SG Cyprus General Manager Joel Jarry said in August, when news of the buyout first emerged: "With the exception of the change in ownership, there will be no other changes, with the management and operational functions firmly under the guidance of Paris, which will continue to have responsibility to set limits and control all other operational aspects.

The album is a musical adaptation of Ubu Roi, an 1896 play by Alfred Jarry, whose work influenced the Surrealist and Dada movements and later the Theater of the Absurd.

The dogs don't seem to get bored," the New York Post quoted Jarry as telling Britain's Daily Mail newspaper.