The backline and the drums are very important gear for a stage performance, but in the meantime these are hard to transport too. We love to see as many artists as possible perform their music on stage, and therefore, Sun-Sounds lends a helping hand by the means of its instrument rental in Malta. Drum kits We have a black Premier drum kit for rent. Alternatively, the high-end drum kits Sonor SQ2 and DW Collector Series are also available. Guitar and bass amplifiers We have several guitar and bass amplifiers for rent. We can offer the guitar amplifiers Engl Invader and Marshall JCM 900 and the bass amplifier Ashdown CTM 100 and Laney, all including head and cabinet. Guitars and basses We would also be able to rent out some of our personal guitar and bass collection on request. Service Sun-Sounds will deliver the rented instruments, set it up and perform a line check for you. After your use, we will pick up the equipment and transport it to our storage. Pricing On request we will provide a quote for you on a per day basis for the leased instruments. You can contact us through our email address and/or phone number below.

Especially when on holiday, you might feel the urge to take out your guitar and play some music or perform a jam session in your apartment, around a bonfire or at the beach. We at Sun-Sounds understand that feeling, and therefore we rent out some of our acoustic and classical guitars here locally in Malta. You can contact us by a phone call or an email for more information and to book your guitar in advance.

Composer and guitar virtuoso Andy Mckee will visit Malta for an intimate solo concert at The City Theatre in Valletta. Buy you tickets from here Andy McKee is among the world’s finest acoustic guitarists, and his crossover success to over 150 million YouTube viewers underscores his emergence as one of today’s most unique and influential artists. To fans of virtuoso musicianship it is Andy’s attention to song structure and melodic content that elevates him above the rest. To fans of popular music Andy entertains both the eye and the ear as he magically transforms the steel string guitar into full orchestra via his use of altered tunings, tapping, partial capos, percussive hits and a signature two-handed technique. He’s been featured as a cover story in both Acoustic Guitar Magazine in the U.S. and Acoustic Magazine in the UK, and is also the figurehead of the unique Guitar Masters tours which have traveled the world over the past three years. With his influence continuing to grow, in 2012 Andy was personally asked by living-legend Prince – yes PRINCE, who found him on YouTube! – to join his band for a series of shows in Australia. Andy now looks to challenge himself even further in 2014 and beyond with more surprise collaborations, diverse music releases, development of new instrument products (including Ernie Ball’s Aluminium Bronze strings) and ceaseless international touring including new markets such as India, Argentina, Russia, the Middle East, Greece and now Malta!! "“Andy is a great player who puts all these guitar techniques into songs he writes and plays that make them quite interesting. But it’s still all about the song.”- ERIC JOHNSON "This gent takes you on a vision of the future of the possibilities of the guitar, and he makes it looks promising!"-JAZZ WEEKLY "The appeal of instrumental acoustic guitar music probably isn't obvious to everyone. It's a genre that seems almost exclusively designed for musicians. Artists like Andy McKee are doing their best to break down that particular barrier, with startlingly beautiful results." -HERALD SCOTLAND Date: 23rd May 2015 Time: 20:00hrs Doors Open Venue: City Theatre - Valletta Facebook Event Page Also giving you the opportunity to meet up the legendery Andy McKee for a two hour workshop! This is a unique opportunity to spend some time with the artist himself, one of the most sought after musicians of our time in an up close and personal setting. A must for all guitarists, musicians who are passionate about their craft and eager to learn something new. Andy will play some of his tunes and elaborate on his unique style of playing and composing.There is no level or style recommendation, if you love music and want to learn this is something you don't want to miss! Very limited seating available on first come first served basis. RSVP: +356 79205402 WorkShop Facebook Event Page

After months of hard work. We are honoured to be launching Malta's 1st Vintage and Used instrument shop in Sliema. Displaying used, vintage and rare instruments, Maltese Music Merchandise, and also hosting Guitar & Bass Lessons. P.S The shop is not open on usual shop hours, therefore we'd like you to get in contact with us and book you're appointment for instrument viewing!

It all started with a Guitar Collection and Guitar lessons, we soon pictured the idea of going through a "new business venture". We owned a small cosy place in Sliema, but never seemed to come up with an idea good enough to give it a purpose. We decided that we should use the locality to gather more students within our lesson schedule. Why not right? Work commenced on the place when soon after we came up with this amazing idea of opening up a Vintage and Used instrument shop and launching the idea within the Maltese musician culture. This way we wouldn't always have to go abroad to witness beautifully aged instruments :) Also giving the ability to musicians to display their used music equipment in the shop and we get to earn a small commission O_o ... Brilliant idea to host used, quality, vintage and rare instruments in a local shop. Adding all up to that, there wasn't a shop who was holding such a business structure locally, so we'd be the first :D ... not competing with any other music business is a great opportunity for a startup run by two dumbo's in their early 20's we guessed! Take a look of how the shop came along together between the months of Febuary and August 2014:

