Oasis Morning Glory Tour: The 1995 to 1996 Imperial Phase
The tour behind (What's the Story) Morning Glory? took Oasis from clubs to Knebworth and Maine Road in 1995 to 1996, the band's commercial peak. How it compares to Live '27.
The Morning Glory tour was Oasis at their imperial peak. Running through 1995 and 1996 behind (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?, it carried the band from theatres and clubs to the biggest outdoor concerts Britain had seen, turning a rising guitar group into a national phenomenon in little more than a year.
The album’s singles, “Wonderwall”, “Don’t Look Back in Anger”, “Some Might Say” and “Champagne Supernova”, were inescapable, and the live shows grew to match. The campaign climaxed in the summer of 1996 with the Maine Road homecoming in Manchester and, above all, the two Knebworth nights, each played to around 125,000 people, when the band briefly stood at the absolute centre of British culture. It was the high-water mark not just of Oasis but of Britpop itself.
Thirty years on, Live ‘27 deliberately echoes that peak, returning to Knebworth for six nights and playing a huge multi-night run in Manchester. For the tour’s defining show see Oasis at Knebworth 1996, for the homecoming see Maine Road 1996, and for the 2027 return, the tour dates.