Anniversary of their iconic Knebworth concerts, the Oasis documentary Supersonic confirms its theatrical and home entertainment release dates.
Supersonic documents the rise of one of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll bands of our time.
Taking an in depth look at the often tumultuous relationship between brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher, two of the finest rock stars this country has ever produced; the film opens with the formation of Oasis in 1991 and culminates with their record breaking gig at Knebworth on 10th August 1996 – twenty years ago today.
With unprecedented access to the band, commentary from family and contributors from the time and incredible unseen archive material, the film follows the infamous group through the chaos of the early nineties in a thrilling documentary that pays homage to a band that influenced a generation and defined the sound of an era.
The film will be in cinemas in the UK and Ireland on 2nd October this year, with a special event broadcast via satellite into theatres nationwide. It will go on general release from 14th October.
Supersonic will be available to own on DVD and Blu-ray on 31st October.
Source: www.entertainment-focus.com
Cast
Manic Street Preachers
Noel Gallagher
Oasis
Ocea
Robbie Williams
The Charlatans
The Chemical Brothers
The Prodigy
An incredible 250,000 people flocked to see the Britpop legends at the Hertfordshire stately home over the two nights.
At the time, they were the biggest concerts held in the country.
Both shows bring back fond memories for Knebworth House’s Henry Lytton Cobbold, who has been reflecting on the 20-year anniversary of the Oasis gigs this week.
There were a reported three million ticket applications for the concerts – enough for Oasis to have sold out 24 consecutive nights at the iconic music venue.
The Gallagher brothers, Noel and Liam, were at the height of their popularity following the success of second album (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? and the concerts are regarded as the defining moment of the Britpop era.
But Knebworth’s Henry Lytton Cobbold revealed: “At the end of February we didn’t even know there was going to be a concert.
“We didn’t get the enquiry until the end of February.
“That is an extremely short lead time for a concert of this size.
“I think Robbie Williams took a year-and-a-half’s worth of planning.
“They had five months to get this together.
“That’s the shortest lead time we’ve ever had.
“They apparently had three million people apply for tickets, so they could have done six more weekends on that basis.
“So it was a massive moment.”
As well as Wonderwall band Oasis, the supporting cast over the two nights included the likes of The Prodigy, Manic Street Preachers, Cast, The Charlatans, The Chemical Brothers and Ocean Colour Scene.
Henry, however, doesn’t remember too much about the actual music. There were thirsty Oasis fans to satisfy.
He said: “My excuse is not because I was backstage quaffing Champagne with the likes of Mick Hucknell and Martine McCutcheon, my excuse is that we were running the bars that year.
“And to do the bars for 125,000 people, and we need to accept Oasis’ audience is a bar-based audience, it’s not a Buxton Water audience, we were particularly busy, particularly Martha [Henry’s wife], who was managing the bars.
“So I don’t remember much of the music.
“But it was an absolutely fantastic weekend and there are some great stories to come out of it.”
One such tale is of Noel Gallagher having a bath at the house on the Sunday morning.
“Oasis decided this was a party and they were going to stay in Winnebagos backstage,” said Henry.
The following morning Noel came up to Knebworth House asking if he could have a bath.
“My dad showed him to our Queen Elizabeth bedroom bathtub, which is a four-poster bathtub.
“As it was a big weekend for them, my dad brought Noel a bottle of Champagne to have in the bath.”
Henry added: “Noel’s talked about this since, saying he was brought a bottle of Champagne by a ‘liveried servant’ when, in fact, it was his Lordship.
“They then signed the visitors’ book and Noel signed ‘Noel Gallagher – clean!’.
“Then his bodyguard wrote his name and ‘Dirty!’.
“We should have perhaps kept the soap.”
Source: www.whtimes.co.uk
Oasis At Knebworth 20 Years On: ‘Noel Gallagher Popped Up To The House For A Bath’
An incredible 250,000 people flocked to see the Britpop legends at the Hertfordshire stately home over the two nights.
