Oh yes!


Hammerstein Ballroom,New York '98

Can’t pick one. Too many contenders all for different reasons.

I’ll go with Maine Road. But GMEX is also highly valued. And are others. Again, for differing reasons.

I feel like the this is such a casual list. I've been getting into trawling through Oasis gigs and am wondering how on earth has no one mentioned Sheffield Arena in 1995 yet?

It has so many things going for it:
1) A fantastic setlist - made up of the best of the usual suspects of Definitely Maybe along with some really nice rare b side choices in (It's Good) To Be Free and Take Me Away and the entirety of the Some Might Say single. It also features a cool transition from Cigarettes & Alcohol into Married With Children.

2) Significance - it is the last gig Tony played with the band, the band's first arena show and (most importantly) the first time Don't Look Back in Anger is revealed to the public.

3) Liam's Performance - it is quite possibly his best vocal perforamnce with the signature vocal style he developed (post early 1994). He's going for all the high notes in the songs, and hits them with good grit and intensity without without cracking once. Rock 'n' Roll Star, Columbia and Slide Away in particular are incendiary performances and among the best I have ever heard. He's also clearly having a lot of fun, engaging with the crowd and making an active effort to get the crowd involved. This is something that seemed to disappear after the Knebworth shows, he got a bit lazy as a frontman.

I see a lot of people mentioning Live By the Sea but, this Sheffield gig is basically the superior version. Much like with Roskilde and Glastonbury later in the year, the better recorded gig, overshadows the better performed gig.
This gig deserves a lot more recognition.

Manchester Apollo 2001 (10YN&C)

Although, correcting myself, Roll With It was better in Manchester