Due to inclement weather, the 2019 edition of the HillTop Rock Festival has been rescheduled and will now take place on Saturday, December 7, 2019. This year, HillTop Rock will welcome upon its stage the Queen of Malta’s pop scene, Ira Losco, in a concert that aims to feature the best local talent on the grandest of stages. The concert, organised by MedDad Live and sponsored by the Ministry for Gozo will start at 8.30pm, and will be held in Victory Square, Xaghra. Ira Losco

They're Gozitan, they're metal and they rock...very hard! Ascendor has, in the space of the seven or so years since the band was formed, established itself among the leading thrash metal acts on the local scene. Up until yesterday, their catalogue consisted of two albums, 2013's Becoming and 2015's Drive My Demons Away; both records brimming with pummeling riffage that reflected their thrash roots as much as it did a number of other influences, among them progressive and deat

Gaulitanus Choir is proud to announce the 11th edition of Gaulitana: A Festival of Music. Running from 25 February until 2 April, 2017, “Gozo’s main classical festival” will feature a multifarious programme of events in various genres and styles. The highlight will be Puccini’s opera Madama Butterfly, being held at the Teatru tal-Opra Aurora on April 1. The full-scale production will present Malta’s internationally acclaimed soprano Miriam Gauci in the lead role. Colin Attard

I can’t recall when and how exactly I got to know of Divine Sinners, but it was probably through the video for Another Lonely Christmas, which I had come across on YouTube; that and the fact that their name is quite interesting too. Hailing from Gozo, they’d been operating mostly under the radar (my radar, at least) for a few years already, and had recorded three albums even before playing their first gig. That was 2009, and in the years that have passed, Divine Sinners grew