At the time, they were the biggest concerts held in the country.
Both shows bring back fond memories for Knebworth House’s Henry Lytton Cobbold, who has been reflecting on the 20-year anniversary of the Oasis gigs this week.
There were a reported three million ticket applications for the concerts – enough for Oasis to have sold out 24 consecutive nights at the iconic music venue.
The Gallagher brothers, Noel and Liam, were at the height of their popularity following the success of second album (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? and the concerts are regarded as the defining moment of the Britpop era.
But Knebworth’s Henry Lytton Cobbold revealed: “At the end of February we didn’t even know there was going to be a concert.
“We didn’t get the enquiry until the end of February.
“That is an extremely short lead time for a concert of this size.
“I think Robbie Williams took a year-and-a-half’s worth of planning.
“They had five months to get this together.
“That’s the shortest lead time we’ve ever had.
“They apparently had three million people apply for tickets, so they could have done six more weekends on that basis.
“So it was a massive moment.”
As well as Wonderwall band Oasis, the supporting cast over the two nights included the likes of The Prodigy, Manic Street Preachers, Cast, The Charlatans, The Chemical Brothers and Ocean Colour Scene.
Henry, however, doesn’t remember too much about the actual music. There were thirsty Oasis fans to satisfy.
He said: “My excuse is not because I was backstage quaffing Champagne with the likes of Mick Hucknell and Martine McCutcheon, my excuse is that we were running the bars that year.
“And to do the bars for 125,000 people, and we need to accept Oasis’ audience is a bar-based audience, it’s not a Buxton Water audience, we were particularly busy, particularly Martha [Henry’s wife], who was managing the bars.
“So I don’t remember much of the music.
“But it was an absolutely fantastic weekend and there are some great stories to come out of it.”
One such tale is of Noel Gallagher having a bath at the house on the Sunday morning.
“Oasis decided this was a party and they were going to stay in Winnebagos backstage,” said Henry.
The following morning Noel came up to Knebworth House asking if he could have a bath.
“My dad showed him to our Queen Elizabeth bedroom bathtub, which is a four-poster bathtub.
“As it was a big weekend for them, my dad brought Noel a bottle of Champagne to have in the bath.”
Henry added: “Noel’s talked about this since, saying he was brought a bottle of Champagne by a ‘liveried servant’ when, in fact, it was his Lordship.
“They then signed the visitors’ book and Noel signed ‘Noel Gallagher – clean!’.
“Then his bodyguard wrote his name and ‘Dirty!’.
“We should have perhaps kept the soap.”
Source: www.whtimes.co.uk
Oasis
Today marks the 20th Anniversary of the first of Oasis’ era defining Knebworth gigs!
To celebrate My Big Mouth (Live At Knebworth Park) has been made available to stream or download here.
Have a listen of the track below, the video includes original footage of Knebworth from the band’s helicopter.
Video: Oasis Arrive At Knebworth By Helicopter And Download/Stream Links For 'My Big Mouth' (Live At Knebworth Park)
Today marks the 20th Anniversary of the first of Oasis’ era defining Knebworth gigs!
To celebrate My Big Mouth (Live At Knebworth Park) has been made available to stream or download here.
Have a listen of the track below, the video includes original footage of Knebworth from the band’s helicopter.
Alan White
Bonehead
Cast
Chris Evans
Guigsy
Kate Moss
Liam Gallagher
Noel Gallagher
Oasis
Robbie Williams
The Prodigy
Twenty years ago today, Oasis played the first of two concerts at Knebworth in Hertfordshire, England.
They were the biggest gigs of their era. The crowning glory of Britpop. Incredibly, one in 20 Britons applied for tickets.
A quarter of a million eventually got to see Liam, Noel, Bonehead, Guigsy and Whitey as they confirmed their status as the most popular British band since The Beatles. (A status that was swiftly rescinded when the band released their overblown, coke-addled third album Be Here Now 12 months later.)
But, in that moment, it was hard to argue with Noel when he strode on stage and declared: "You're making history, you lot."
