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Irene Biography
Irene grew into a full scale band quite spontaneously in 2005. The members were all friends from various bands hanging out in a local pub in GÃ¶teborg, Sweden. Some songs that Tobias Isaksson (aka Bobby) had written just couldn't wait to be performed live. The people that did the first show wanted to stick around and by the autumn of 2005 Irene was an octet with semi-permanent members. Shortly after that the record label Labrador signed the band.
A critically acclaimed debut album called Apple Bay was released in 2006. It was an upbeat, super-short, 24 minute tribute to the 60's sound with most instruments recorded live. Irene became keen UK travellers and Apple Bay was licensed in the USA, Australia, Thailand and Taiwan and distributed via Labrador's associates in countries all over the world.
In the spring 2007 tours of England, France, Spain and Germany made Irene aspire to take the music to a new level. The result was another timeless pop effort of 27 minutes titled Long Gone Since Last Summer. New members were added along the way and although the album was due in Sweden less than one year after the debut it displayed a band with brand new qualities.
The first single By Your Side was instantly praised on Pitchfork and Irene got a worldwide blog hype peaking at 13 on Elbo.ws. Great album reviews and more international attention followed and the rest is Google history. The album was licenced in the USA, Thailand and Taiwan.But more than anything, Irene has to be experienced live. Tours of Scandinavia, the UK, Holland and Spain have already been undertaken and more will follow, along with another recording session in 2008.
The members of Irene remain beach crooners, lounge punks and next door nice guys.
Irene Discography
BABY I LOVE YOUR WAY
Cd Single 2006
LITTLE THINGS (THAT TEAR US APART)
Cd Ep 2006
APPLE BAY
Cd Album 2006
CHRISTMAS ON THE BEACH
Download Single 2006
BY YOUR SIDE
Download Single 2007
LONG GONE SINCE LAST SUMMER
Cd Album 2007
LITTLE LOVIN'
Download Single 2007
By Your Side Video
Directed by You Saved Me

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Member Since: 11/27/2005
Band Website: irene.nu
Band Members: Bobby (lead vocals and guitar), Bernard (guitar), Glenn (drums), Neil (bass), Mack (piano and organ), Brent (piano, organ and vocals), Nolan (saxophone), Eileen (trumpet), Nancy (doo-wop vocals), Phil (doo-wop vocals) and Betty-Lou (doo-wop vocals). We're an entourage of eight to twelve! The more the sunnier! :)
Influences: 60's indie hits, 70's lounge pop, 80's and 90's guitar pop, Northern soul, the girl-group era, the American west coast sound, crooner pop, contemporary indie pop and much more.
Sounds Like: Summer fun has never been more depressing. Or the other way around.
Record Label: Labrador (main), Twentyseven Records (USA) etc...
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Eurosonic and Spain

We're very proud to announce that we'll visit the Eurosonic festival in Groningen, The Neatherlands in January. We'll play Friday 11th. We're also happy to inform you that we'll do a fu...
Posted by Irene on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 07:37:00 PST

Long Gone Since Last Summer

Long Gone Since Last Summer was released in Scandinavia, Spain, Germany, Austria and Switzerland in September. It has also been licenced in Taiwan by Magnum Music and Thailand via Jointt. The record i...
Posted by Irene on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 05:38:00 PST

Irene in the USA!

We're happy to announce that our album Apple Bay is out in the USA! Our record label there is the New York based Twentyseven Records. In a few months they will also release Long Gone Since Last Summer...
Posted by Irene on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:56:00 PST

Irene short film

A while ago the the site Last.fm asked us to record a short video documentary about Irene to put on their page. As we decided to shoot and edit the film ourselves we look, talk and act like genuine ne...
Posted by Irene on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:53:00 PST

Pitchfork premiere: By Your Side

Aloha! I'm proud and happy to write that our new single By Your Side had its world premiere on PITCHFORK today! The official release date is August 1st, but you can already d...
Posted by Irene on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 02:23:00 PST

Album finished!

Hello everybody. After a month of sweat, laughter, beer and late nights in the studio the new Irene album was finally mastered today. It's called "Long Gone Since Last Summer" and is due for Swedish r...
Posted by Irene on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:11:00 PST

New album recording

I'm happy to say that we've come a long way in the making of our second album. Two new songs have already been recorded and 12 more hits are being rehearsed right now! The recordin...
Posted by Irene on Tue, 22 May 2007 09:31:00 PST

Baby we love to tour!

Aloha! Here's the latest update for our spring on the road! FRANCE AND UK (MINI TOUR SUPPORTING I'M FROM BARCELONA)Booked by Monstera23.01 Paris - La Maroquinerie24.01 London - ULU ...
Posted by Irene on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 10:22:00 PST

Irene on Popfrenzy!

We're very proud to announce that Popfrenzy will release our album Apple Bay in Australia and New Zealand! This means that we're labelmates with great bands like CSS, Camera Obscura and The Clien...
Posted by Irene on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 05:29:00 PST

Labrador 100 - out February 14th!

On February 14th our lovely record label Labrador celebrates its release #100! It's called Labrador 100 - A Complete History Of Popular Music and includes 100 songs in a beautiful 4 CD box set! Your f...
Posted by Irene on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 05:40:00 PST