Filmmakers Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace secretly captured the first Oasis rehearsals in 15 years — and found the film’s emotional core in the crowd, not just the Gallagher brothers.
The first Oasis rehearsals in 15 years began with a hidden camera rig in a London studio. Filmmakers Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace wanted to capture Noel and Liam Gallagher before the media machinery around the reunion tour could settle in. “I don’t think Liam even realised there were cameras there for the first week,” Southern told Billboard.
That invisibility shaped the documentary Don’t Look Back In Anger, which Southern and Lovelace built from the rehearsals, every gig on the reunion tour, and the brothers’ first joint interview in over 20 years. But the film’s narrative turns on a different subject: the audience.
At the first Cardiff concert, Southern described a sequence where house lights revealed fans “looking shell-shocked, like they’ve been through every possible emotion.” He said that reaction became “a huge catalyst in where they end up in terms of their relationship by the end of the film.”
The directors had prepared for “any eventuality” — a reasonable precaution given how many expected the tour to erupt before its final date. Instead, the
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