"I'll never forget the sheer scale of it," says Bonehead, AKA guitarist Paul Arthurs.
"We flew in from London by helicopter and sort of circled the site. It landed behind the stage but we were like: 'Let's just do a once round and take it all in.' I'll never forget it."
Not that conditions were completely idyllic. According to one report, singer Liam Gallagher was not too enamoured with the catering, screaming about the state of the sausages and flinging a handful of corn on the cob to the floor.
Bonehead also found it difficult to prepare, thanks to an inconsiderate support act.
"We stayed in these Winnebago, caravan things at the back of the stage," he tells BBC 6 Music.
"I remember thinking 'I'll just have a quick hour in bed before we go on', and the Prodigy came on. If you've ever tried to sleep 20ft from the stage when the Prodigy were on live? Forget that."
Sleep deprived or not, the band blew away the fans. "Hello, hello, hello. Let's go," said Liam, before launching into a gut-punching opening salvo of Columbia, Acquiesce and Supersonic.
Almost two hours later, they ended their set with a celebratory cover of The Beatles' I Am The Walrus, capped by a spectacular fireworks display.
But it was the ballads, tucked away in the second half of the set, that really brought the crowd together - 125,000 voices per night united for the choruses of Wonderwall and Don't Look Back In Anger.
Despite the band's later reputation for attracting a less refined crowd, the atmosphere was overwhelmingly good natured. In between support acts, the audience engaged in mock fights with empty paper cups, while police recorded only one arrest.
Attended by Kate Moss, Chris Evans and Mick Hucknall (who set tongues wagging by bringing along soap star Martine McCutcheon), the shows made headline news - but the importance was not immediately apparent to the musicians.
"It's weird," says John Power, whose band Cast were one of the support acts. "Sometimes these things, because you're involved in it, and because you see the bands all the time... it felt like it was just another a stepping stone to where this movement, or all these bands were going.
"Oasis were massive obviously. But I think, now, looking back on it, I don't think it could have got any bigger than that."
Always the most analytical member of Oasis, Noel Gallagher realised sooner than most that the band had peaked.
"I remember sitting there, at Knebworth, in the backstage area, and someone saying, 'Well, what now?' And I was like, 'I couldn't tell ya,'" he later told Uncut magazine.
"And that was how I felt for a good couple of years afterwards. I really suffered. It's like, what do you do when you've done everything? You kind of sink into boredom. Kind of directionless."
Looking back, Power agrees: "I think maybe that is the time where maybe [Britpop] started to slowly come down a bit, like.
"That doesn't mean there wasn't great performances going on and great music being made - but you can only contain so much fizz in a can before you've got to pop it."
For fans, however, Knebworth is a fond memory (even if the queues for the toilets and food stalls remain a nightmare).
The gigs were even enough to rile Liam's arch-enemy Robbie Williams into booking three nights at Knebworth, before allegedly asking Oasis to support him in a letter accompanied by a pair of tap dancing shoes.
Not everyone was so bowled over, though.
Matthew Wright, writing in The Mirror, called the shows "as flat as stale champagne", prompting a foul-mouthed phone call from Noel, who told him: "That's the last time you have anything to do with my [expletive] band."
Meanwhile, Henry Lytton Cobbold, who owns the Knebworth estate, has an altogether more unique perspective on the weekend's events.
"Amusingly, Noel Gallagher on Sunday morning, decided he wanted a bath, so he came up to the back door of Knebworth House, rang the doorbell and asked if he could have a bath," he recalls.
"My dad, who was in the house at the time, showed him up to the Queen Elizabeth bathroom - and brought him a bottle of champagne.
"I've since read him describe that he was served champagne by liveried servants, but it was actually my dad!
"He then wrote in the Knebworth House guest book: 'Noel Gallagher (clean!)'
"As an historic house with an archivist and a museum, those things now become part of our collection.
"I just wish we'd kept the soap."
