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Girish and The Chronicles
Also known as	GATC
Origin	Gangtok, Sikkim, India
Genres	Hard rock, heavy metal, blues rock, rock
Years active	2009–present
Labels	Universal Music India
Members	Girish Pradhan Suraz Karki Yogesh Pradhan Nagen Mongranti
Past members	Noel Lepcha

Feats

Feat	Category	Year
Montenegro International Suncane Skale Music Festival, Europe	Silver for “Yesteryears“	2010
Yamaha Asian Beats	Best vocalist (With Silver Tears)	2011

Famous Songs

• Angel(2009)
• A New Beginning(2011)
• Golden Crown(2009)

Members

• Girish Pradhan– Vocals/Guitars
  • Suraz Karki– Lead guitars
  • Yogesh Pradhan– Bass guitars
  • Nagen Mongranti– Drums
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Girish and The Chronicles [part: 4]

Signing up with some venues, the band soon travelled to Hong Kong for year long stay. Girish occasionally came back to India giving solo performances. Finally deciding to leave Hong Kong, he came back to India, and at end 2012, starting with a solo performance in PEC fest, Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh.

Soon after a month, the band, who were on a vacation, decided to comeback and start recording again. They started off with a concert in the city of Siliguri, which lies near to their hometown.

The band started the year 2013 with a three-month long recording, with new songs and Re-Mastering of their older tracks.

GATC has released their first album – ‘BACK ON EARTH’ consisting of 14 Tracks in August, 2014 under Universal Music Group label. The Album release was followed by a national Hard Rock Cafe Tour. The Album is being promoted by Contrabands, which is a property of Universal Music Group, VH1 & Hard Rock Cafe.

Girish and The Chronicles [part: 3]

Soon, in mid-2010, Their single “Yesteryears” was nominated and awarded a Silver Trophy, in the Suncane Skale festival, Montenegro, Europe. This gave the band a lot more publicity resulting in public awareness.

After having performed in almost the entire half of the country in the year 2010, they ventured into the southern part of the country, doing a month long promotional tour in the city of Bengaluru at around end September 2011.

It is at this time period they recorded their singles “Loaded”, “Ride to Hell” and “I wanna Get that loving”. Soon, in the coming week they recorded “A new beginning”, on hearing the NEWS about an earthquake in their home town, claiming a lot of lives.

“Loaded”, “I wanna get that lovin’ again” and “A new beginning” were the only ones to be released.

End 2011 saw the vocalist venturing into other Asian countries namely Hong Kong and South Korea (With Silver Tears, Yamaha Asian Beats 2011).