The Mins is a Georgian (Europe) Alternative / New Progressive Rock band established in 2011 by Zviad Mgebrishvili. The band played its first live gig in 2011 on Altervision Newcomers. After that the band started to work hard on their repertoire. They mostly perform original songs and only rarely covers. The main songwriter in the band is Zviad Mgebrishili. The band has four music videos on the following songs: "Blind World", "O.W.L.", "My Lover is a Killer" and "I Don't Give a Foot". Zviad Mgebrishvili was participating in the TV show Akhali Khma [The Voice of Georgia] in 2013 very successfully (5 stages). The band has performed on many festivals and concerts. The band had their first big solo concert in Tbilisi Eventhall 26 May 2014, where they had presentation of their first EP, named "Blind World" (released same year, included 5 songs). The band has an honor to be warm up of "Faithless" (Tbilisi Summer Set 2014) and "Archive" (Tbilisi Open Air/Altervision 2015, where apart from Archive - Placebo, Beth Hart and Black Label Society were the headliners). Zaza Mgebrishvili has left the band in 2015 and new bass player and backing vocal of the band is Nika Abesadze who used to play with Zviad Mgebrishvili early years in the university rock band "Sunny Universe". The band is now recording their first Album "First Minute" in the Bravo Records sound recording studio that will be released in early 2016. The Band consists of following members: Zviad Mgebrishvili (Vocal, Guitar, Sampling, FX) Nika Abesadze (Bass, Vocal, FX) Giorgi Tetsoshvili (Drums). Live Performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Przo0Rs8Dd4 Offical Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMGNkdk7fz8
Gigs: 7/10/2011 Altervision Newcomers 9/06/2012 ILIAUNI Rock Fest 26/01/2013 Concert in Divani 02/03/2013 Concert in MagtiClub 30/03/2013 FanArt Fest 10/05/2013 "Soundcheck" Festival 29/06/2013 Concert in Divani & Clip Presentation "My Lover Is A Killer" 17/09/2013 Free Uni welcome live (Altervision group) 20/09/2013 The Mins & Mao "Batumi summer set" last day with "Faithless" 06/10/2013 Tbilisoba Live Fest 10/12/2013 The Voice (Live Performance) 13/12/2013 Charity Live in Night Office 01/01/2014 The Mins & Mao New Year Live 25/01/2014 The Mins & ARA in Divani 26/05/2014 Tbilisi Eventhall (The Mins Solo Live) (Blind World EP presentation) 04/11/2014 Tbilisi State University Live with The Jetbird 20/02/2015 Unplugged in Indie Rock Bar 15/05/2015 Positive Festival 24/05/2015 Tbilisi Eventhall Acoustic Set (Book and Music Fest) 08/06/2015 TSU charity Live 04/07/2015 Tbilisi Open Air 2015 Supporting Act of "Archive" 19/09/2015 Tbilisi Prog Fest 2015 25/09/2015 Free Uni welcome live 14/10/2015 Mtskhetoba 17/10/2015 Tbilisoba 08/11/2015 Charkviani tribute TSU 15/11/2015 Charkviani tribute (Tbilisi Concert Hall) 27/12/2015 Batumi live 28/12/2015 Tbilisi Live New Year
The band is not a signed artist of any record label and continues to stay independent band, however having producer (Mirian Kululashvili: manager@themins.ge).
