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Location : Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia

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Band Biography :
With spare-backing tracks and emotional, wrenching vocal, Everybody Loves Irene
(ELI) play music for times when ecstasy wears off and the tingle becomes a
chill. It’s a dance noir for those too world-weary to move. ELI was born in
2001. It all started with a band named Gooton, consisting Yudhi (Guitarist),
Dimas (Bassist), Mulyadi (Drummer). All three grew to become friends in the same
scene that popped up several britpop’s gigs, popular in Jakarta at that time.
However, the band went without permanent vocalist. After some time, the boys met
Irene, a girl with remarkable voice. Her voice trully made a break. All the boys
loved it. Even more, everybody loves Irene! This in fact is the exact sentence
that became the name of the band Everybody Loves Irene. She soon became the main
icon of this band. ELI’s music might sound like “seen as a really unhappy
world”. This would make them a shoe-gaze-pop touch band. Such dark ambience was
started when they launched “Deepdied”, the song that made them connoted with
groups of the same genre as Portishead, Loveage, Bjork, Emiliana Torrini, Tori
Amos, Fiona Apple, etc. Their music quality got even more enriched when Windi
(Keyboardist) joined the band. This is the last, perfect format for the band to
produce new, great songs like “Hate Sunday”, “Try Try Try”, “Uncertainty &
Anxiety”, and “Gravity Always Win”. In 2004, they decide to produce promo CD-r
with photocopied sleeve independently. Their first musical journey in the mini
Ep is called “Uncertainty & Anxiety” and “All the Sorrow in this World”. If
you’re making out at home or pining home alone, Everybody Loves Irene is the
most appropriate one to leisure. The band’s line-up: Yohanna Erine Putri - vocal
Yudhi Arfani - guitar Dimas Andinityo - bass Mulyadi T. Imam - drum Windi
Jatmiko - add. keyboard & harmonica Discography: Uncertainty, Anxiety, and All
the Sorrow In This World - mini ep cd (Self-release - Jakarta / September 2004)
- Repertoire: Fade In, Hate Sunday, Try Try Try, Gravity Always Win, Uncertainty
& Anxiety, Fade Out Brontak Chapter 01 - compilation cd & tape (Brontakzine
record - Medan / Agustus 2004) Info at: www.brontakzine.com - Song: Try Try Try
EVERYBODY LOVES IRENE management: c/o Bowo, Jl. Karet Belakang III #8, Jakarta
12920, Indonesia. Email: everybody_loves_irene@yahoo.com Phone: +62 852 1606
1766 / +62 856 852 1415 (Bowo) Website: www.everybodylovesirene.tk (you can
download the mp3s here) Join the mailing list:
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/everybody_loves_irene atau kirim email ke
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