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- Malta/Day 2 -
30/06/2001
We met David Vella at 11:00 on the 30th of June. He's the owner
of Temple Studios where we are recording. We had heard a lot about
him from Moses who made records here with Philip Boa and funny
enough he knows Tom (from Instant Karma days) and Julia (from
Boa) also. So we got to know each other in the way all musicians
do, talk about music and friends.
David knows a lot about the German music scene having worked with
Philip Boa for a long time, but also Rammstein and Such a Surge
recorded here. English bands were Screaming Orphans (produced
by Mike Hedges) and Pitchfork, among others. And of course all
of Malta's bands go through David's studio sometime.
David took us to the car rental people and we got a Maruti (!)
Jeep. It's one of these weird cars that would never be allowed
in northern Europe, two people sit in the front and up to six
people can sit on the back facing each other, and if you don't
hold on tight you will be missing when the jeep gets to it's destination!
After that we took a peek in the Studio. It's in a sensational
location, right on the sea in Mistra Bay a small bay overlooking
St Paul's. It used to be a winery, then David bought it and rebuilt
it from scratch, using the original stone blocks which are made
of a soft sandstone. Looks like a Moorish castle (Ok, a small
one!). Next door in the same building is an Italian restaurant,
but after our bad experience with Malta's cooking, we were wary.
We had the day to ourselves and did some sightseeing. We drove
the jeep to Paradise Bay, a small beach in the north of Malta,
we did some swimming and relaxed. We decided to try the restaurant
next to the studio because if it was crap we would have to work
out something else for food, for the next 10 days. But our apprehensions
were unfounded the restaurant was great and we ate much too much.
The antipasti was amazing, the pizza so-so, but Dan said the spaghetti
was great, so it's going to good and for the fast-food lovers
in the band (do we have them?) they even do a Burger! we tried
the red wine and the Merlot was good. We actually drank two bottles
of wine and dinner took three hours. Even the espresso was good.
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