Some Might Say:
Oasis at the 100 Club

From that momentous March evening to cameos in the crowd from the brothers Gallagher, the link between the lately reformed rock ‘n’ roll stars and our favourite 350 capacity club runs deep, with tons of late-night tales straddling the good, the bad and the ugly. 

Those who were there on the night 30 plus years ago speak of Oasis’ 25-minute set beneath the surface of Oxford Street with an almost impossible air of both veneration and indifference. For some it was mind-blowing – a Supersonic, sweat-soaked night that would change the trajectories of the faces in the crowd just as much as the lads on stage. Others simply remember a “racket”. 

Decades later, as Oasis make a long-awaited return to stages that are multiple magnitudes larger and less intimate than the 100 Club, they still divide opinion just the way they did in the early ‘90s. But that’s part and parcel of this broken band of brothers. Take away the simmering sibling rivalry, the constant piss-taking, the nasal drone of the less predictable Gallagher and the bitterness of his little-big brother, and what are you really left with? Just another Britpop band? No thanks.

Oasis have always been more than that. Made in the ‘90s but built to last, this is a band that’s been the soundtrack for three generations of disenfranchised British youth. Even when they weren’t playing happy families and amidst an influx of not-quite-biblical solo albums, we didn’t look back in anger. We rolled with it. We listened to Oasis, again.

Go back and check out that 100 Club set from the early days, and you’ll hear the same intangibly irresistible sound that’ll be filling arenas across the world in the summer of 2025. Liam nonchalantly telling the crowd to shut up, the suitably addictive (and definitely maybe derivative) strumming that kicks off Cigarettes & Alcohol, the uncontrollable clamour of a madferit crowd willing to crush itself just to get a little bit closer to the big man in the parka. Same as it ever was. The only thing that you won’t get these days is the delicate trill of Liam’s long-lost falsetto on Live Forever – we guess you had to be there.

These excerpts are taken from 100 Club Stories: a sacred text full of anecdotes and ephemera pertaining to our favourite local venue and the many, many legends who have graced its stage and dance floor alike. From Sex Pistols skirmishes to secret sets from Metallica and The Stones, this is a book dedicated to unforgettable nights spent at one of London’s most inconspicuous sites of subcultural heritage.
 
Oasis, live at the 100 Club, London. 24/04/1994
 
Bring It On Down
Digsy’s Dinner
Live Forever
I Will Believe
Cigarettes & Alcohol
Supersonic