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Maltese Music Festival Is Bringing The Best Of Everything From Techno To Hip Hop

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Sickfest is back for a third edition this summer, but this year will see the festival expanding its views way beyond the alternative music scene. Going down on the 11th and 12th of August at Paceville’s Tigullio Complex, the festival will be hosting three different areas with anything from techno to hip hop on offer.

To achieve this variety, the organisers teamed up with some of the biggest party promoters on the island right now. One stage, for example, is going to be entirely dedicated to Lollipop, who have been taking Malta by storm with their monthly gay bashes. Another one will see hip hop and trap promoters Tale, whose parties have never failed to sell out. The night will also see a live performance by 215 Collective, a young local hip hop group who we think can really go places.

If techno is more your thing, Sickfest has also got you covered. Entropy is bringing PSYK to the festival, whose gig rotation includes the legendary Boiler Room Sessions and Berlin’s infamous Berghain, one of the world’s most popular nightclubs.

Of course, Sickfest will still be focusing on bands for this third edition, and nine local acts will take the stage over the two nights. The artists, ranging from hardcore punk trio BILA to the quirky Bark Bark Disco, will also be joined by two international bands; Neon Islands from the UK and Italy’s Caron Dimonio

In 2012, local alternative music promoters Sick of Ants organized a music festival in Buskett featuring the top local acts from the alternative scene. After a couple of years that saw the organization hosting odd parties around the island, Sickfest returned in 2016 with a two-day festival over Santa Marija weekend. 

“We wanted to capture all that’s cool within the Maltese subculture scenes and put it all under one roof over one weekend,” Sick of Ants told Lovin Malta. “We want to show everyone that there’s more to the local alternative scene than meets the eye, and that there’s something for everyone.”

Sickfest is being organised in collaboration with Lovin Malta, XFM and Alternative Hairdressing. Tickets for the festival are out now, and more information can be found on the official Facebook event page.

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Lovin Malta's Head of Content, Dave has been in journalism for the better half of the last decade. Prefers Instagram, but has been known to doomscroll on TikTok. Loves chicken, women's clothes and Kanye West (most of the time).

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