Oasis Reunion Doc Skips Bonehead Cancer and Pricing Row — SkimNews
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- Oasis documentary "Don't Look Back In Anger," scripted by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight and directed by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace, premieres in cinemas September 9 as a portrait of the band's 2025 comeback tour.
- Liam Gallagher is shown giving up cigarettes and alcohol for the tour, with the reviewer calling his "newfound professionalism" the documentary's biggest revelation given his past antics.
- Noel and Liam Gallagher are depicted reconciling after 15 years of silence following their 2009 Paris backstage brawl, but the film never explains what was said, who instigated the rapprochement, or how it affected their family.
- The Cardiff reunion gig at Principality Stadium — the natural climactic moment — lands only about 40 minutes into the film, after which concert sequences in Dublin, Manchester, São Paulo, Tokyo and New York largely repeat the same arc.
- The documentary omits guitarist Bonehead's cancer diagnosis (which forced him to miss the tour's final leg), the dynamic pricing row that overshadowed the tour launch, and Liam's criticism of Noel for skipping Manchester Arena Bombing charity shows — omissions the reviewer flags as structurally telling.
- The film also works as a teaser for the band's much-rumoured return to Knebworth next summer, the reviewer writes, making it both a souvenir for 2025 attendees and a marketing artifact for what comes next.
Why it matters: For fans wanting the definitive reunion record, the documentary's curated framing — omitting Bonehead's cancer, the pricing controversy, and the brothers' Manchester Arena disagreement — means the official version of the Oasis story is celebration, not reckoning. The reviewer explicitly flags that what didn't make the cut is as revealing as what did.
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