Liam Payne, of One Direction fame, has hit out at The Kooks' frontman Luke Pritchard after the indie rocker posted a series of tweets that belittled the pop group for having "no life". 

When asked by one of his followers about his opinion on 1D and what he has against the band, Pritchard told them: "Everything. How can you be a fan of something that has no life? I honestly feel so depressed you are into Kooks." He then rather dramatically added: "I'd rather anyone who likes One Direction never follow me. You literally have no idea how upset I am."

Upon seeing the messages (pictured below), Payne reached out to the star through his official Twitter page this evening (November 27) and slammed Pritchard for making negative remarks about his boyband: "Sad thing is @lukekook we are/where fans of your band, nice one man verbally attacking your own fans how very rock and roll of you ;)"

The 'Naïve' rocker then returned to the social networking site and added: "This whole thing now has gone too far. Gonna say I have my opinions but meant no offence, that's why I took down them there tweets. Love. @Real_Liam_Payne man, I regret having a rant but the machinery of the industry pisses me off. I respect you do your thing."

Watch One Direction's music video for 'Story Of My Life' here: