Before there was Coldplay and their signature stadium lit up by the audience's phones/glowsticks and Foo Fighters' headbanging-inducing music, closer home there was Parikrama, a Delhi-based rock outfit, making their mark with live performances. The six-member band, which is proving that rock 'n' roll makes you age like fine wine, will be sharing music from the past 28 years with audiences in Mumbai, along with some new tunes they have been working on, this weekend.

Ask founder and keyboardist Subir Malik his earliest memories of the band, and he goes back to the beginning — when they met at a college festival in 1990, like so many other bands from Delhi. In his final year, Malik, who was four months away from joining his family business of selling motor parts in Delhi's Kashmiri Gate, met his future bandmates Nitin Malik (vocalist) and Chintan Kalra (former bassist), in Kanpur, who were part of one of the participating bands. Yet another band comprised rock pioneer Amit Sehgal. Too much of a coincidence? Sonam Sherpa (lead guitarist) joined in June 1991, when he came to Delhi University to audition for the music quota at Malik's college, because he wanted to try playing a guitar of "foreign" make, Malik reveals. In the years that followed, Saurabh Choudhary (guitarist), Gaurav Balani (bass) and Srijan Mahajan (drummer) joined the outfit.