About mikebugeja.com Mad about music from the get-go, I've been following the music scene in Malta since childhood. Decades have passed since those early days of collecting newspaper cuttings in a scrapbook, and here I am, all these years later, still as crazy about music as I've ever been. In the interim, I've done everything from being a fan, a roadie, even 'singing' in a few bands (none you would know), a club DJ, a radio DJ/producer, music PR and, for the best part of 20 years, a music journalist (the latter three I still do on a regular basis). That's it in a nutshell. Bearing in mind the positive feedback that my LIB66 website, quite likely the first to be focused entirely on the Maltese music scene, had received back in the days of Geocities, I really should have set up this website a long time ago, but never really got round to it. Well, here it is finally... a website that brings together a good chunk (but not everything) that I've been up to in my life that is related to music, and the Maltese music scene in particular. My first article to be published dates back to May 1996 (The Malta Independent) , when I stepped in to cover for a music journalist who was away on holiday. Since then, in no particular order, I've written for The Malta Independent, Dansezee, Sunday Circle, Modern Elegance, The People and The Sunday Times of Malta, where from October 2007 up to May 2014, I was the resident music correspondent, using my pages to help promote local acts and boost the public's awareness of what goes on within Malta's music scene. This website and M3P.com.mt is where much of my work will now be featured, bar the occasional printed article here and there. Expect some of my past works along with new articles to pop up here along the way. In the meantime, please feel free to contact me with any feedback..it is always welcome! Radio Show ROCKNA is a weekly Friday evening live radio show presented by Michael Bugeja and broadcast on Radio 101 between 7pm and 8.30pm CET. The show features bands, artists, musicians, promoters and music-related organizations connected to the music scene in Malta. The main focus is rock music, but the show covers most other genres; from electronica and jazz to metal, folk and hiphop. The show often also features live exclusive unplugged sessions. Click here for ROCKNA FACEBOOK PAGE TUNE in on 101FM, DAB+ or at www.radio101.com.mt www.mikebugeja.com

Leo Fender, inventor of one of the most popular electric guitar brands in the world, Fender Guitars, never learned how to play guitar. In addition to that, he actually was an accountant before losing his job in the Great Depression. When he lost his job, he decided to turn his hobby of tinkering with electronics, radios, amplifiers, and the like, into a business, “Fender Radio and Record Shop”, which eventually led to what is now known as the “Fender Musical Instruments Corporation” and the creation of his now famous guitars and amplifiers. Despite designing the first commercially successful solid-body electric guitar, the Telecaster, and the most influential of all electric guitars, the Stratocaster, and inventing the solid-body electric bass guitar, the Precision bass, Clarence Leonidas “Leo” Fender was an engineer, not a musician and he couldn’t get himself to play a lick of guitar! As such, he had to bring in musicians to properly test out the prototypes of his guitars. Fender’s fascination with electronics started when he was 14 years old. His uncle had built a radio from spare parts and the loud music coming from the speaker impressed Leo. Later, repairing radios became a hobby for Fender.During his college years, Fender studied to be an accountant while continuing to teach himself electronics as a hobby, never taking any electronics courses while in college. For quite some time after graduating, Fender worked as an accountant. After losing his job due to the Great Depression, he opened the Fender Radio and Record Shop in Fullerton, CA where he was able to combine his love of music and tinkering with electronics. Part of the service he offered at his shop was amplifier repair. Bonus Facts: The company created by Leo Fender was purchased by CBS in 1965 for $13 million, which was around $2 million more than CBS payed for the New York Yankees just two years before. The company was later bought from CBS by the employees of the company in 1985 at which point it was renamed the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, which today is the world’s number one manufacturer of stringed instruments with annual sales of around $200 million. Lap guitars were originally developed by Hawaiian musicians and only much later became fixtures of country-western music. Leo Fender was building his amps and guitars for around a decade before rock ‘n roll artists began to popularly use Fender’s instruments. Initially, it was country musicians that first discovered an began popularly using Fender guitars. The Fender Stratocaster is still the most popular and copied electric guitar in the world. Similar to Fender, Laurens Hammond, the American engineer who designed and built the famous Hammond organ and the world’s first polyphonic musical synthesizer had to hire employees with musical background to help to refine and test his inventions as he didn’t know how to play the organ! G&L on another hand is a guitar design and production company founded by Leo Fender, George Fullerton, and Dale Hyatt in the late 1970s. Fender sold his company named Fender in 1965. He designed and produced instruments for Music Man in the 1970s through his company CLF Research. When relations with Music Man soured, G&L was created to continue operations outside of Music Man. The G&L name comes from the initials of George (Fullerton) and Leo (Fender).