Accompanying the single For Strings Inn also released their first music video, directed and produced by Nick Morales and No Sweat Productions.  The music video is available online and will be featured on local TV stations this month.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUZldfBlPvw

Genre – Classic/Hard Rock

On 29 December 2009, Ryan Aguis and Mark Micallef together with Luke Aguis (former member) formed the band which was formerly known as Dynamite. Neville Mallia (former member) was recruited by Luke Aguis on bass and Kersten Graham was recruited by Mark Micallef on lead guitar

on June 2010. A number of vocalists were assigned to the post but none, with all due respect, were fit for the job in the eyes of the musicians. In December 2010 Dynamite won the JC Battle of the Bands and a month later Luke Aguis and Neville Mallia left the band for personal reasons.

After weeks of auditions the band recruited Gary Bugeja and Matthew Vella on vocals and bass respectively they were official members on the 1st of April of 2011. The band decided that new members new start so the band was renamed to Negative Spaces. The band is currently working on singles with well known producer Nicky Gravino and is scheduling gigs for thier new prospects and goals.

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The Farsons Great Beer Festival was held for the first time in 1981 at Argotti Gardens in Floriana with subsequent editions held in Tigne in Sliema and at Ta’ Xbiex Marina. The festival has been held at Ta’ Qali Park for the last ten years, where it has grown into the largest summer festival on the island and has become one of the main events in the summer calendar with a great festival atmosphere.

The Farsons Great Beer Festival is enjoyed by people of all ages, and the open-air entertainment caters for everyone, young and old, making it a great family outing or night out with friends. Malta’s established artists and bands perform on two stages every night. The festival is also known to be a starting platform for many up-and-coming bands and artists who are given the opportunity to perform to a large audience.

In fact, for the first time ever, this year, due to the numerous enquiries received from new bands and artists to perform in the festival, it was decided to collect all applicants and give them the opportunity to participate in an event to showcase their talent.  Rock the Fest, a music competition organised in collaboration with Vodafone and Hard Rock Café, was held at Hard Rock Café in Baystreet throughout June and ended last week. Two winning bands, and a surprise third band, judged by local music professionals as well as public votes, have been given the opportunity to perform on the Rock Stage during the festival. The winning bands were Bridget Bone, 12th Ode and Plan Zero who will be performing on Friday the 22nd of July, Tuesday the 26th of July and Friday the 29th of July respectively.

… and this is the original version of Never Go Away.

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Francesca is a 19 music artist from Malta who was involved in music from a very young age. She played piano as a child and also started ballet at the age of 2. Francesca Galea was brought up listening to classical music and was initially classically trained as a singer who later fell in love with 90′s pop, She later began to sing more modern songs and started to sing at festivals. At the age of 15 Francesca was part of a girl group until the age of 16, when things didn’t work out and was the time she went solo.

Francesca collaborated with Muxu to produce her first release called “stilettos” in 2010. Shortly afterwards, she collaborated also with Jo Micali and U-Bahn for a summery trance tune. These both did very well on radio stations and the 2nd release “making you mine” was even nominated for a Malta Music Award.

Francesca moved to the UK to study at the ACM to further her career and Since then she have collaborated with many producers, writers and artists such as Xenia Ghali (Ministry Of Sound) (for tunes such as “Concession”, “What you Got” & “Insanity”) and Code Red Records who will be releasing Francesca’s summer single called “I never meant”.

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He has supported established artists such as “Ja Rule” and “Flo Rida”. Currently Dimal is working on his EP Mista International which will be supported by DJ Kris-Stylez from Black Wall Street and will be released September/October 2011.

A former winner of Best Hip Hop & R/B Artist in the Malta Music Awards, Dimal  just released a brand new single Summer club banger for party people called “HELL YEAH” which you can find here!

Stefan Galea is a Maltese teen electro pop/ Rnb artist from the sunny island of Malta. He is currently gaining lot’s of success on the island and internationally.
He has only released two singles to date, but the future is looking bright for Stefan for at his young age he has managed to have two number 1 singles in Malta. His debut single “Take It Or Leave It” written by British songwriter/producer Richard Rogers and lyrics by Elizabeth Galea, managed to get the number 1 spot in the Reverb Chart and stayed their for 8 weeks, To continue on that note he also worked with talented songwriter James Forrest (Glasgow U.K.) from Supa Sonic Music who pitched his track “Shotgun Lover” to Stefan in collaboration with rapper DIMAL. The track also reached the number 1 spot and continued to gain and enjoy more radio airplay and TV performances.

Stefan got big exposure as soon as he debuted at The Malta Junior Eurovision Festival 2009 stage with his trribal up tempo track “Shake Up Wake Up” a song about teens living their dreams, which got a very good considerable number of hits on You Tube. After Stefan was discovered by Aiming 4 Fame founder Madeleine Dargue, an organisation which develops artists in collaboration with ICAD International so as to get the right songs, right image, and vocal abilities, as well as finding gigs and opportunities for the artist.

He is currently working on new tracks and is looking to release his debut album “My Evolution”. Another achievement gained is when he got nominated for The Peoples Music Awards as Best Male Solo Artist and Best Dance Electronica Artist. Stefan also supported top acts performing at their concerts/gigs including the UK’s top pop girl duo “The Cheeky Girls” and Malta’s rock jewel chick Ira Losco. Stefan also forms part of The HSBC Joseph Calleja Choir.

Meanwhile Stefan’s big break arrived when his promo single “Shotgun Lover” ft. DIMAL (James Forrest UK) was chosen for the first time ever to be featured on the Malta to Midem CD, the track was distributed to all CEO’s of major record labels, MTV, and gaming producers at the Worlds largest music industry trade fair MIDEM in Cannes, France. 10 days later Stefan was contacted by New York City Label Dramatico who worked with the likes of Katie Melua. He is currently working on two of the labels tracks which made Stefan get more local press/media attention from newspapers/tabloids, magazine features, interviews, and TV, etc.

At his young age Stefan participated in various festivals and won, while also performing on various TV shows, and recently he made it to the semi finals of The ISC International Songwriting Competition 2010 (USA) beating thousands of applicants judged by various music industry movers and shakers including Kings Of Leon, Rihanna, Robbie Williams, people from VH1 and MTV also people form Walt Disney Records, Sony and various labels. Stefan also placed second in You Tube’s Got Talent 2010, while also having the opportunity to study for 7 years at The Masquerade Theater arts school which consists of Drama, Music & Dancing, which led Stefan to get a role in a Maltese movie “Qatt M’ Hu Tard” directed by Elio Lombardi. While also performing in front of Italian Ambasador Onor. Andrea Trabalza in 2008.

Stefan is working with top international established songwriters from the UK, US, and Australia, and Europe who have worked with the likes of Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus and many more thanks to Aiming 4 Fame (Madeleine Dargue) and Ms. Lotte Aagaard from T.G. Publishing Denmark. Stefan is managing to juggle school and music as well as guitar studies, and the producing area with Cool Bro Sound, and hosting a web televised show Aiming 4 Fame TV, In the meantime watch out for more.

You can find Stefan Galea myspace page here and his facebook fan page here!