None of the publicity advertising it mentioned that it was an MLP-sponsored activity, not even when the billboards supporting it are reportedly owned by the Labour Party. But Friday's Rise Up event at the Eden Arena by Jaba was what amounted to a mock run of the coming election campaign, much as the MTV event in July and the coming Euro Festival on New Year's Eve will be mainly Nationalist Party events. There was a massive amount of pre-publicity on One TV for the Jaba concert, culminating with a special edition of Str82dpoint from the same venue on Thursday, with participants from the singing fraternity complaining, perhaps justifiably, that the money spent on the MTV event, which gave no publicity to Maltese bands, could have more profitably been spent on promoting Maltese singers