Supernova Heights: The Story of Noel Gallagher’s Famous Oasis House

For Oasis fans, Supernova Heights is one of the most famous houses in British music history. Located on Steele’s Road in Belsize Park, North London, the former home of Noel Gallagher became synonymous with Oasis, Britpop and the excess of the 1990s.

At the height of Oasis’s fame, Supernova Heights was far more than Noel Gallagher’s London home. It became a notorious gathering place for musicians, celebrities and figures from the so-called Primrose Hill set, earning a reputation for parties that seemed to continue around the clock.

The house is also the inspiration behind our name, Supernova Heights Collectibles & Memorabilia. As a store dedicated to collectibles, memorabilia and pieces of popular culture, we wanted a name with its own story — and Supernova Heights represents an unforgettable period in British music and cultural history.

What Is Supernova Heights?

Supernova Heights is the name associated with Noel Gallagher’s former home on Steele’s Road in Belsize Park, North London.

Gallagher bought the property in 1997, when Oasis were arguably the biggest band in Britain. Definitely Maybe and (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? had transformed the Manchester band into global stars, while their enormous Knebworth concerts in 1996 had demonstrated just how big Oasis had become.

Noel moved into the house with his then-wife, Meg Mathews, and it soon became one of the best-known celebrity homes of the Britpop era.

The name Supernova Heights was inspired by Oasis’s epic closing track “Champagne Supernova” from (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?.

It was an appropriate name for a house that would become almost as famous for its parties as its owner was for his music.

Where Is Supernova Heights?

Supernova Heights is on Steele’s Road in Belsize Park, an affluent part of North London close to Primrose Hill.

During the 1990s, this corner of London became closely associated with a group of musicians, actors, models and other celebrities who were collectively dubbed the Primrose Hill set by the British press.

Noel Gallagher and Meg Mathews were right at the centre of that world.

Oasis fans regularly gathered outside Supernova Heights, while paparazzi photographers became a familiar sight around the property. Behind the front door, meanwhile, some of the most notorious parties of the era were taking place.

Noel Gallagher and Supernova Heights

Noel Gallagher owned Supernova Heights for only around two and a half years, but that relatively short period was enough to make the house part of Oasis folklore.

By the time Noel moved there, Oasis had already achieved extraordinary success.

Rather than being the place where early songs such as “Live Forever” or “Wonderwall” were created, Supernova Heights belongs to a different chapter of the Oasis story: what happened after the band became enormously famous.

It represents the moment when the Gallagher brothers and Oasis went from successful musicians to genuine cultural phenomena.

Noel and Meg's home became one of the places where the worlds of Britpop, fashion, film and celebrity collided.

The Legendary Supernova Heights Parties

If there is one thing Supernova Heights became famous for, it was the parties.

The house developed a reputation for an almost permanent open-door atmosphere, with people seemingly coming and going at all hours.

Noel has subsequently spoken about the extraordinary lifestyle surrounding the house and the constant stream of people who passed through it. On occasions, he apparently didn't even know everyone who was in his own home.

Kate Moss was among the famous faces associated with Supernova Heights and reportedly stayed there for a period. Actors, musicians, models and other members of London's celebrity scene were frequent visitors.

The stories became part of the mythology surrounding both the house and the wider Britpop era.

For neighbours, however, having one of Britain's biggest rock stars living nearby wasn't necessarily quite as exciting.

The house attracted fans, photographers and late-night visitors, helping turn an otherwise residential North London street into an unlikely landmark of British rock 'n' roll history.

Liam Gallagher and Supernova Heights

Liam Gallagher was inevitably part of the Supernova Heights story, although the house was Noel and Meg's home rather than a house shared by the Gallagher brothers.

Liam was living nearby in the Primrose Hill area with Patsy Kensit during this period and was among the visitors to his brother's house.

Stories involving Liam, Noel and the people surrounding Oasis inevitably contributed to the legend of Supernova Heights, but the house is principally associated with Noel's life in London during the extraordinary period that followed Oasis's rise to fame.

The famously volatile relationship between Noel and Liam would continue to provide headlines for years afterwards, eventually culminating in Noel leaving Oasis in 2009.

By then, however, the Supernova Heights chapter had been over for almost a decade.

When Did Noel Gallagher Leave Supernova Heights?

By the end of the 1990s, Noel Gallagher's lifestyle was beginning to change.

The endless parties and excess that had characterised the height of Britpop were becoming increasingly unsustainable. Noel has since spoken openly about giving up drugs and moving away from that period of his life.

In 1999, he left Supernova Heights and moved away from London.

The move effectively brought one of the most colourful chapters in the story of Oasis to an end.

Supernova Heights had been Noel Gallagher's home for only a few years, but those years coincided with such an extraordinary period in British music that the house had already secured its place in rock 'n' roll history.

What Happened to Supernova Heights?

The story of the house didn't end when Noel Gallagher moved out.

Supernova Heights subsequently changed hands and was later owned by comedian and writer David Walliams, who carried out extensive work on the property.

Despite the changes that have taken place over the years, its association with Noel Gallagher and Oasis has endured.

For music fans walking through Belsize Park today, Supernova Heights remains one of those unusual places where an otherwise ordinary London street intersects with pop-cultural history.

There are bigger music landmarks in Britain, but few private homes are so closely associated with the atmosphere of an entire era.

Why Is Supernova Heights Famous?

Supernova Heights matters because of what it came to represent.

It wasn't where Oasis began. It wasn't where Definitely Maybe was recorded, and it wasn't responsible for the songs that made the band famous.

Instead, Supernova Heights represents what happened when Oasis reached the top.

The parties, paparazzi, famous visitors and excess surrounding the house captured something about Britain in the second half of the 1990s.

Britpop had moved beyond music and become part of mainstream culture. Bands such as Oasis were dominating newspapers and magazines as well as the charts, while musicians, actors, artists, designers and models increasingly occupied the same celebrity world.

For a brief period, Supernova Heights sat right in the middle of it.

Why We Chose the Name Supernova Heights

That history is exactly why we chose Supernova Heights as the name of our collectibles and memorabilia store.

Collecting is about more than simply owning an object. The best pieces of memorabilia have a story attached to them. They can take you back to a particular film, album, sporting moment, artist or period in popular culture.

Supernova Heights has that same quality.

To anyone unfamiliar with its history, it's simply the name of a house in North London. To an Oasis fan, however, those two words immediately evoke Noel Gallagher, Britpop, the 1990s and one of the wildest periods in modern British music.

Supernova Heights Collectibles & Memorabilia takes its name from that piece of cultural history.

Our store isn't connected to Noel Gallagher, Oasis or the property itself. We're simply collectors and fans of popular culture who thought there could hardly be a better name for a place dedicated to preserving pieces of it.

Supernova Heights: A Piece of Britpop History

More than a quarter of a century after Noel Gallagher left Steele's Road, people are still interested in Supernova Heights.

That's quite remarkable when you think about it.

It is, after all, a house.

But for a few extraordinary years in the 1990s, it became one of the addresses at the centre of British popular culture.

Oasis were conquering the world, Britpop was at its peak and London was experiencing a period of music, fashion and celebrity culture that continues to fascinate people today.

Supernova Heights became part of that story.

And that's why, when we were looking for a name for a store dedicated to collectibles, memorabilia and pieces of popular culture, we couldn't think of a more fitting one.

Welcome to Supernova Heights.