Oasis fans have been sharing footage and memories as the band mark the 30th anniversary of their legendary Knebworth concerts.
Today (August 10) marks 30 years since the band first played their 1996 super gigs, which sold out in under 24 hours and saw them welcome 250,000 fans across two nights. There were reportedly 2.6million people scrambling to get tickets for those 1996 shows – the equivalent of 5 per cent of the entire UK population – and the demand was so high that they could have sold out 20 nights at the venue.
The band later released a live album from the shows and later celebrated the 25th anniversary with a feature-length documentary, which went on to become the country’s highest-grossing documentary film of 2021.
Today, Oasis took to Instagram to share pictures and footage from the shows.
Many fans also took to social media to share footage and their memories from 30 years ago.
One fan wrote: “It was my fifth or sixth Oasis gig but this was just on another level We managed to get on to the roof of a burger van right at the back of the bowl for the big finish, and watching 125,000 people absolutely loving life as the opening bars to Champagne Supernova were struck up was like a moment in time.”
Another added: “I remember them walking onto the stage with those huge balloons being thrown into the crowd. I remember my excitement, my tears. I even remember plastic chickens flying around near me. Everyone was happy. It was one huge celebration. It felt like all of us were there together with them. Everyone just wanted to have fun, sing along and have the best night of their lives and that’s exactly what it was for me.”
One concert goer added: “There’s something slightly unreal about Knebworth being 30 years ago…the crowd, that moment, that version of Oasis ..it feels like something that should exist in a photograph rather than in actual history…yet here we are, still talking about it& LIVING it.”
