Suki Waterhouse has covered Oasis’ ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’ at Reading Festival 2025. Watch videos of the performance below.
The London-born singer was performing on the main stage this afternoon (Sunday August 24) when she explained: “I came back to London and had to go and see Oasis. It was the best fucking show.” She then asked: “Shall we do an Oasis cover?”
The crowd roared when her band started up the opening strains of the classic anthem, with fans swaying their arms and singing along.
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Earlier in the set, the 33-year-old, who was wearing a Hole T-shirt, exclaimed: “Reading Festival, you guys are looking so good! You’re looking so good, you should be saying, ‘Oh my God!’”
At one point, she asked, “Who wants to be Johanna?”, a reference to her dreamy 2019 track ‘Johanna’, which features the lyric: “Johanna, Johanna / Only want her ’cause I can’t have her.”
She then invited onstage a fan wearing a T-shirt that read: “I heart Suki.” After duetting on the track, the pair hugged before the fan staggered offstage, looking overwhelmed and happy.
“This is a festival I always came to and dreamt of playing,” Waterhouse told the crowd, remembering that the summer, post-exams, was always “a great time to get really black-out drunk.” The crowd cheered, recognising this as a lyric from ‘Blackout Drunk’, a track from her 2024 album ‘Memoir of Sparklemuffin’, which she duly performed.
She described ‘My Fun’, which also appeared on that album, as her “favourite part of the show”.
Waterhouse and her band followed their cover of ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’ with ‘Moves’, one of her most popular songs. When the audience sang along, they almost matched their performance of the Oasis track (although after ‘Moves’, one lad near NME jokingly sang the famous bit from ‘Wonderwall’: “I said maybeeeeee….”).
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Last year, Waterhouse spoke to NME about ‘Memoir of Sparklemuffin’, which she said was partly inspired by autobiographical prose: “I’m a memoir gobbler of people’s real-life stories, and I think it’s such a gift when you get to read one. “I’ve been reading Liz Phair’s book Horror Stories. I love the Jane Fonda documentary. I love reading people’s old diaries. When you’re actually allowed that glimpse into someone’s soul and their story, it’s my favourite thing ever – it’s the most inspiring thing to me.”
She added: “Songwriting is a great benchmark for you to look back on your own experiences – in a song, you’ve always written what’s true to you in that momen. So a song you wrote five or six years ago was true to you then, and that shifts as time goes by, and it can give you this really interesting palette of experiences.
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