Noel Gallagher Says Oasis Is Planning to Release a Live Album and Documentary Highlighting 1996 Knebworth Gigs

Despite having no plans to reunite anytime soon, the members of Oasis will treat fans to some new releases. Noel Gallagher recently revealed that the band is planning to release a live album and documentary next year. The album will feature cuts from the group's 1996 Knebworth House gigs, which some members of the band think were the high point of Oasis. There will be an accompanying documentary chronicling the concerts.

Gallagher spoke to the German magazine Event about the doc. The interview was translated by the Oasis fansite Stop Crying Your Heart Out, via Digital Spy.

"Just because it'll be the 20th anniversary of our Knebworth concerts in 2016," he said. "And because we're a bunch of nutters, we've completely forgotten that we had actually filmed the whole thing. With like 20 cameras and a lot of what happened on the festival ground as well. Like fans arriving, backstage sequences, interviews and flights over the area. Which we've never released. I've no idea why."

According to NME, guitarist Paul Arthurs said the gigs were so great that the band should have ended their relationship then. Gallagher also thought the shows were an important part of the band's history.

"We decided that 2016 would be a good moment to do so, since Knebworth was the highlight of our career," he added. "We think that the 20th would make a good occasion to reflect on that, or to tell the history of Oasis -- and then leave it at that. So far there's going to be a documentary and a live album."

Gallagher has addressed the possibility of the band getting back together, explaining that money would be the only reason for the group to reunite. He has also said that an Oasis reunion is not solely up to him. His brother, Liam Gallagher, along with the other members, would also have to be up for getting back together.

"It's not up to me. Who knows if Liam wants to do it? He probably does, but I don't know. It's not on my radar at all. I'm very happy with what I'm doing," he said.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will drop its second LP, Chasing Yesterday, in March.

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