Owen Pallett at San Gejtanu Band Club, Malta

Owen Pallett, best known as the violin player from the band The Arcade Fire, will be performing in Malta on Sunday May 1st at the San Gejtanu Band Club in Hamrun.

Stagedive and Kinemastik had joined forces n the summer of 2009 for the Bonnie Prince Billy concert, and are now collaborating once again, this time to bring the outstanding Owen Pallett to these shores.


Born in 1979, Pallett is a Canadian composer, violinist, keyboardist, and vocalist from Toronto, Ontario. He started his solo career under the name Final Fantasy, and soon gained a strong reputation for his eclectic live performances, which sometimes include cover versions ranging from indie favourites like Bloc Party, to OMD, to some very unlikely ones (Mariah Carey, anyone?).

In 2006 his second solo album He Poos Cloud went on to win the first edition of the Polaris Music Prize (Canada’s equivalent to the UK’s Mercury Awards).

For his third album Heartland, Pallett enlisted the services of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. The record oscillates between 19th century military music, ’70s analog synth-pop, Russian futurism and American pointillism, often in the space of a few bars.

Pallett has also collaborated with such artists as Beirut, The Last Shadow Puppets, Grizzly Bear, Pet Shop Boys and Mika. He especially shares a bond with The Arcade Fire, contributing orchestral and string arrangements on all 3 of their albums, include 2010’s Grammy-award winning ’The Suburbs’, as well as forming part of their touring line-up.

Tickets (15e / 18e at the door) will be out very soon, and you can prebook them at stagedivemalta@gmail.com

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