BBC Two Plans Oasis Night With 2005 Manchester Concert

BBC Two has set aside Saturday 31 October 2026 for a full evening devoted to Oasis and their music. The channel opens the evening with a celebration of 1996 chart hits, the year that cemented Oasis as chart stars. It then airs a classic hometown concert from 2005, and it closes with a documentary from 1997.

The schedule gives fans three distinct views of the band. The first programme revisits the Britpop chart year that made Oasis famous.

The second programme shows the band as a full stadium act in Manchester. The third programme lets the brothers reflect on their rise in their own words.

What airs on BBC Two on 31 October

The night starts at 9.50pm with Top of the Pops: Biggest Hits 1996, a look back at the chart year. The programme revisits the singles and stars that shaped the chart year, from breakout pop acts to established Britpop bands. Oasis appear in that chart story, alongside the wider pop landscape of 1996.

Meanwhile, the headline concert follows at 10.50pm, and it puts a classic Manchester show at the centre of the evening. Oasis Live at Manchester City Stadium captures the band on home ground in Manchester during their 2005 world tour. The show came during the world tour for the album Don’t Believe the Truth.

For context, the concert matters because Manchester sits at the heart of the Oasis story. The band formed in the city, and the home crowd gives the show a special charge.

Still, the night does not end when the concert finishes, because a classic documentary follows after midnight. Oasis Right Here Right Now follows just past midnight, at 12.05am, as the final programme of the BBC Two evening. The BBC lists the documentary on the 31 October schedule page, under its late night section.

The 2005 Manchester concert in focus

The Manchester concert shows Oasis after a decade at the top, with a catalogue built across six studio albums. The band had already moved from small clubs to huge stadiums by 2005, and the Manchester show reflects that scale. The homecoming show lets them play a full set of hits to a crowd that knows every word.

For fans, the set spans the band catalogue and newer songs from Don’t Believe the Truth. Listings for the concert name Lyla and Live Forever among the songs on the night, alongside newer material from the 2005 album. The mix shows how the band balanced fresh material with the anthems fans expect.

Above all, the concert captures a band at ease on a huge stage. Liam and Noel Gallagher lead a show built for a stadium crowd, with the confidence of a band back on home ground. The performance reminds viewers why the reunion tours still draw such demand today.

Right Here Right Now returns from 1997

The closing documentary takes viewers back to the Britpop peak, when Oasis stood at the centre of British music. Right Here Right Now first aired in 1997, a year after the landmark Knebworth shows. It follows the band as they look back on a year that changed their lives.

Meanwhile, the film gives the brothers room to speak for themselves. Interviews with Liam and Noel sit beside live performances from the period, and the mix gives the film a direct, personal feel. The result feels closer to a diary than a standard music programme, because the brothers speak in their own words.

For context, 1996 gave Oasis their biggest stage yet. The band played two huge nights at Knebworth in August 1996, in front of enormous crowds at the height of Britpop. Our Knebworth guide covers that site and its place in the band story.

In short, the documentary works as a time capsule for new fans. It shows the band before fame hardened into routine, and before the long split that followed years later. It also shows why the songs still connect with crowds thirty years later.

Why the night matters before Live 27

Meanwhile, the BBC night lands at a useful moment for Oasis fans, with the next tour now less than a year away. The band return to the road next summer for the Live 27 tour, their second reunion run after the 2025 comeback. All 42 shows sold out in the September 2026 ballot, and no further dates will follow.

The tour opens at Celtic Park in Glasgow on 21 May 2027, with five nights at the Scottish stadium. It then runs through Manchester, Europe and the United States, before two nights at Slane Castle in Ireland. The run closes with six nights at Knebworth, and the final show lands on 26 September 2027.

For fans, the television night works as a warm-up for that run. The 2005 concert shows the stadium craft that the new tour must match, from the set shape to the crowd response. The 1997 film shows the hunger that started the whole story, when two brothers from Manchester took over British music.

Above all, the night also suits fans who missed out on tickets. The ballot left millions of fans without a seat for Live 27, because demand far exceeded the tickets on offer. A free evening on BBC Two gives those fans a shared Oasis moment at home.

Fans still hunting for tickets should use official resale only, at face value, through the Oasis tickets page. Unofficial sellers carry a real risk of cancelled tickets, and the band have warned fans about fake offers on social media.

Our Oasis documentary page tracks the reunion film in full, from its cinema run to its streaming release. The Live 27 setlist debate will run until the tour opens, and the Gallagher brothers page profiles the partnership at the heart of both programmes.

Noel Gallagher on stage. Photo: Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.