Valletta’s open-air Pjazza Teatru Rjal will echo with glitchy beats and Slavic fairy-tale whispers next Friday when Baddie – the Warsaw-born art-pop phenomenon dubbed “the Polish Björk” – lands on the island for her long-awaited Malta debut. For a capital that has spent the winter debating cruise-ship caps and pavement licenses, the arrival of a…
**Glitter and Soviet nostalgia: Russia revives Eurovision rival contest** While Valletta’s Eurovision village was still buzzing from this year’s Liverpool spectacular, Moscow quietly dropped a glitter bomb of its own: the Intervision Song Contest is back, baby – and Malta’s vintage euro-philes are feeling all the feels. For anyone under 40, Intervision sounds like a…
**Bad Bunny Boycotts US Tour Over Immigration Fears – What Malta’s Latin Community Thinks** Reggaeton superstar Bad Bunny’s shock decision to skip the United States on his upcoming “Mundo Extraño” world tour has ricocheted through Malta’s tight-knit Latin American diaspora, with many islanders praising the Puerto Rican artist for choosing principle over profit. The 30-year-old…
Gorillaz’ 2026 World Tour Lands in Malta: Virtual Band, Real Impact on the Rock Sliema’s sunrise was still smearing peach across the cranes yesterday when Damon Albarn’s unmistakable drawl crackled through every wireless speaker on the promenade. “Malta, we’re coming,” the Gorillaz front-man declared in a 30-second video dropped at 7 a.m., confirming that the…
**Echoes Across the Med: How Jerusalem’s 800-Year-Old Organ Strikes a Chord in Malta** Valletta’s church bells had barely finished their Sunday cascade when the video landed in Maltese WhatsApp groups: a cedar-wood organ, silent since the Crusades, exhaling a chord that seemed to rise straight from the stone of Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre….
‘In love with all good music’ – the phrase sounds like a throw-away Instagram caption until you spend a Friday night in Strait Street and realise it is Valletta’s unofficial motto. From the brassy blast of a local fanfare marching into the City Gate to the sub-bass thump of a Gozo farmhouse rave, Malta’s love…
Rick Davies, the British keyboardist who co-founded the progressive-rock band Supertramp and co-wrote the global anthems “The Logical Song” and “Breakfast in America,” has died at 81. While the news broke on the band’s official website late Tuesday, it was felt keenly across the Mediterranean—especially in Malta, where Davies spent stretches of downtime and where…
**Appreciation: Rosanne Naudi – The Quiet Force Who Gave Valletta Its Voice Back** Valletta’s Republic Street at 7 a.m. is still more shadow than light, the limestone façades glowing amber as street-cleaners hose last night’s beer from the kerb. Yet for years the only human sound was the clack of cruise-ship heels racing for the…
On a sticky August night in Valletta, the bronze doors of the Manoel Theatre creak open and the crowd that spills onto Strait Street is humming the same chorus: “Għanja ta’ l-Arġent”, but not the 1970s original by Enzo Gusman. Tonight it’s Nadine Axisa’s stripped-down jazz trio version, slowed to a crawl, her voice brushing…
Leonardo Barilaro, affectionately dubbed ‘The Space Pianist’, has once again catapulted Malta’s name into the cosmos—this time with the premiere of his latest single “Stellar Tides”, released at 20:00 CET last night across all major streaming platforms. The piece, composed aboard a research vessel off Filfla and recorded in the historic Sacristy of the Mdina…