You can hear more about Oasis's landmark Knebworth gigs on Steve Lamacq's BBC 6 Music show from 16:00 BST on Wednesday. The programme will conclude with a broadcast of the concert, as originally heard on BBC Radio 1 in 1996.
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Oasis At Knebworth: 20 Years Since Britpop's Biggest Gigs
Twenty years ago today, Oasis played the first of two concerts at Knebworth in Hertfordshire, England.
They were the biggest gigs of their era. The crowning glory of Britpop. Incredibly, one in 20 Britons applied for tickets.
A quarter of a million eventually got to see Liam, Noel, Bonehead, Guigsy and Whitey as they confirmed their status as the most popular British band since The Beatles. (A status that was swiftly rescinded when the band released their overblown, coke-addled third album Be Here Now 12 months later.)
But, in that moment, it was hard to argue with Noel when he strode on stage and declared: "You're making history, you lot."
"I'll never forget the sheer scale of it," says Bonehead, AKA guitarist Paul Arthurs.
"We flew in from London by helicopter and sort of circled the site. It landed behind the stage but we were like: 'Let's just do a once round and take it all in.' I'll never forget it."
Not that conditions were completely idyllic. According to one report, singer Liam Gallagher was not too enamoured with the catering, screaming about the state of the sausages and flinging a handful of corn on the cob to the floor.
Bonehead also found it difficult to prepare, thanks to an inconsiderate support act.
"We stayed in these Winnebago, caravan things at the back of the stage," he tells BBC 6 Music.
"I remember thinking 'I'll just have a quick hour in bed before we go on', and the Prodigy came on. If you've ever tried to sleep 20ft from the stage when the Prodigy were on live? Forget that."
Sleep deprived or not, the band blew away the fans. "Hello, hello, hello. Let's go," said Liam, before launching into a gut-punching opening salvo of Columbia, Acquiesce and Supersonic.
Almost two hours later, they ended their set with a celebratory cover of The Beatles' I Am The Walrus, capped by a spectacular fireworks display.
But it was the ballads, tucked away in the second half of the set, that really brought the crowd together - 125,000 voices per night united for the choruses of Wonderwall and Don't Look Back In Anger.
Despite the band's later reputation for attracting a less refined crowd, the atmosphere was overwhelmingly good natured. In between support acts, the audience engaged in mock fights with empty paper cups, while police recorded only one arrest.
Attended by Kate Moss, Chris Evans and Mick Hucknall (who set tongues wagging by bringing along soap star Martine McCutcheon), the shows made headline news - but the importance was not immediately apparent to the musicians.
"It's weird," says John Power, whose band Cast were one of the support acts. "Sometimes these things, because you're involved in it, and because you see the bands all the time... it felt like it was just another a stepping stone to where this movement, or all these bands were going.
"Oasis were massive obviously. But I think, now, looking back on it, I don't think it could have got any bigger than that."
Always the most analytical member of Oasis, Noel Gallagher realised sooner than most that the band had peaked.
"I remember sitting there, at Knebworth, in the backstage area, and someone saying, 'Well, what now?' And I was like, 'I couldn't tell ya,'" he later told Uncut magazine.
"And that was how I felt for a good couple of years afterwards. I really suffered. It's like, what do you do when you've done everything? You kind of sink into boredom. Kind of directionless."
Looking back, Power agrees: "I think maybe that is the time where maybe [Britpop] started to slowly come down a bit, like.
"That doesn't mean there wasn't great performances going on and great music being made - but you can only contain so much fizz in a can before you've got to pop it."
For fans, however, Knebworth is a fond memory (even if the queues for the toilets and food stalls remain a nightmare).
The gigs were even enough to rile Liam's arch-enemy Robbie Williams into booking three nights at Knebworth, before allegedly asking Oasis to support him in a letter accompanied by a pair of tap dancing shoes.
Not everyone was so bowled over, though.
Matthew Wright, writing in The Mirror, called the shows "as flat as stale champagne", prompting a foul-mouthed phone call from Noel, who told him: "That's the last time you have anything to do with my [expletive] band."
