Oasis - Supersonic

What this video is

Released in April 1994, 'Supersonic' arrived in the immediate wake of Kurt Cobain's death and the perceived exhaustion of American grunge's cultural dominance, positioning Oasis and the nascent Britpop movement as a self-consciously British, working-class alternative. The video's rooftop setting, monochromatic palette, and unadorned performance format echoed the DIY ethos of the Manchester indie scene from which…

Why it matters

As Oasis's debut single and their first-ever music video, 'Supersonic' (1994) is a founding artefact of the Britpop era. Its deliberately spartan visual grammar — rooftop location, film-grain monochrome, rapid handheld editing — established a template for UK indie performance videos that…

The director

Mark Szaszy is a British music video director active in the early-to-mid 1990s UK independent music scene. He directed the original UK-version video for Oasis's debut single 'Supersonic' (1994), which was also the first music video the band ever shot. The…