Oasis Announces Feature Length Knebworth Concert Documentary

11 May 2021 - Press release

Cinematic Release Planned to Celebrate Knebworth’s 25th Anniversary

Film to be Directed by Jake Scott

 

It was the concert that defined an era. Two days in August 1996 that will be remembered forever by 250,000 fans. On a scale rarely seen before or since, Oasis staged one of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll events to ever take place on British soil.

25 years to the day since tickets for the event went on sale Oasis have confirmed that Knebworth will be immortalised on the big screen with the release of a feature length documentary film of the events. Jake Scott will direct the film. Scott’s videos for Oasis, R.E.M, U2, The Verve, The Rolling Stones and many more make him the perfect man to put the scale, ambition, cultural significance and visceral rock n roll excess and abandon of 1996 onto the big screen. 

The film will be produced by RSA Films and Noel Gallagher and Liam Gallagher will serve as executive producers. It will be financed and distributed by Sony Music Entertainment and released theatrically by Trafalgar Releasing.

In 1996, Britain was in the midst of a cultural explosion. Set against a backdrop of the rise of New Labour, Euro ‘96, Mandela’s visit to Britain, and the height of Britpop, the film will be a crucial document of *the* moment that defined an era and cultural revolution. In just over two years, Oasis had ridden to the top and Knebworth was the jewel in the crown. Nearly a quarter of a century later, that weekend lives on as a milestone in rock ‘n’ roll history. 

Speaking of the film Jake Scott said: “It’s a story driven entirely by the music, a rock and roll experience, told in the moment, like a visual stream of consciousness that is built around the extensive archive footage from the event. No on-camera interviews or unnecessary celebrity recollections.”

A moment such as Knebworth deserves its place alongside the cinematic concert documentaries such as ‘Let It Be’, ‘Monterey Pop’ and ‘Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones’, the tragic Altamont film that documents the turning point that signified the end of the ‘60s.

The Knebworth concert film will be released later this year.