Accusations fly over Andre fiasco

By Andrew Adamides

PETER Andre’s management may not even bother suing local promotions company Seif after the company issued advertisements blaming them for the singer’s concert cancellation, as they feel Seif has discredited itself by its own actions.

Speaking to the Cyprus Mail yesterday, the singer’s agent Paul Fitzgerald said Seif’s credibility had been “blown out of the water” by their actions, and it may therefore not even be worth taking legal action over the advert’s claims.

The advert, which appeared in the local press yesterday, accuses Fitzgerald of being “unprofessional”, and says he “misrepresented” himself as Andre’s agent.

It also says Seif has grounds for taking legal action against Fitzgerald’s company Concorde.

Fitzgerald said his management company, Concorde International Artistes Ltd, had been in operation for 18 years, representing acts such as Boyzone and The Prodigy, and had never been questioned in this manner before.

The Andre concert, scheduled for last night, was cancelled after it was discovered that the Eleftheria stadium venue was already booked for a basketball game, and that there were alleged irregularities in the payment schedule on Seif’s behalf. The concert had already previously been postponed and Andre’s management was unwilling to sanction the change of venue offered by Seif for the concert to go ahead.

Last week, Andre gave an interview on Limassol’s Sky FM radio station, in which he said Seif were squarely to blame for the debacle. But he added he would love to perform in Cyprus once a reputable promoter was found.

Fitzgerald said a decision would probably be taken about legal action on Monday.

Seif were unavailable for comment yesterday.

The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.