1D hit back at Kooks singer in Twitter row

One Direction have hit back at The Kooks frontman Luke Pritchard after he urged fans not to listen to their music.

[comment]One Direction didn't take kindly to Pritchard's views on their new disc.[/comment]

The 'Naive' singer began the row on Twitter when he slated their new album 'Midnight Memories'.

One Direction hunk Liam Payne responded by tweeting: "Sad thing is @lukekook we are/where (sic) fans of your band, nice one man verbally attacking your own fans how very rock and roll of you ;)."

@lukekook's deleted tweets about One Direction and fans!! via @5sos_Colorado pic.twitter.com/UCoJOefKK6

— freakywhoran (@freakywhoran) November 27, 2013

After the band's album release launch party, Luke posted: "Stop this malfunction. World realign please. Artists dying."

When a fan responded saying she liked both The Kooks and One Direction, the musician wasn't impressed.

He told her: "How can you be a fan of something that has no life? I honestly feel so depressed that you are into Kooks.

"I'd rather anyone who likes One Direction never follow me. You literally have no idea how upset I am."

He later backtracked and said he had been drinking and removed the tweets after facing a backlash from One Direction fans.

He then replied to Liam saying: "Man, I regret having a rant but the machinery of the industry pisses me off. I respect you do your thing.

"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."