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film · Friday 3 July 2026 · 7:00pm 
Supersonic - Screening at Nerve Centre
At Nerve Centre - Nerve Cinema · 7-8 Magazine Street, Derry, Co. Londonderry
At Nerve Centre - Nerve Cinema · 7-8 Magazine Street, Derry, Co. Londonderry
The Oasis documentary that stopped Gallagher brothers feuds dead in their tracks - for 122 minutes at least - returns to the big screen this summer at Nerve Centre Derry. Supersonic is the 2016 film by director Mat Whitecross that charts the early, white-knuckle rise of Manchester’s most combustible rock and roll band, from the backstreets of Burnage through to the 250,000-strong Knebworth shows of 1996. If you grew up with Definitely Maybe on repeat, or if you simply want to understand why Oasis still matter, this is the film to see.
Supersonic concentrates entirely on the band’s first four years - the formation, the signing, the fights, the drugs, the stratospheric ascent - and stops before the long slow decline. Director Whitecross had full co-operation from Liam and Noel Gallagher, and both are on screen throughout, talking candidly and often hilariously about events most bands would prefer to keep quiet. The archive footage is remarkable: their very first gig, the Glasgow night in 1993 when Alan McGee of Creation Records spotted them and signed them on the spot, and the raw early rehearsal footage that makes clear just how quickly the whole thing happened.
There are no outside voices delivering verdict. No music journalists explaining what it meant. Just the band, the footage, and the music - which lands differently when you hear it cut through concert speakers in a proper cinema room. The Nerve Centre Cinema is a compact, dedicated screening room with updated sound and seating, and the Nerve Cinema at Magazine Street is a genuinely good place to watch a music film loud.
This screening is part of the Nerve Centre’s Sizzling Summer of Films programme, which runs from June through to late September 2026.
Derry sits in the far north-west of Ireland, just over the border from Donegal. By road from Belfast it is roughly 1 hour 20 minutes on the A6; from Dublin allow around 2 hours 30 minutes via the M1 and A5. Translink operates regular bus and rail services from Belfast into Derry’s bus and rail station on Duke Street, which is a 10-minute walk from Magazine Street.
Nerve Centre is right in Derry city centre, close to the walled city and the Guildhall. Parking is available at the Foyleside Shopping Centre multi-storey nearby, or at Bishop Street car parks a short walk away. If you are coming from Donegal or the north-west, Derry is straightforward to reach via the N13/A2.
Magazine Street sits just outside the old city walls, and it takes less than five minutes to walk up and onto the walls themselves - one of the best-preserved sets of city walls in Europe. The Bogside murals, the Guildhall, and the Peace Bridge are all within easy reach on foot. There is more to see in Derry and across Co. Derry.
Heading to Nerve Centre - Nerve Cinema in Derry? Derry has plenty more to see. Read the Derry area guide, find what else is on, and explore the towns and villages nearby.