Local Business Owner Lands Headlining Gothic Theatre Show
Denver, Colorado (Jan 5, 2015) – Adrienne Osborn, a world-ranked waterskier and software developer turned full-time musician, is starting out the new year with her first headlining theatre concert with her pop/rock band, Adrienne O.
In 2000 Osborn moved from Florida, where she was pursuing professional water skiing and developing web software, to Boulder for a job with a dot-com company. When the company closed its local offices, Adrienne recalled her old dreams and struck out on a radically different career path, founding her vocal training studio, Performance High, in 2009. The studio now has six staff in three Front Range locations, including Osborn’s bandmate Justin Leighton Long who helps students with recording, producing, and songwriting. Osborn has also released two educational products for singers and performers: Nail Every Note and Zen of the Stage.
The show, scheduled for Friday January 23 at the Gothic Theatre, is a dream come true for Osborn. “I started my music career late,” says Osborn. “But I was inspired by Colorado-based jazz vocalist Rene Marie, who started singing at age 42 and now tours internationally. In fact, she was just nominated for a Grammy. We should all remember it’s never too late to go for it! This show is more than I could have imagined a few years ago, and it’s only the beginning.”
Adrienne O plays at the Gothic Theatre with Chemistry Club, Monroe Monroe, and One Flew West on Friday, January 23. Tickets are available directly from the bands at https://www.adrienneo.com or through the Gothic Theatre website.
About Adrienne O
Adrienne O (“Adrienne Oh”) is a pop/rock band from Denver influenced by artists like Muse, Depeche Mode, and OneRepublic. Vocalist Adrienne Osborn, a record-breaking two-time national champion water skier and former software developer, made a major career change to become the musician and vocal coach that’s always been living inside of her.
The band’s music has been featured on 93.3’s Locals Only, 107x FM, The Colorado Sound, Channel 8 TV’s Denver Loft Sessions, Literati Records, Callywood Radio, and KGNU Innervision Top 30 Countdowns. The band has played at festivals and venues such as the Bluebird and Gothic Theatres, the South Park Music Festival, and the Denver Post Underground Music Showcase. Adrienne also makes regular morning appearances on KYGO 98.5 and has been interviewed on podcasts such as Super Change Your Life, You Leading You, and Bond Appetit.
For further information, contact Adrienne Osborn at 303-819-0595 or [email protected].
For more information, contact:
Adrienne Osborn
2920 Ingalls St
Wheat Ridge, CO 80214
303-819-0595 | [email protected] / https://www.adrienneo.com
Adrienne O Reboots – and Lands Headlining Gothic Show
Denver, Colorado (Jan 5, 2015) – Adrienne, the vocalist/bassist of Denver pop/rock band Adrienne O, has given up her bass guitar to focus solely on being the band’s dynamic front woman – a move that has resulted in the band’s first headlining concert at a major venue.
The band has also eliminated the use of tracks, adding a fifth musician where necessary to provide keys and synth. Fans who knew and loved the band as it was before are surprised to find that not only the performance but also the music has a new spirit and dynamism.
“I love playing bass, but I was too tied down on stage while playing and singing,” said Osborn. “Now that I’m free to move, and don’t have to think about doing two things at once, I’m having a lot more fun. People are really responding to that.”
Adrienne O looks forward to performing the live debut of their anticipated song, “Barcelona”, along with several other new songs and the return of a reworked fan favorite, “Little Vampire.” “Barcelona” is a song about escaping oneself and one’s world informed by Adrienne’s experiences living, studying, working, and partying in Spain.
Adrienne O will be playing with Chemistry Club, Monroe Monroe, and One Flew West on Friday, January 23.
About Adrienne O
Adrienne O (“Adrienne Oh”) is a female-fronted indie pop/rock band from Denver influenced by artists like Florence + the Machine and OneRepublic. Vocalist Adrienne Osborn was previously one of the top 40 water skiers in the world, and a dot-com software developer. Now she is a voice coach and a parkour novice who inspires fans to live deeply and without fear by exemplifying authentic strength and charisma, both personally and musically.
Adrienne O and their music have been featured on 93.3’s Locals Only show, 107x, The Colorado Sound, Channel 8 TV’s Denver Loft Sessions, Literati Records podcasts, Callywood Radio, multiple KGNU Innervision Top 30 Countdowns, and the 2013 BolderBOULDER Bootlegs CD.
A single from Adrienne O’s first EP, “Two and Two,” won COMBO’s songwriting contest in the Pop category. Another song from their first EP, “Someone Like Me,” was placed in full-length feature film A Remarkable Life.
