‘Would they fight or hug?’ The Oasis comeback film’s makers on shooting fans, vicars, police – and the Gallaghers
A documentary about Oasis's 2025 reunion tour, Don't Look Back In Anger, reveals the tense drama behind the comeback, including Liam Gallagher arriving just 20 minutes before the opening Cardiff show and leaving brother Noel pacing anxiously backstage. Directors Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern, longtime Oasis fans themselves, describe being overwhelmed by the intensity of fan emotion at the shows, which they say revealed how the brothers' music had healed a bitter, decades-long rift that reached beyond the band to affect millions of fans.
The film covers the Oasis Live 25 tour, which ran to 41 concerts across 14 countries and five continents and drew more than two million fans, 16 years after the band split following Liam swinging a guitar at Noel backstage in Paris. To capture unguarded rehearsal footage in London, the directors hid cameras within the sound equipment and monitored proceedings from a "grotty Portakabin" outside for six weeks without the band noticing. Steven Knight, creator of Peaky Blinders, was brought on as scriptwriter, and the directors previously made music documentaries including Meet Me in the Bathroom and LCD Soundsystem's Shut Up and Play the Hits.
- New documentary captures Oasis's emotional 2025 reunion tour and Gallagher brothers' reconciliation.
- Liam arrived just 20 minutes before the first Cardiff show began.
- Directors hid cameras in sound equipment to film secret rehearsals unnoticed.
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Oasis, the Manchester rock band led by brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher, split acrimoniously in 2009 after Liam swung a guitar at Noel backstage in Paris, ending years of public feuding. In 2025 the pair reunited for the Oasis Live 25 tour, a run of 41 shows across 14 countries that drew more than two million fans and was seen as a landmark reconciliation after nearly two decades of rancour between them.
A new documentary, Don't Look Back In Anger, goes behind the scenes of that reunion, made by directors Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern, who have previously made music films about acts including LCD Soundsystem. Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight worked on the script, and the film draws on secretly placed cameras during rehearsals as well as footage from the tour itself to show the tension and uncertainty surrounding whether the brothers' relationship would hold.
The film matters because it offers a rare, detailed look at the personal dynamics behind one of music's most closely watched comebacks, capturing both the fragility of the Gallaghers' relationship and the scale of public and fan investment in whether it would succeed.