So exactly what has Willie Mangion Mascolo spent the last year doing, paid out of the public purse?
The Malta Independent has sought to discover exactly what it is that Willie Mangion Mascolo has been doing over the last year.
The washed-up singer (the Maltese market for male divas is even smaller than that for women, because they can’t sing Tema 79 in Gensna) was given a year’s full-time contract by Jo’s government to spend his days hunting down garages in which bands can rehearse.
Was this job needed? Not by the country or the bands, but by Willie Mangion Mascolo, because his voice now sounds as though he’s having his gonads ripped out without anaesthetic.
He appeared on Jo’s billboards and sang part of a ditty on one of Mario Philip Azzopardi’s rip-off videos during the election campaign, and so Jo owed him one.
But though he has spent the last year hunting, beating down the doors of real estate agents, Willie hasn’t found a garage for Jo’s favourite bands.
And to make matters worse, he’s been banned from speaking to the press.
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http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-03-27/news/one-year-on-still-no-garages-for-bandswillie-mangion-barred-from-speaking-to-media-4398710788/
The fourth paragraph of that article looks like it has been copied and pasted from an undergraduate Sociology essay. The language is positively mind-numbing. Could someone please translate it?
If bands are so helpless and can’t even find themselves a bloody garage how do they expect to make it in the music business?
There’s always GENSNA. Who needs a garage?
Garages with good acoustics are hard to come by but there is a splendid large garage, free for the taking, in Marsascala that will fit the bill if Willie does not mind the bullet holes in the walls.
Who cares about acoustics when it comes to a rock band rehearsals? Do you think Wembley Stadium has good acoustics? Just pump up the volume and problem solved!
Indeed.
The gods made heavy metal, and they saw that it was good. They said to play it louder than hell. We promised that we would.
Genau!
The bands themselves are on record as saying they didn’t need Mangion to seek out rehearsal spaces because it isn’t rehearsal spaces that they need.
Hi Will – why not contact Owner’s Best for a garage and get it over and done with?
Wasn’t this man a self-declared ‘Born Again Christian’ at some point before Labour put him in the garage business?
Maybe if Willie drops by at one of the local offices of Henley Estates they might find him a few garages in less time than he can say “this time.”
If you want to hear his gonads being ripped apart without anaesthetic pop in at the Corinthia San Gorg on Wednesday evenings.
Qed tara Willie x’jigri meta ma ssibilhomx garaxx? Wiehed bhal Erin Tanti jispicca fuq il-blat bil-qalziet ta’ taht.
Ejja he, sibilhom xi haga, imqar kamra tas-sodda.