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Oasis · S3 E7
Earls Court
Two sold-out nights at Earls Court, London. Oasis own the capital. The crowd knows every word before Liam sings it.
Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, November 4, 1995. Twenty thousand people are singing every word of every song before Liam even opens his mouth, and tomorrow night they'll do it all again.
Oasis, Let There Be Love (2005). Noel and Liam trading vocals, line by line, the way they did when everything was still working. Earls Court was the sound of two brothers sharing a stage and meaning it.
Let There Be Love, Oasis (2005)
The final track on Don't Believe the Truth, and one of the only Oasis songs where Noel and Liam genuinely share the vocal equally. Noel takes the verses, Liam takes the choruses, and the handoff between them feels like a conversation rather than a competition. The production is warm and open, full of acoustic guitars and a string arrangement that swells without overwhelming. Listen for the moment both voices overlap in the final chorus, the closest to peace these two brothers ever got on record.
Two Nights
November 4 and 5, 1995. Oasis sell out Earls Court in London for two consecutive nights, roughly 20,000 people per show. Morning Glory has been out for a month, and every person in the venue has already memorized every track. The shows are filmed for the concert video '...There and Then,' which captures the band at absolute peak confidence.
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setlist.fm
Oasis official Twitter, 2019
Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London
The vast exhibition hall in West London where Oasis played two sold-out nights in November 1995. The venue was demolished in 2014.
The Acoustic Set
Halfway through the show, the volume drops. Noel and Liam step forward for an acoustic run through Wonderwall, Cast No Shadow, and Morning Glory, stripped bare in front of twenty thousand people. It's the part of the set where the crowd sings louder than the band, and the part that proves these songs don't need the wall of noise to work.
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setlist.fm
TAP TO REVEAL: Who joined Oasis on stage at Earls Court for the finale?
The Peak
The setlist tells the story: 'Acquiesce' as the opener, 'Champagne Supernova' before the encore, an acoustic run through Wonderwall and Cast No Shadow in the middle. Oasis play 17 songs across nearly two hours, and the crowd is louder than the PA for most of it. Two years ago they were playing to thirty people at King Tut's. Now they're filling the biggest venue in London twice.
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setlist.fm
What was the Earls Court concert film called?
I Am the Walrus (Live), Oasis (1994)
The Beatles cover that became Oasis's signature live closer, captured here at the Glasgow Cathouse in 1994. This is the song that made Alan McGee sign them at King Tut's, and the song the Bootleg Beatles joined them for at Earls Court. It's the thread that runs through every Oasis live show: start with your own songs, end with Lennon's.
I Am the Walrus (Live), Oasis (1994)
'I am the eggman, they are the eggmen, I am the walrus.' Lennon wrote nonsense that sounded like prophecy. Oasis played it like a war cry. From King Tut's to Earls Court, this was always the last song of the night.
Earls Court 1995: The File
Oasis own London. Now they need to own the entire country. Next season: the Blur chart battle, the press frenzy, MTV Unplugged, and two nights at Knebworth in front of 250,000 people.
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Season 4: Knebworth
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