Music Interviews

Video link to yesterday’s ska launch: Baron Bubblebeef, Jennifer’s Dead

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Updated – as promised, the link to the video: “A mix of madness, Ian Dury and Judge Dredd… and it’s about necrophilia. But in a nice way.” How can you not be intrigued when you hear a single being described in this way? Meet Baron Bubblebeef – singer, man of mystery and evil genius extraordinaire. [...]

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Interview: The Shh

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Maybe you know them better as two-thirds of The Beangrowers but this new sound from Alison Galea and Ian Schranz promises to be as awesome as the two musicians’ reputation requires. Enjoy this interview in the run-up to their first gig in Malta tomorrow.   If you were in a somewhat whimsical state of mind, [...]

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Interview: Gideon & The Shark

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Event update: Unfortunately, Joe Gideon and The Shark have cancelled their Friday gig for personal reasons (details here ) but… we still get to party to The Shhh, The Clandestines and Skimmed. Ticket prices have been revised and those who already bought their tickets can contact Hairyamp to refund the difference. In the meantime, the [...]

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All the way from Milan – AIM

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Bringing their sophisticated and distorted sounds to the local scene are AIM, a Milanese band that will be performing at a number of venus this weekend.  It was back in 2003 that Marco Fiorello and the brothers Luca, Marco and Matteo Camisasca give birth to Aim. All with diverse band backgrounds, the four immediately set [...]

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Clandestines & Hey Sus! EP launch

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Hey Sus! & Clandestines are launching their split EP, Summer Camp for Pale Young Boys, this evening! Check out the interview – and get a taster of Clandestines’s music – on The Times of Malta online here. In the meantime, given it’s not everyday that a bunch of teens and tweens decide to launch an EP [...]

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Vote for Colourblind at the Hard Rock Rising competition

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  Colourblind are representing Malta in this year’s Hard Rock Rising awards and now is the chance for all music-lovers to show their support to this local band, so I took this opportunity to interview frontman Paul Sky. All photography is by Johann Debono. After an uber-hectic series of competitive rounds with other Maltese bands [...]

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Carrie Haber

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In between gigging at London’s hippest bars, the colourful singer spares fives minutes to tell me all about her music. The bubbly redhead has come a long way since she left our shores to pursue her dream in London. With THAT voice, that vibrant personality and the sheer love for life and music that she [...]

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Stolen Creep

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When Marie Borg Alden And Rebecca Theuma, twelve-year-old schoolgirl friends, got together to form a band they were only messing about. Initially, at least. Little did they think that in a few year’s time they’d meet up with the third band member – Katryna Storace – to start making some serious music under the name [...]

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Kantilena: The sound of contemporary folk

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Maltese folk is back in the spotlight, albeit with a twist as Kantilena are set to debut their latest singles this weekend. I met up with Sandro Lia, Drinu Camilleri and James Baldacchino, the brains behind the outfit. You could say that all three founding members of Kantilena have folk on their minds. Take violinist [...]

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Vidi Aquam interviewed

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It is rare that we get this particular genre of music performed live in Malta, particularly by a band that has already enjoyed considerable success on the niche festival market of post-punk and darkwave. The upcoming performance by Vidi Aquam – an Italian trio that is set to bring their distinctive sound to V-Gen next [...]

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