It’s all happening for Oasis fans. Earlier this month, Liam and Noel Gallagher attended the London premiere of their new documentary, Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger, at Cineworld Leicester Square, while tickets for Oasis Live ’27 have gone on sale this weekend. Naturally, Oasis tributes continue to pop up across London and the UK. But before the stadium sell-outs, the band filmed the video for their 1994 debut single, “Supersonic”, on an unlikely rooftop opposite King’s Cross station.
Shot in early 1994, the black-and-white rooftop scenes were filmed atop Belgrove House, a now-demolished building opposite King’s Cross station. “Supersonic” was Oasis’s debut UK single, released months before Definitely Maybe—the 1994 album that launched the band’s rapid rise to Britpop stardom.
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A simple video with plenty of attitude
Noel Gallagher wrote “Supersonic,” and Oasis recorded it in Liverpool in a single day in December 1993. What began as a demo was good enough to become their first release, arriving in April 1994.
The video matches that fast, no-frills energy. Liam fixes the camera with his familiar glare while the band perform on a roof under the open sky. There are passing planes, grainy shots and very little gloss—but that is exactly the point. Oasis look confident, raw and as if they already know they are going somewhere.
Where in London was “Supersonic” filmed?
If you look behind the band on top of Belgrove House, you can spot parts of the King’s Cross area, including the station’s recognisable architecture and the Great Northern Hotel.
The building itself has since been demolished, and the area has been heavily redeveloped. The site is now connected with the Merck Building near Pancras Square, but the video still preserves a snapshot of King’s Cross before its transformation into today’s polished office, retail and residential district.
More than a rooftop performance
There is a clear Beatles echo in the idea of a band performing on a London roof. But Oasis were not on a glamorous West End building: they were above the traffic, rail lines and rougher edges of early-1990s King’s Cross. It gave the video a more everyday, street-level feel—perfect for a Manchester band arriving in London with big ambitions.
A different promotional video was later made for the American market, filmed in Southern California with desert scenery and the Cabazon Dinosaurs. But it is the King’s Cross rooftop version that remains the defining image of “Supersonic”: five young musicians, a grey London skyline and the start of something enormous.
