Oasis fan 'heartbroken' as they sell ticket following Liam Gallagher's post
One Oasis fan has been left "completely heartbroken" and has chosen to sell her ticket to the band's opening gig. The highly-anticipated reunion is set to kick off tonight on Friday, July 4 in Cardiff.
It comes following frontman Liam Gallagher 's now-deleted social media post, which contained an offensive phrase. Liam, 52, faced backlash after he used a racial slur on Twitter.
Social media users swiftly reacted to his post, with one fan hitting out at him: "Liam, you can't say that" following his use of a derogatory term typically aimed at mocking languages spoken in China or people from East Asia or of East Asian descent.
Liam removed the post and offered an apology, stating: "Sorry if I offended anyone with my tweet before it wasn't intentional you know I love you all and I do not discriminate. Peace and love LG x".
However it has led to disappointment among some fans, reports Wales Online. Yue Xiong, originally from Shanghai but now living in London, expressed that she had been a huge Oasis fan since she was 16, crediting their music with having "saved [her] life".
However, she deemed Liam's comment as "completely not acceptable". So much so, that the student has sold her ticket for Oasis' highly-anticipated comeback tour, Live '25.
On Thursday, the 23-year-old made plans to travel to Cardiff specifically to protest. "I've been I've been a huge fan since 2017," she confided to WalesOnline. "All of my adolescence I was just listening to Oasis – it got me through life and the music really saved my life.
"But I kind of stopped being a fan two days ago because what Liam said is completely not acceptable. As an Asian and as a Chinese person I could not deal with it just by keeping silent and accepting what he was saying."
She stated: "I just can't participate in that anymore. Otherwise it will be disrespectful for my own community where I come from."
Highlighting the silence around Liam's remarks, Yue remarked: "I felt people would need to speak up about it. So if no-one talks about it it just add more pressure to everything. But I felt the need to say something."
Yue condemned the racially charged statement made online, asserting: "It is not okay for someone to say something extremely racial, targeting an Asian community, on a social platform."
After the incident on Wednesday, she explained she sold her ticket as a form of protest just days before she had planned to attend the Cardiff gig.
Yue expressed a mixture of sadness at surrendering her ticket but admitted she would have been "completely heartbroken" if she went to the concert.
She acknowledged Liam's attempt to apologise but felt it fell short. "It was not sincere," she commented. "It was not really an apology. I see it more as a PR strategy but it's not even enough for a PR move because what he said was extremely controversial and when people pointed it out he said: 'Whatever'.
"He didn't see it as a problem. He then deleted that tweet. So he definitely feels it is not appropriate for him to say anything like that."
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