Damato Records in Valletta have removed the damaged HMV sign: it was one of the oldest shop-signs still standing and was damaged by a construction truck.
It’s removal is a fitting symbol to an end of an era of local culture and beauty that was cut short by the hubris of the Labour government’s Dubai-styled rent-seeking and criminal-money-laundering regime. From local concerts, bookshops and record stores to government subsidised concerts by international pop-stars. Gladiator and Jurassic Park and private parties with Russel Crowe, but local film producers are leaving. From a fledgling literary industry to vindictive expulsions at the National Book Council. From a beautiful landscape to a construction site. I could go on.
Truly a mesmerising spectacle of self-destruction.
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