Mike's Minute: Coldplay kiss cam - it's none of our business

In a way it’s the sort of response you would have expected from Liam Gallagher. 

He's back on stage, and seemingly lapping it up, and asked about the love birds in the audience. 

He said "don't worry, we ain’t got any of that Coldplay snidey f***ing camera shit. Doesn’t matter to us who you are mingling with - or tingly with, fingingly with.” 

“None of our f***ing business". 

My gut says the majority of the audience, indeed the world, are with Liam, not Chris. 

This has been the biggest story in the world for two weeks now. It has crossed barriers, continents, and age groups in a way few stories do. 

It's that rare mix of mirth, horror, and carnage. 

Yes, it's funny. Yes, you can decipher the reaction, and how they reacted, and why they reacted, and how dumb the reaction might have been. 

But then in real life, jobs are lost, families and friends and relationships were upended. It's a level of personal upheaval we don’t, and won't, know about. 

There's a very real question, I would have thought, around morals and business. The business was very quick to publicly talk about standards. 

Now he might, as CEO, have had a clause in his contract about public activity or behaviour. But business and morals are a fantastically complicated area I would have steered well clear of. 

What about legal action? They have to sue. 

Yes, tickets and venues have warnings about CCTV and filming, but this wasn’t about crime or publicity. It went a mile beyond that. It blew up lives and it destroyed things. 

What about the mental consequences? How do two unknowns handle global fame, opprobrium, celebrity attention and notoriety all at once? 

Yes, it's easy to say, "well they shouldn’t have been there, should they?". What if they are in love, about to be married and starting afresh? As opposed to say, him being a shagger and this was his third fling this year. 

Lives are complicated and we have little, if any, business passing judgement. 

Or as Liam would say - it's none of our f***ing business. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
In a way. I've been thinking. It's the sort of
response you would have expected, don't you think. Liam Gallagher
back on stage and seemingly lapping it up on the
Oasis Touries in Manchester this week, he asked about the
love Birds and the audience and said, don't worry, we
ain't got any of that cold place, snidy efing camera
shit doesn't matter to us who you're mingling with, tingling with,
fingling with none of our effing business. Now, my gut

(00:22):
says the majority of the audience, indeed the world, are
on Liam's side, not Chris Martin's. This has been the
biggest story on the planet for a couple of weeks now.
It has crossed barriers, continents, age groups in a way
that few stories do. It's that rare mix of mirth
and horror and carnage. I mean, yes, it's funny. Yes,
you can decipher the reaction, how they reacted, why they reacted,
how dumb the reaction might have been. But then Whoop's

(00:43):
real life jobs, lost, families and friends and relationships up
ended eleven personal upheaval. We don't and won't know about
the very real question I would have thought around morals
and business. I mean the business. We're very quick to
publicly talk about standards. Now he might the bloke THEE
have a clause in his contract about public activity or behavior.
I don't know, But business and morals, jeez, that's fantastically

(01:06):
complicated area. I would have steered well clear off. What
about legal action. I would have thought they got a sue.
I mean, yes, tickets and venues have warnings about CCTV
and filming. But this wasn't about a crime or publicity.
It went a mile beyond that. It blew up lives,
It destroyed things. What about the mental consequences? How did
two unknowns handle global fame, opprobrium, celebrity, attention, notoriety, call

(01:30):
it whatever you want, all at once, and I mean, yes,
it's easy to say, of course it is. Well, they
shouldn't have been there, should they? What if they're in love,
about to be married? Start afresh, as opposed to say
him being a shagger and this is his third fling
this year. Lives are complicated, and we have little of
any business passing judgment, or as Liam would say, it's
none of our effing business. For more from the Mic

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