Chasing Pandora LIVE at the Roundhouse
11th February 2010

Malta’s Chasing Pandora, bring an exquisite collection of superb musical masterpieces to UK shores with the arrival of their latest album, ’The Driver and the Dancer’, released on 1 March 2010. Following hot on the heels of the band’s single success in 2009, The Freedom Studio at The Roundhouse on 11th February will be an evening of song writing at its finest showing Chasing Pandora at their musical best.

"This is what popular music should be like" -
Classic Rock Magazine

"These Malteser's are an appetizing prospect indeed" -
The Fly Magazine

"Driven by classy melodies, aching human emotion and musicianship" -
Acoustic Magazine

Click on the album artwork (left) to book tickets.

Chasing Pandora Featured in this week's
Music Week The Panel:

"There seems to be a free spirit with this excellent Maltese band that brings hope to a world stuffed full of hype and greed!"

Martin Hudson (Classic Rock Society)

Review of Chasing Pandora's forthcoming single 'Running in Circles' in Classic Rock Society Magazine

For those with a penchant for the female voice here is one for you. The Maltese duo Chasing Pandora is led by the voice of Melissa Portelli with Keith Anthony the other half of the project. This 4-track release is a delight and very much in the gentler side of, say, All About Eve and even Suzanne Vega and that ilk - and for those CRS gig regulars, Gina Dootson comes to mind. With a crisp guitar background (and sometime piano and strings) and the quite exquisite, clear and refreshing vocals this should be a release to enable access to the wider market. Forget the 'in ya face' mainstream, this is what popular music should really be about. Pleasure to listen to! MH

Review of Chasing Pandora's gig @ The Enterprise in the August Edition of The Fly

Their countrymen are profoundly in love with Chasing Pandora, apparently, and we can well believe it: Melissa is Tori Amos’ voice-box transplanted into the body of a simultaneously stentorian and seductive Eurovixen, while Keith is a Mediterranean Joseph Fiennes walloping effects pedals so adroitly that a couple of strums become a zither duvet of reverb, and they specialize in sleeve-hearted, spectral acoustica – especially the towering, twin-vocalled ‘Time’ – these Maltesers are an appetizing prospect indeed.

Iain Moffat

Review of Time in Acoustic Magazine

This four-track CD of bittersweet folk-pop is a near-perfect introduction to Malta’s latest and greatest musical hope. It’s not traditional Maltese music, but a contemporary anglophone sound driven by classy melodies, aching human emotion and considerable musicianship. Melissa Portelli exorcises her personal demons by writing and singing from the heart, while talented multi-instrumentalist Keith Anthony swirls music around her in flurries of melodic highs and lows. His guitar fronts his one-man orchestra, and although it’s sensitively played and neatly harmonised, it’s only the clean production that keeps it in check. Repeated listening brings its own reward, and once it hooks itself into your ear you’ll find it pleasantly and harmlessly addictive.