The Girona rock group that has amazed Pedro Sánchez

GironaFriday, May 1st in the evening, the Girona-based band Minibús Intergalàctic was performing at the Ateneu Salvador Catà in Girona. It was an open-air, self-managed concert, amidst independence and Palestinian flags, to celebrate the eleventh anniversary of this occupied social center. Two days later, their phones started ringing off the hook. The reason was that Pedro Sánchez, in his weekly TikTok videos of cultural recommendations, recommended them to his followers, over 800,000: "I listened to this band I didn't know, Catalan, from Girona. I recommend, from their latest album, this song that I loved, which is Per sentir-me ple", said the president of the government.

Immediately, they started receiving hundreds of messages and, once they confirmed that it was for real and not a video made with artificial intelligence, true to their rowdy and irreverent character, they went with the flow and started joking about it online with memes and messages. "Next time you play in an athenaeum, we'll arrive with the Falcon," they shared.

All this has coincided with the release of their second album, Polynomial oscillating movement y = 1/x, which consolidates their commitment to alternative, underground, noisy and psychedelic rock, with British roots from the sixties and eighties. Their lyrics are quite metaphorical and volatile, but with a political background that, as they acknowledge these days, is "at the antipodes of PSOE and PSC".

Be that as it may, their proposal, genuine and at the same time extravagant, has pleased Sánchez. In fact, the president has always shown a preference for alternative rock and had already recommended, for example, Cala Vento from Empordà, champions of electric guitars, who sing mostly in Spanish. But that he mentions Minibús is still surprising. Especially because they are five friends from the University of Girona, who are just now, with this second album, beginning to make a name for themselves outside the Girona region. What they did not expect was to reach Spain so quickly and, even less, Moncloa. 

After two or three days of a frenzy, they have ended up on top of media attention and do not want to feed the beast any further. They prefer to let the hype pass and concentrate on rehearsing: they present the album this Saturday, May 9th in Barcelona. Who knows if with a guest of honor.