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Missing chairs and Maltese songs
Last month, the 37th edition of the L-Għanja tal-Poplu festival came to a close at the University of Malta’s Sir Temi Zammit Hall, with the song Hawn Siġġu Nieqes clinching the top prize. Penned by Paul Ellul and Mark Spiteri Lucas and sung by...
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A first for Maltese rock
The night of May 9, 2013, will forever be etched in the chronicles of Maltese music, and with good reason too. On that night, for the first time ever, a Maltese band, namely Winter Moods, was selected to join hundreds of international artists whose...
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Desert rock, metal and the blues
It’s not quite clear what connection exists between Bud Spencer and metal music, but there he is, with his trademark fist ready for action, gracing the Facebook page for an event that promises to deliver some of the best metal the Maltese music...
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Footprints release Stick No Bills
Stick No Bills is the title of the new single from local Christian rock band Footprints. Written by Hilary Spiteri, the song was launched last week as part of the Stick No Bills campaign involving Aġenzija Sedqa and Aġenzija Żgħażagħ and the band...
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Loathe’s metal slaughter
After releasing debut album Despondent by Design in 2009, local metal act Loathe went through several changes, eventually resurfacing with its current line-up last year ahead of a new release that had been eagerly anticipated by the band’s legion of...
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The BMAT PRS Malta Top 20 Airplay Chart
1 The Person I am Ira Losco 2 Tomorrow Gianluca Bezzina Home The Crowns 4 Want You to Know Planet Seed 5 Flight 170 Chris and Moira 6 Daphne Lyndsay 7 Elizabeth, I No Snow/No Alps 8 Paul Red Electrick 9 Memory of a...
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Otello returns to the Astra
Otello, one of Giuseppe Verdi’s masterpieces, is Teatru Astra’s choice this year to kick off the next theatre season in October, as it opens the 12th edition of Festival Mediterranea, the programme of which is currently being finalised. This year...
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True oasis for the soul
Fresh back from a six-month gigging and song-writing tour of Europe and America, stopping off in Detroit, Dallas, Austin, London, Oslo, Sicily and Ireland en route, musician Martin McNeil is back on Mediterranean turf with a whole new set of gigs...
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Comic illustrator and writer Tim Perkins in Malta workshop
Award-winning comic illustrator and writer and Wizards Keep founder Tim Perkins will be giving a workshop focusing on comic creation. The workshop is being organised by Wicked Comics, the voluntary organisation behind the annual Malta Comic Con and...
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When love meets tragedy on stage
Federico Garcia Lorca’s Blood Wedding is one of the 20th-century’s outstanding poetic dramas, and should not be approached lightly by any stage director. It requires a strong infusion of stage poetry to complement the poetry of the text, and this, I...
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Second Bir Miftuħ concert
The second concert in the Bir Miftuħ International Music Festival series is set to put the spotlight on the Lucentum Horn Quartet, made up of Jose Garcia Gutierrez, Gabriel Garcia Gutierrez, Jose Chanza Soria and Alberto Garcia Izquierdo. The...
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Anton Calleja to give art lecture
Artist Anton Calleja will be giving a lecture about art, creativity and design, while focusing on his role as art teacher and discussing some of his own works and other art and design creations. Calleja is a self-taught painter who, in his early...
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Batera Duo in charity concert
The Batera Duo, Philip Attard on saxophone and Christine Zerafa on piano, will celebrate a decade in the history of the saxophone repertoire with a concert in aid of the University’s Research, Innovation and Development Trust. The concert is being...
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Auditions for the European Opera Centre
The European Opera Centre, the only cultural organisation of its kind in Europe and a designated Cultural Ambassador by the European Union, will be holding auditions for the first time in Malta. The European Opera Centre aims to offer a professional...
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An innovative way to view artworks
Over 60 works of art are displayed at the studio of Chris Briffa Architects, Valletta, representing the ongoing collaboration between ‘architect’ and ‘gallery’. The exhibition offers a new way of viewing artworks – in a living/working space instead...
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Editorial: Parking or no parking
Anything precious in this world comes at a substantial cost. Gold, diamonds, uranium, lovable wives, and so on and so forth. And they are precious because they are scarce. The same rule applies to parking. Parking has become such a scarce...
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Just what the doctor ordered
This was the first time I had been out and about in a European, friendly-sized Chevrolet, and this user-friendly, five-seat, five-door saloon provides the majority of family motorists with a complete package. So complete, that with Cruise Control...
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A revelation
Way back in 1968, I enjoyed a Fiat 500 twin-cylinder run-about. Marcel Loporto, who joined me on this run, also had a Fiat 500 years ago, and we were both more than interested in sampling the latest twin-cylinder Fiat. Truth to tell, we were both...
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A modern and stylish urban crossover
The 2008 is the latest expression of Peugeot’s renewed brand positioning and cements the company’s arrival within a highly competitive sector, pushing customers’ expectations to a new level. The car oozes desirability, with an athletic design,...
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Super savings at Debono Commercials
Debono Commercials strive to find new ways of rewarding Malta’s business community and this is very much reflected in this year’s new Super Savings campaign. In fact, clients purchasing the popular Hino 300 Series trucks, Toyota Hilux, Dyna and the...
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