Turn It Up To Eleven

Popular rock band Girish and The Chronicles on lighting up Delhi's Hard Rock Cafe, opening for Guns N' Roses, and taking their sound from the hills of Sikkim to the global stage of America's Got Talent with a fiery rendition of Adele's 'Set Fire to the Rain'

- ADITHI REENA AJITH

This past weekend, Delhi's well-known rock haunt Hard Rock Cafe transformed into a scene straight out of the glam metal era, as the popular four-piece band Girish and The Chronicles (GATC) brought the house down with a set packed with tight riffs, soaring vocals, and unapologetically loud rock and roll.

The Bengaluru-based group—featuring frontman Girish Pradhan on vocals, his brother Yogesh on bass, Suraz Karki on guitar, and Nagen Mongranti on drums—played to a packed house. Full venues are no novelty for the ensemble.

"The response was more overwhelming than usual, for sure! People knowing what you sing and singing along—it's what it's all about at the end of the day," says GATC.

Straight from the hills of Gangtok, Sikkim, the band has now taken over global stages too. Just last month, they performed on America's Got Talent (AGT) on American television—one of the world's biggest talent shows.

Commanding the AGT stage with the same confidence they bring to every show, GATC made waves with a hard rock reimagining of English singer Adele's 'Set Fire to the Rain' that brought both the judges and audience to their feet.