Alternative Malta

Alison Galea, vocalist/guitarist of leading Maltese pop/rock band Beangrowers, kept a diary of the band's United States working visit last year. Their dream as a band is to have a proper tour of the US and to move to New York City! Day 4 of their tour from the alternativemalta website:

Yesterday (Friday) was the big day! In the morning played a live acoustic set
and had an interview with Austin's most popular DJ John Aielli. He asked so many
questions about Malta I was glad I remembered my Maltese history classes :-))

6pm Soundcheck at the venue, Fox and Hound

9pm - 9:40pm
SHOWTIME! Finally the moment of truth. We attracted at least 400 people to this
small outdoor venue and lots more joined in the crowd after hearing us from the
streets. They seemed to warm up to us straight away which was such a pleasant
surprise, me and the guys gave a great performance. It's so easy to perform well
when the crowd cheers and when i can see them moving to our music, most of them
smiling all the time. We had a great time, anyway. After the show loads of
people came up to us to meet us and after 15 mins we had already sold our last
CD! Now we can safely say our trip here was successful and a door has been
opened to new opportunities. And everyone is intrigued by Malta. We might be
attracting some Texans down there. The Malta Tourism Authority owes us!!

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