Liam Gallagher has responded to the news that thousands of genuine Oasis fans have had their tickets to see the band cancelled by mistake, as part of a crackdown on 'bots' and touts by ticket agency Ticketmaster. And it's fair to say that it's not the sort of sympathetic response that heartbroken fans were hoping to receive from their idol.
In the latest chapter in the on-going shambles involving ticketing for the band of the people's return, Ticketmaster made good on their promise to cancel tickets for the Manchester band's reunion that were acquired by bots, so that genuine fans would have the opportunity to buy them instead. However, this noble plan has resulted in thousands of fans who acquired their much-sought-after Oasis tickets by legitimate means have had their tickets cancelled too, and are understandably heartbroken. But if these fans were hoping that news of this injustice/fuck-up would cause Oasis frontman Gallagher to rally to their cause and offer his condolences, they were to be disappointed once again.
When a fan named Karen Kelly referenced the fiasco on X, asking Liam Gallagher "what do you think of the ticket situation? Thinking fans are bots and getting their money returned?", the singer's reply was blunt.
"I don’t make the rules," he responded, in the manner of petty killjoy 'jobsworths' the world over. "were [we're] trying to do the right thing it is what it is I’m the singer get of [off] my case."
