Gatomidi
Madrid, Madrid, Spain | Established. Jan 01, 2011 | SELF
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Gatomidi is a band composed by Jimena Quejigo (Lyrics, bass, keyboard and vocal), Nolasco Contreras (Vocal and guitar) and Julián Dolado (Drums). Their story begins in 2011 in Valencia recording their demo “Facing destiny” in which before their physical edition, Cushion R Records (Manchester) and Allan obinson, posed their eyes on the band who included it in the compilation releasing in the same year 5.000 copies of the song "I believe" that was distributed in UK and Ireland. During this period the band started a frenetic time of concerts in Madrid, Andalucía, Castilla La Mancha, Comunidad Valenciana, Extremadura... where they were compared with Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Pixies or Joy Division. They started to get recognition fr om the press and in the competition shows as winers of the Vinilo Valencia 3.0, best band in the Criminales Music Awards, Overbooking Express 2011, finalist in the Circuit Rock Awards 2011, PlanetaDemos 2011, Radio Utopia Awards, among other awards. They e played that demo in renowned Festivals as for Monkey Week 2012 and ven Arenal Sound 2012, also appeared in the media as for, Radio 3, Mondosonoro or MTV. At the end of 2012 the band returns to the studio to record what would be their first album named "E nclosed Spaces", for them an enormous and exciting learning experimental experience. "Enclosed Spaces" was released in September 2013 and the premiere took place in the Deleste Festival 2013 and featuring with French Films on Spanish Tour. Later on Juli an Dolado replaced drummer Jorge Serrano. The 2013-2014 season was highly satisfactory. The album had a very good reception from the press, appeared on the top lists of the year, the songs were played on international radios as for New York, Mexico and Argentina... Luckily the concerts continued unabated, they even were one of the eight emerging bands selected by Captain Demo (Radio 3) to perform a concert at the IRTVE and won the XIV Valencia Crea Awards for Best album. During the summer of 2014 Gatomidi produced a digital format single, their version of 'I'm wating for the man' of The Velvet Underground a tribute that the band made to one of their favorite groups and which received a satisfactory acceptance. In summer of 2014 the band played in festivals like FIB, ARENAL SOUND, FRA. Gatomidi has just finished recording their next album which will be released soon.
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