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Oasis - Don't Go Away

Music Video | USA | 1997
ArtistOasis
SongDon't Go Away
DirectorNigel Dick
Director of PhotographySimon Archer
EditorScott Richter
Art DirectorSteve Hudson
Year-Date1997-September(1997-August11,12)
IntroNo
OutroNo
Production CompanyDickfilms[df355](Phil Barnes)
Script/Written byNigel Dick
Set LocationLondon, Great Britain
Chertsey, Great Britain
Sound MixStereo
Technical Specificationscolour - format unknown
TelecineBrian Linse

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Synopsis

Oasis perform inside a strange, constantly shifting house where ordinary proportions no longer apply. The band members appear to grow and shrink as rooms, furniture, and musical instruments change scale around them. Liam Gallagher is repeatedly shown floating through the air beneath an umbrella, while the group plays amid surreal domestic scenes. The playful visual effects contrast with the song's anxious plea for someone close to stay, giving the video an unsettling, dreamlike quality despite its deliberately whimsical presentation.

Factoids & Trivia

  • The video was filmed over two days, August 11-12, 1997, in Chertsey and London.
  • Its central visual idea is the band changing size inside a house, creating forced-perspective and oversized-room effects rather than presenting a straightforward performance video.
  • The repeated images of Liam floating with an umbrella became the video's most recognizable visual gag.
  • "Don't Go Away" appeared on Oasis' 1997 album *Be Here Now*. Although it was not released as a conventional UK single, the song received an official video and was issued as a single in Japan in 1998.
  • Noel Gallagher described the song as being about the fear of losing someone close, which gives the video's surreal comedy a more vulnerable emotional context.
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