The rock group from Girona that has amazed Pedro Sánchez

GironaOn the afternoon of Friday, May 1st, the Girona-based group Minibús Intergalàctic was performing at the Ateneu Salvadora Catà in Girona. It was an open-air, self-managed concert, held between independence and Palestinian flags, to celebrate the eleventh anniversary of this 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, more than 800,000: "I've listened to this group I didn't know, from Catalonia, 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 began to receive hundreds of messages and, once they confirmed that it was serious and not a video made with artificial intelligence, true to their mischievous and irreverent character, they went with the flow and started joking online with memes and messages. "Next time we play at an ateneo, we'll arrive with the Falcon," they shared.

All of this has coincided with the release of their second album, Polynomial oscillating movement y = 1/x, which consolidates their commitment to an 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 undertone that, as they acknowledge these days, is "at the opposite ends 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 predilection for alternative rock and had already recommended, for example, the Empordà band Cala Vento, champions of electric guitars, who sing mostly in Spanish. But that he mentions Minibús is still surprising. Especially since they are five friends from the Universitat de Girona, who just now, with this second album, are beginning to make a name for themselves outside the counties of Girona. What they did not expect is to reach Spain so quickly and, even less so, the Moncloa. 

After two or three days of a whirlwind, they have ended up completely saturated with the media echo and do not want to feed the hype any more. They prefer to let the hype pass and concentrate on rehearsing: they are presenting the album this Saturday, May 9th, in Barcelona. Who knows if with a guest of honor.