This Drama

Name: This Drama

Meaning of the name: This drama called life

Members:
Asdrúbal Marichal – Voz (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 03/07/78)
Yapci Quiros – Bajo (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 17/04/77)
Fran Saavedra – Guitarra (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 09/03/77)
Iñaki Recio – Guitarra (Ibiza, 13/05/81)
Miguel Arimany – Batería (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 02/05/79)
From: Tenerife, Canary Islands
Albums:
“Tarantula Mata” (Deep Elm, 2010)
“San Diego XIII” (Deep Elm, 2009)
“We Rock, You Don’t” (KTC, 2006)
Singles, Compilations, Samplers:
“Deep Elm Sampler 10” (Deep Elm, 2010)
“Rockzone Sampler 60” (Rockzone, 2010)
“Deep Elm Sampler 9” (Deep Elm, 2010)
“FMAC 4” (Mckenzie Muzik, 2009)
“Deep Elm DVD 3” (Deep Elm, 2008)
“The Emo Diaries 11” (Deep Elm, 2007)
“Festimad Taste 4” (Fundacion Autor, 2007)
“Tiger Meets Lion” (Hardware Music, 2006)
“Rockzone Sampler 12” (Rockzone, 2006)
"Radio Explodes” (Hardware Music, 2005)
Discography record: Deep Elm Records
Style/s: Rock/Punk
Influences: SoCal
It all began: 2005
Biography:
Not many bands in our country can say that their songs have become the soundtrack of video games or regular tune on MTV programs seen around the world, having participated in mass festivals outside of our borders like SXSW and the Canadian Music Fest, or simply to surround theirselfs with an exceptional production studio team in Los Angeles to shape the latest album. This drama is one of them.

Since their started in 2005, this Canary band has had a meteoric career. With their first single "Radio Explodes" and sounded on Bruce Dickinson´s "Rock Show" English programe on BBC-6, which would lead them to do their first concerts in London. In 2008, after taking first place in the Rock Villa Awards of Madrid, shaped their acclaimed debut album "San Diego 13" that a year later crossed the Atlantic on a tour across California and participated for the first time at the prestigious SXSW festival in Austin (Texas). A premonitory tour that took them months later to sign with Deep Elm Records, the American label that today continues to guide the accelerated steps of the band.

In 2010, the quintet returned to Los Angeles to be held by Joby Ford, guitarist of the seminal of The Bronx and assumes along with This Drama the role of producer in the recording of their second album "Kill Tarantula", the work ends to define the sound and the direction taken by the group. A new album in 2011, gives way to their third and most extensive North American tour and gain a spot in some of the most interesting festivals of our country as the Azkena Rock Festival or the Resurrection Fest.
Contact: hello@thisdrama.com
Web: www.thisdrama.com

Likes?

Asdrubal: Tacos and macho nachos

Fran: Good music, good food and good sex

Iñaki: Travelling, the beach and tequila

Miguel: Gather drinks after a good show and shear then with my friends

Yapci: Any thing that I like

Dislikes?

Asdrubal: Vintage

Fran: Lies

Iñaki: Interviews

Miguel: Merengue

Yapci: Anchovies and marzipan

Belives in…

Asdrubal: my family

Fran: in doing good and not look who too

Iñaki: at this point, I don´t belice in anything

Miguel: ...God. I belive in Messi!

Yapci: my mother

Why Monster?

Asdrubal: Big fuckin’ can

Fran: Because they suport bands giving their all for their future projects

Iñaki: Because of their marketing

Miguel: Because it releases the "beast" in me...lol

Yapci: Why us?

Best Monster moment?

Asdrubal: Azkena Rock Festival

Fran: Interview at Azkena Rock

Iñaki: Resurrection Fest and Azkena Rock Fest

Miguel: This Drama live at Azkena Rock on the Monster stage...brutal!!

Yapci: Without a doubt Azkena and Resurrection

Favorite flavor?

Asdrubal: Original

Fran: Ripper

Iñaki: Ripper

Miguel: Jack the “Ripper”!

Yapci: Pear pinapple

Sports?

Asdrubal: Beer pong

Fran: I´m vigorex

Iñaki:  Extrem sofing

Miguel: Lifting elbow of bars

Yapci: Any sport that I don´t have to do much effort

Tattoos? (…their meanings)

Asdrubal: I lost count

Fran: There´s some...

Iñaki: They all have their meaningsand moments...and I forgot them

Miguel: I have one that´s in chineese and I don´t know the meaning, so imagine.

Yapci: Ask Pachu (oficial tattooer)

Sick track…

Asdrubal: Die Antwoord - Rich Bitch

Fran: Christeene- "Fix My Dick" (I recomend the video)

Iñaki: Cecilio Alva - "Vagabundo Soy"

Miguel: "El mariachi loco" good track, yes sir!.

Yapci: any of Cecilio Alva

Best live song?

Asdrubal: La Santera

Fran: Seaside

Iñaki: 127 La Brea

Miguel: Espera Miseria

Yapci: La santera

What should your fans/readers should know about you?

Asdrubal: I sleep four hours a day

Fran: I do charlot and vomit easily in the car

Iñaki: When I´m not touring, I´m  tattooing

Miguel: Yes, that´s me in the back… the one inside the clowd of smoke. Drums on platforms against smoke NOW!!!

Yapci: I do the helicopter sound really well

What’s essential in your suitcase when you go travelling/tour?

Asdrubal: Omeprazol

Fran: Good aftershave, slips of good luck, a pipa, tie, un monoculo and of course the por supuesto las ganas de tocar

Iñaki: Toothbrush and ibuprofeno

Miguel: Drumb kit, "pedal"....lol

Yapci: The mobile farmacy

Favorite gatget?

Asdrubal: Commodore-64

Fran: Fatbooth

Iñaki: The gadget arm!

Miguel: The laserdisc

Yapci: The "sorolla" (great machine)

Anecdote?

Asdrubal: Getting down of the stage without calculating if I could get back on it

Fran: Me and Iñaki puking at the same time in each window of a taxi cab in Brooklyn coming back from a concert (with the after party with tequila shots drinking it like water) and Yapa in the middle taling in spanish to the taxi driver: "keep going we are almost there", and of course, Iñaki´s successful moment getting out of the taxi rolling over trash bags of a near-by street

Iñaki: One of my best was breaking my hip from falling off my skateboard from a second floor.

Miguel: That the presentation of your new LP lasted 3 minutes, that you base guitarist goes to the hospital with a microphone in his forehead and steeling the guitar of one of the bands has no price.

Yapci: Do you know the one about Brooklyn?

Strenghts and weaknesses?

Asdrubal: Constancy… is valid for both

Fran: Too good looking and not enough sex

Iñaki: That I´m always right, eithen without beeing the client! ;)

Miguel: I´m very chatty, but when I´m drunk I can dry your ear!

Yapci: I listen, but don´t understand what they are saying

What or who motivates you/Who inspires you?

Asdrubal: Star rout 1 of california

Fran: Anyone who is willing to listen

Iñaki: The neighbour from the 5th floor

Miguel: Green rice with corn and huancaína...that inspires me!

Yapci: I rather not reply that question

What is the most crazy thing you’ve done?

Asdrubal: Put together This Drama

Fran: Go out to buy "churros" with my face covered with blood

Iñaki: Once I drank water at a party

Miguel: I think It´s about to get here...3,2,1....

Yapci: Join these four drunk men.