Alternative rock and post-hardcore group
This Drama is a Tenerife band that connected Canarian alternative rock with national and international circuits, from Villa de Madrid to the US label Deep Elm Records.
According to information released by the Canary Islands Government’s Deputy Ministry of Culture, This Drama began as a quartet in 2005 and added a second guitarist two years later. In 2008 it won first prize at the 30th Rock Villa de Madrid awards after a selection from more than seven hundred bands. Its debut San Diego XIII was released in Spain and reissued internationally by Deep Elm Records.
Their importance lies in writing one of the most visible pages of independent Canarian rock in the 2000s: a national award, BBC 6 airplay from Bruce Dickinson and an international contract. The case shows how a Tenerife band could move beyond the island circuit through festivals, contests and alternative record networks.
The band works from the intensity of alternative rock, with guitars, bass, drums and voice serving direct songs. Sources stress emotion, intensity and spontaneity over technical display, a trait that explains its reception in national and foreign rock media.
Their transmission rests on the international circulation of San Diego XIII, London club dates from 2006, local and mainland festivals and connections with independent labels. This makes them a reference for reading the external professionalisation of Canarian alternative rock.
The group forms in Tenerife as a quartet.
It performs its first international concerts in London venues.
It wins first prize at the 30th edition.
San Diego XIII is reissued internationally by the US label.
Tenerife
Since the twentieth century
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Gran Canaria
First performance in 1969; first album in 1970
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Gran Canaria
Active between 1965 and 1972; Ciclos was released in 1974
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