Oasis - Go Let It Out

FEB 07 2000 · 12:00

Oasis - Go Let It Out (2000) Director: Nick Egan Era: Post-Britpop Transition (2000) - Oasis pivoting from peak Britpop dominance toward psychedelic rock experimentation at the dawn of the new millennium, marking a lineup change era and independent label debut on Big Brother Recordings. High curatorial value as a transitional artifact bridging the Britpop era and the early 2000s British rock landscape. The video is simultaneously a performance document, a band-history record (capturing an unprecedented lineup configuration), and a stylistic statement by a director with deep roots in British punk visual culture. The dark, high-contrast, warm aesthetic captured in the quantitative metrics directly mirrors the cultural mood of a band in flux. Its later inclusion in the 'Time Flies... 1994-2009' retrospective confirms its canonical status within the Oasis catalogue. Context: Released on 7 February 2000, 'Go Let It Out' arrived as Oasis navigated a significant identity crisis following the simultaneous departures of founding members Bonehead and Guigsy in August 1999. It was the band's debut release on their own Big Brother Recordings label, severing ties with Creation Records, and served as the lead single from 'Standing on the Shoulder of Giants'. The track marked a sonic pivot toward psychedelic rock - sampling Johnny Jenkins' version of 'I Walk on Gilded Splinters' - at a moment when Britpop as a cultural movement had already peaked and fragmented. The reshuffle visible in the video (Noel on bass, Gem Archer on guitar, Liam on rhythm guitar) encoded the band's transitional instability directly into its visual presentation, making the video itself a document of rupture and reinvention in one of British rock's most prominent acts. Director notes: The video for 'Go Let It Out' was filmed on location in Surrey, England in November 1999, released 7 February 2000. It presents a notable documentary challenge: due to the mid-sessions departure of founding members Bonehead and Guigsy, the band lineup visible in the video does not match the studio recording lineup. The video features the reshuffled band with Gem Archer taking Noel's lead guitar role and Liam miming rhythm guitar, while Noel plays bass - a role swap documented across Wikipedia, IMDB, and Grokipedia. The video was later edited into the Oasis compilation film 'Time Flies... 1994-2009' (2010). Egan also directed the earlier Oasis video 'Supersonic', establishing a working relationship with the band predating this production.