Newspaper report on Namie's concert cancellation in Singapore

This was the whole report that was published yesterday. Finally something is said about this.

I think is pretty long to read and know what exactly happened. Or shall I just summarised this:
- Namie's official web stated on 12 April that the cancellation was due to 'local technical reasons'.
- Midas [sg promoter] will refund the fans as soon as they get back the refunds from Japan side.
- Midas already spent US$300,000 and $250,000 in sg to booking, advertising & other costs.
- Japanese promoter On The Line is concerned over the slow tickets sales at less than half of 7000 tickets sold here.
- Midas is not obliged to fill up the building up but to sell as many tickets as they can.
- The cancelled concert caused Midas lost $600,000 already.
- Midas is supposed to make the 2nd payment of US$150,000 on April 5 but only able to make payment on April 16 because both sides were exploring options for this concert, such as to postpone the show to a later date, or change to smaller venue.
- To On The Line, the late payment was a breach of contract by Midas and therefore is cancelled. 
- Tickets that cost between $138 and $288 have about 2500 tickets sold out of 7000.
- According to the terms in the contract, any lawsuit will have to take place in Japan, so Japanese law will apply.
- Midas is also looking to sue Namie Amuro and Vision Factory in S'pore here for defamation.
- On The Line had not officially cancelled the concert on April 12 until Midas received the legal letter on April 18 that there is 'no possibility to hold the show'.

So most probably after the fight over the case, shall the fans be able to get their refunds, which will be months later. -_-  Why can't they refund the fans first since they are the innocent party in the first place. Not only there isn't a concert to watch, and yet can't get back the money.?? Depressing.


I hate to think wats gonna be in for Ayu. I have been hoping that one day Ayu will come to sg for concert, which most probably after Namie's one here. But since Namie has lead to this problem, I don't know what is there to hope for now. I don't even want to think. I guess the best way is still to go straight to Japan for their concerts. Hopefully I can really do that one day. I pity those fans who bought their flight tickets to come here and yet they didn't get to go for Namie's concert. (T ^ T)


Alright, so the thing left to see... :

The nicely done whole section Namie at hmv. But just a few Namie releases there. Ok, at least something to be happy about. I hope her CD/DVD sales here are good then.