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IRENE

new album due 2008

About Me

Irene Gonzales was our grandmother. She inspired and encouraged. She had passion for life, and loved us unconditionally. All three of us had been playing and performing at an early age. Oscar and I had been in bands together, and always felt a musical bond. We started Jamming with our younger brother Hector, and even though our influences and styles weren't the same, we liked what was coming out. IRENE became our name without debate. In part as a tribute to the person our grandmother was. In part because we were deep into what we where doing. We had bands in the past, but this was it. All or nothing, into the unknown creating and pushing ourselves and our music. We will not relent.Dan Oviedo (guitar/vocals)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/25/2004
Band Website: irenemusic.net
Band Members: Hector Oviedo- Bass, Oscar T. Oviedo- Drums, Dan Oviedo- Guitar/Vocals
Influences: Clutch, Mars Volta, Archers of Loaf, Rage Against the Machine, Fantomas, The Beatles, The Locust, Velvet Teen, Canderia, Infectious Grooves, Suicidle Tendencies, Led Zepplin, Faith no More, Red Hot Chili Peppers, System of a Down, Bad Brains, Misfits, Melvins, Mudhoney, and the list goes on. We dig on anything that has Heart/Soul and Compasion for the art-form of music.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Finally in the Studio

Good day all! Just wanted to update everyone on what we've been up to. We just finished forty hours of studio work on our new album, tentatively titled "Make it Right." Things went really well and my ...
Posted by IRENE on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:13:00 PST

Track it

We’ve been working on the next Irene album and were all pretty psyched about it. If you’ve been to any of our shows recently then you got an ear full of our new material.  We have abo...
Posted by IRENE on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:46:00 PST

Latest news on IRENE***

Time has past and wounds have healed. IRENE is out and about playing shows and working on a new album due to be out 2008. We are very exited about our new material and eager to put it out on the scene...
Posted by IRENE on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:20:00 PST

NEVER SAY NEVER

Yeah, I was having a chat with Guy Swartz, who is a great local musician and one of the creators of the annual south by due east, and he asked if Irene could perform at this years fest. He's always be...
Posted by IRENE on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 01:53:00 PST

What's new

So far, Irene is no longer performing. It was somewhat mutual. Anyways, I loved playing in this band, and hope they enjoyed it as much as I did. We still jam from time to time, so hopefully we may pla...
Posted by IRENE on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 11:14:00 PST

Latest News

So it's been a while since we've given any news, and there's no better day than today to catch you up on IRENE. First off, my younger brother Hector (the bass player) quit the band, and has been...
Posted by IRENE on Tue, 06 Jun 2006 01:15:00 PST

The Seatttle Stranger

      So I tried, but I couldn't get a show in Seattle for Wednesday, Sept.14th. The club we played at last time had closed, and reopened under a different name, and they weren't i...
Posted by IRENE on Thu, 15 Sep 2005 03:27:00 PST

To Portland

Whats up? Were in Everett, WA as I write. Dan is trying to keep the blogs in chronological order and writing in present tense as if he is actually writing on the day of and then changing the date to...
Posted by IRENE on Thu, 15 Sep 2005 02:44:00 PST

Last weekend

Last weekend was slow. We had Friday night off, Dan tried real hard to get a gig, and we even had a small chance the night of, but we werent able to get the hook up. So after parking round the Berkel...
Posted by IRENE on Thu, 15 Sep 2005 06:35:00 PST

Aptos, CA

       So my brothers and I spent Friday walking around Berkeley, CA. Saturday, we drove to Vallejo, Ca, and spent all day chillin at a state park. The weather was perfec...
Posted by IRENE on Thu, 15 Sep 2005 02:10:00 PST