Liam Gallagher criticises Noel over disabled music fan comments: “We’re not all c***s”

nme.com:

Liam Gallagher has apologised “on behalf of [his] family” after his brother Noel was criticised over comments he made about disabled festivalgoers.Following his recent set on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury, the High Flying Birds frontman stayed at Worthy Farm to see various gigs, including Jamie T‘s headline slot on the John Peel Stage.Noel later explained during an episode of The Matt Morgan Podcast that he and his friends ended up watching T’s performance from the tent’s disabled platform.“[We] couldn’t get to the bit on stage because we were fucking wasted,” he said.

Noel subsequently showed his artist pass and “walked on to this platform – unbeknownst to us it was the disabled platform”.“I said, ‘See that pass, mate?

It gets me any-fucking-where,” he continued, going on to joke that he would’ve tipped a disabled fan out of their wheelchair for his son to get a better view, and have touched disabled fans on the forehead, telling them: “Rise, you can walk.”Noel added: “I gotta say, those disabled cats have a great view of everything.”Following the comments, disability equality charity Scope hit out at Gallagher on Twitter: “Reports of Noel Gallagher’s behaviour at Glastonbury were upsetting enough.

But to hear him boast about his actions, and openly mock disabled people in the process, is beyond insulting.”They added: “Noel may belittle the experience of disabled music fans.