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Posted by Casper at May 12, 2004 04:48 PMIn the list of pop stars you'd expect to go slightly nuts, David Cassidy would seem an unlikely figure. Even so, he managed to pull off the trick of pissing off the Welsh while playing a gig at Cardiff International Arena. It's not bad enough that he demanded total silence during one song, or stopped playing 'I Think I Love You' because - horror of horrors, fans were singing along - but he also took the piss out the Welsh accent and observed that he didn't know how people could live in Wales "without slitting your wrists." The official line is that "the weather was getting to him and he was exhausted" - so, apparently, if David Cassidy gets caught in the rain he turns into a pompous prick.
I note that you have become aware of an article published recently concerning David Cassidy and comments he is alleged to have made during his concert in Cardiff, Wales on Saturday 8th May.
All the fuss is about an article printed in the most sleazy of the British Tabloid press … a nasty little rag called “The Sun”.
To put this in perspective in the UK to call someone a “Sun Reader” means they are stupid, ignorant and gullible. In my opinion the Sun is not fit to be used to toilet train a puppy!
This was the article
Tuesday, May 11,
Cassidy in Welsh fan blast
SEVENTIES heart-throb David Cassidy insulted Welsh fans at a concert by saying: “I don’t know how you live here without slitting your wrists.”
The 54-year-old singer also demanded SILENCE during one song and RIDICULED the Welsh accent.
When fans shouted, ‘We love you’ he snapped: “I can’t listen to you and think and sing.”
Cassidy was on his last-ever British tour at half-empty Cardiff International Arena.
Caroline Tems, 46, said: “He talked about the weather getting worse. Then he said, ‘I don’t know how you live here without slitting your wrists’.
“Some women shouted and he kept saying, ‘What the hell did you say? I can’t understand you’.”
The ex-Partridge Family star stopped playing I Think I Love You because people sang along.
A spokeswoman for Cassidy said: “The weather was getting to him and he was exhausted.”
The person who wrote this deserves a real rollicking; statements are taken out of context and completely warped and there are downright lies!
I was fortunate enough to attend 7 of David's 12 concerts, including the final concert at Cardiff.
Firstly David’s comments about slitting wrists were about the awful weather (remember that David has spent most of his life living in LA, California: Las Vegas, Nevada and Fort Lauderdale, Florida). Like many of the audience David had just made the ride along the M4 through driving rain and under heavy clouds.
With his usual dry sense of humour he commented on and how the weather depresses him so much that he can't imagine how we are not suicidal and slitting our wrists! His keyboards player Rob (who comes from Hull but now lives in the States) joined in the joke by showing the audience his wrists.
The comments when members of the audience shouting out we've heard at every concert ... David comments that he cannot make out what is the hecklers are saying; he has made much the same comment at the one Scottish concert and the 10 English concerts; there was not any reference at all to the Welsh accent.
I find it difficult to imagine how anyone with half a brain cell could have inferred any sort of Racism.
This statement in the paper was, in actual fact, a complete fabrication designed to stir up totally untrue and unnecessary controversy.
Regarding David's request for the audience to be quiet. At every concert, including Cardiff, David has commented on the wonderful voices of the audience singing along to all the well-known classics.... as well as the less known songs. Over the years David has re-arranged many of his old Partridge Family and solo releases and this time he wanted to sing his "signature tune" I Think I Love You in a particularly slow and soulful arrangement.
This, however, presents a problem because the audience are used to a much faster version.
Throughout the tour David has attempted to sing the slow version to the accompaniment of just himself on acoustic guitar; unfortunately in the 12 concerts he has only managed to do this three times.
Obviously this is disappointing both for many fans and for David himself; I suspect that performing the full song in the final concert was a little more important to him than in any except the previous night when the show was filmed. and he really wanted to finish the slow version of ITILY.
Finally the assertion that the Cardiff International Arena (CIA) was half-empty is simply untrue.
I was on the front row and during the short break turned and looked at the audience ... yes there was the odd empty seat but the CIA was certainly substantially more than "half-full"; I would suspect that for a journalist to check this would be very easy.... just phone the CIA and ask! I would guess at something over 85% full.
It is regrettable that the old saying about "never letting the facts get in the way of a good story" is still the guiding principle of The Sun newspaper!
Julie Parton
Hi There,
Thank-you for allowing any of us David Cassidy's fans to read the truth about what really happened that evening, much appreciated.
Cheers:
A Fan from Australia Sydney..
I was at Davids concert at Cardiff International Arena i could not believe the reports i read as i live in wales i can quite understand him wanting to slit his wrists the weather here is awful i also have the intelligence and sense of humour to realise he was joking . He was fantastic and from were i was sitting the place looked packed so i dont understand where the half full thing came from .
Posted by: Loraine Jones at September 20, 2004 04:11 PMi think we aughta give David Cassidy a break, the guy has been accused of bieng one of those snooty celebrity arseholes ever since he joined the partridge family and became the breakthrough star on that, i think its just out of pure jealousy that people say these things. some 40 something man whos pissed off that his wife still fancies david Cassidy and who wishes he could be the same. the guy has a great singing talent and dosent deserve to be beaten down like this.
Posted by: kayleigh collins at November 9, 2004 01:40 PMI HAVE BEEN A FAN OF DAVIDS FOR 32 YEARS AND I THINK THE PRESS ARE PROBABLY JEALOUS OF THE FACT THAT HE IS STILL SO POPULAR AFTER ALL THESE YEARS.
Posted by: Mandy Razzell at December 22, 2004 10:18 AM