Meanwhile, Henry Lytton Cobbold, who owns the Knebworth estate, has an altogether more unique perspective on the weekend's events.
"Amusingly, Noel Gallagher on Sunday morning, decided he wanted a bath, so he came up to the back door of Knebworth House, rang the doorbell and asked if he could have a bath," he recalls.
"My dad, who was in the house at the time, showed him up to the Queen Elizabeth bathroom - and brought him a bottle of champagne.
"I've since read him describe that he was served champagne by liveried servants, but it was actually my dad!
"He then wrote in the Knebworth House guest book: 'Noel Gallagher (clean!)'
"As an historic house with an archivist and a museum, those things now become part of our collection.
"I just wish we'd kept the soap."
You can hear more about Oasis's landmark Knebworth gigs on Steve Lamacq's BBC 6 Music show from 16:00 BST on Wednesday. The programme will conclude with a broadcast of the concert, as originally heard on BBC Radio 1 in 1996.
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Charlatans
Manic Street Preachers
Oasis
Ocean Colour Scene
The Chemical Brothers
The Prodigy
BBC Radio 6
16:00 - 17:00 (UK Time)
Steve Lamacq celebrates the 20th anniversary of the seminal Britpop moment, when the biggest and most bombastic band of the time, Oasis, were at the height of their powers and played to 250,000 people over the weekend at Knebworth House. In this special programme, exactly 20 years to the day since the first of the two events, Steve explores the build-up to the weekend, reflecting on why it was extraordinary for so many and sharing memories from those who were there and the memorabilia they have cherished all this time.
Steve will have new interviews from the bands which supported Oasis over the weekend, which included Prodigy, Manic Street Preachers, The Chemical Brothers, The Charlatans and Ocean Colour Scene. Plus we'll hear from those who made the monumental gigs happen, incuding Mike Lowe who built the biggest sound rig the country had seen at the time, and Henry Lytton Cobbold , owner of the Knebworth Estate. In the final hour of the programme, you will be able to hear the concert, as it was broadcast live in 1996.
If you were at Knebworth and want to share your memories, send them to lamacq.6music@bbc.co.uk.
Listen to the show live here.
Listen To Oasis First Concert At Knebworth In Full On BBC Radio 6 Later Today
BBC Radio 6
16:00 - 17:00 (UK Time)
Steve Lamacq celebrates the 20th anniversary of the seminal Britpop moment, when the biggest and most bombastic band of the time, Oasis, were at the height of their powers and played to 250,000 people over the weekend at Knebworth House. In this special programme, exactly 20 years to the day since the first of the two events, Steve explores the build-up to the weekend, reflecting on why it was extraordinary for so many and sharing memories from those who were there and the memorabilia they have cherished all this time.
Steve will have new interviews from the bands which supported Oasis over the weekend, which included Prodigy, Manic Street Preachers, The Chemical Brothers, The Charlatans and Ocean Colour Scene. Plus we'll hear from those who made the monumental gigs happen, incuding Mike Lowe who built the biggest sound rig the country had seen at the time, and Henry Lytton Cobbold , owner of the Knebworth Estate. In the final hour of the programme, you will be able to hear the concert, as it was broadcast live in 1996.
If you were at Knebworth and want to share your memories, send them to lamacq.6music@bbc.co.uk.
Listen to the show live here.
Alan White
Blur
Bonehead
Charlatans
Damon Albarn
Dreadzone
Guigsy
John Squire
Kula Shaker
Liam Gallagher
Manic Street Preachers
Noel Gallagher
Oasis
Ocean Colour Scene
Stone Roses
The Prodigy
On August 10th 1996, Oasis played the first of two nights at Knebworth. Support for the two days included The Prodigy, Ocean Colour Scene, Charlatans, Manic Street Preachers, Kula Shaker and Dreadzone.
Below is a review from THE TIMES of the show.
