A festival which will be held at the Gianpula nightclub on August 15 will have to finish by 0200h the next morning, after the Court turned down a request for an address to be heard with compulsion.
The Creamfields Malta festival, which is being held at the Gianpula Fields, limits of Rabat, was set to begin at 2000h and finish at 0400h.

However, the police only accepted the event to go on until 0200h, and an appeal filed at the police board of appeal was turned down. The police commissioner maintained that during the Moby agreement, which was held in the same location on June 28, the police received a number of complaints from near by residents.

The club’s holder, Roger de Giorgio, took the case to Court, asking for the case to be heard with complusion to accept for the accident to last until 0400h in the event of a favourable Court decision.

This request was, however, denied by Mr Justice Joseph Camilleri on Wednesday.

On the event’s website, the club’s arranger had already announced that the festival will now open 2 hours earlier, at 1800h, to adhere to the permit.

“Due to circumstances beyond their control, the organisers would like to announce a change in this year’s Creamfields Festival schedule. The shift relates to a decision by local authorities to change their policies in respect to limit the permit of one-off events to 2 am,” the statement reads.