For historic context, the event took location just following Euro 96 and on the cusp of New Labour’s election victory. Following “decades of bleakness”, as Noel places it, Britain – boasting Oasis, Kate Moss, Damien Hirst and Trainspotting- was once all over again awesome. Oasis them selves hadn’t yet been compensated in total for their finest-marketing next album, he mentioned, and so Knebworth marked the past time they were being at any time remotely shut to their adoring admirers once more in conditions of way of living and prosperity.