Review: Oasis at Knebworth, 1996
One in 20 Britons applied for tickets to see Oasis in concert at Knebworth. Our critic joined the crowd on Saturday.
Three million people, 5 per cent of the population, applied for tickets and those lucky enough to get them were treated to two new songs, My Big Mouth and It's Getting Better Man , along with tried and tested hits. With a guest list of 7,000 there were plenty of opportunities for star-spotting: Mick Hucknall of Simply Red, Jarvis Cocker and Kate Moss made their way to the celebrity enclosure to compare bodyguards with Liam Gallagher and Patsy Kensit, and all looked disingenuously surprised when mobbed by amateur paparazzi.
For those not chosen as Kate Moss's plus one, there were tickets still available at a price. Cro-Magnon touts were willing to get you into "The Gig of the Decade" for £300, a sizeable mark-up from £22.50. Once inside, many would have gladly paid £300 to avoid queues. There were 400-yard tailbacks for each bar and toilet. But with the temperature into the 70s and a PA so powerful everyone was guaranteed to leave touched by tinnitus, such matters were of little importance. Oasis took to the stage at 9pm, greeted by a roar so huge that flocks of birds took to the sky from Knebworth's old oaks.
"Hello, hello, hello," Liam said, making a fairly good job of John Lennon's famous "retard" impression. "Let's go." And off they went, kicking out the music that has made the Top 40 truly exciting for the first time in ten years and working hard for the estimated £5.6 million the weekend accrued.
Joined for the inevitable encore of Champagne Supernova by The Stone Roses's ex-guitar player John Squire, Oasis bowed out in a blaze of guitar solos and a firework display. As many tired and emotional punters fell over backwards, disorientated from staring at the sky so long, Martin Carr of the Boo Radleys said: "Everyone in Britain - except Damon from Blur - loves Oasis. They can do no wrong." He would appear to be right.
On This Day In Oasis History...
On August 10th 1996, Oasis played the first of two nights at Knebworth. Support for the two days included The Prodigy, Ocean Colour Scene, Charlatans, Manic Street Preachers, Kula Shaker and Dreadzone.
Below is a review from THE TIMES of the show.
Review: Oasis at Knebworth, 1996
One in 20 Britons applied for tickets to see Oasis in concert at Knebworth. Our critic joined the crowd on Saturday.
Three million people, 5 per cent of the population, applied for tickets and those lucky enough to get them were treated to two new songs, My Big Mouth and It's Getting Better Man , along with tried and tested hits. With a guest list of 7,000 there were plenty of opportunities for star-spotting: Mick Hucknall of Simply Red, Jarvis Cocker and Kate Moss made their way to the celebrity enclosure to compare bodyguards with Liam Gallagher and Patsy Kensit, and all looked disingenuously surprised when mobbed by amateur paparazzi.
For those not chosen as Kate Moss's plus one, there were tickets still available at a price. Cro-Magnon touts were willing to get you into "The Gig of the Decade" for £300, a sizeable mark-up from £22.50. Once inside, many would have gladly paid £300 to avoid queues. There were 400-yard tailbacks for each bar and toilet. But with the temperature into the 70s and a PA so powerful everyone was guaranteed to leave touched by tinnitus, such matters were of little importance. Oasis took to the stage at 9pm, greeted by a roar so huge that flocks of birds took to the sky from Knebworth's old oaks.
"Hello, hello, hello," Liam said, making a fairly good job of John Lennon's famous "retard" impression. "Let's go." And off they went, kicking out the music that has made the Top 40 truly exciting for the first time in ten years and working hard for the estimated £5.6 million the weekend accrued.
Joined for the inevitable encore of Champagne Supernova by The Stone Roses's ex-guitar player John Squire, Oasis bowed out in a blaze of guitar solos and a firework display. As many tired and emotional punters fell over backwards, disorientated from staring at the sky so long, Martin Carr of the Boo Radleys said: "Everyone in Britain - except Damon from Blur - loves Oasis. They can do no wrong." He would appear to be right.
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