For further information, contact Adrienne Osborn at 303-819-0595 or [email protected].
Jose had curly hair and was quiet, but very smart. He didn’t talk to me or look at me. I had a crush on him.
We had physics class together. Actually, we were in all our classes together at Instituto No. 1 de Basauri, Vizcaya, Pais Vasco, Spain. Instead of students changing to different classrooms each hour, teachers changed to different classrooms. So the naturally ripe petri dish of high school clique culture was amplified as everyone’s time was spent closed in one room with the same 30 students.
I was there for a year – a very grey-green year of hanging mist. They had a special word for that constant half-mist, half-rain that floats in the air during coastal Basque winters: sirimiri. The 100% humidity – the clouds touching down to shining streets – that chills you to the bone no matter how well you dress.
And I didn’t know how to dress. Certainly not for the weather – I was a nerdy American girl from Phoenix, Arizona without a budget to shop European. But also not in style. If I was uncool in high school, I was a disaster in Spain. I wore maroon tights. And baggy sweatshirts. And mom jeans. To top it off, I was putting about 3 pounds a month on my 5’2” frame as I ate sweet palmeras daily on my way to school. My jeans were getting tight, in a bad way.
But back to the story about Jose.
In the spring, the school organized a 5-day class trip to Barcelona. I signed up, of course. It sounded warm.
No one slept on the overnight train ride south – not the students, and no other travelers unfortunate enough to be sharing a car with us. There were card games, there was lots of running around, there was lots of alcohol. We arrived outside our hostel at about 10am, the overwhelmed philosophy teacher trying to corral 30 spastic teenagers free from home.
We were hours early for checkin. We were all milling about. For some reason, Jose looked at me and said, “Nos vamos, eh?”
So we left. We just walked off.
We found the nearest subway station and started hopping on trains and getting off at random stops. Sometimes we emerged into boring residential neighborhoods, but we also saw the Sagrada Familia church, went to Parc Guell with the curvy tiled benches, had coffee, ate tortilla de patata. And we walked around the pristine Olympic facilities, just built for use in a few months.
I don’t remember when we got back to the hostel. The philosophy teacher was incensed. But we did it again the next day, and the next. We found underground bars open til daylight. I smoked my first cigarette and some hash. We went to a sex shop, watched dancers, and saw nasty videos in a tiny cabin. We walked on the wet cobblestone of La Rambla at 3 in the morning when all the flower stalls were closed and there were no mimes or live statues posing for change.
We never kissed. We never even held hands. Honestly, we didn’t even really talk much.
And after five days, when we got back up to school, it was almost like it had never happened.
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1996
I returned to Barcelona four years later. I had finished college and was doing the obligatory backpacking trip around Europe, except with virtually no money. I spent a total of $2000 in 7 weeks of backpacking, and that included the airfare and Eurail pass. I usually crashed on couches or slept on overnight trains. In spite of that, I was alone a lot. I was homesick after 7 weeks and came home to try to figure out what to do with my life.
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2005
I got a job. And another job. And a first husband, and a first divorce, and a second husband. My company got acquired by another company – with offices in Barcelona. I managed to score a couple of work trips.
On the first trip, I was propositioned by a married Spanish colleague whose wife was pregnant. I went to the Old Town and wandered around and let myself get lost in the dark, gothic alleys and the plazas, some of which had rows of bullet pockmarks at eye level. I visited the Sagrada Familia and Parc Guell and remembered Jose, wondered why he chose me to hang out with.
On the second trip, I worked 80-hour weeks. The project I was leading was sinking. I didn’t see the Sagrada Familia. I didn’t see go anywhere or do anything. I needed to save the project.
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April 2006
The project failed. My boss was fired and my entire office laid off. I left for Spain the very next day. Straight to Barcelona, then after a few days, to Ibiza. I sat on beaches, I listened to club music at pop-up bars on the sand, I let the last two years of stress and anger and guilt drift into the Mediterranean. I tried not to think about what was next, but I knew I didn’t want to be a software developer any more. And, not surprisingly, my husband and I were having trouble. Working 80-100 hour weeks for the past year had taken its toll.
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September 2006
Four months later my husband and I returned to Barcelona and Ibiza. We made up for everything in a haze of ecstasy and house music and sandy beaches and shockingly expensive drinks. We convinced a license plate office to press us a real – and illegal – license plate that said “Catalunya.” (Catalunya is the province in which Barcelona is located.) It was all going to be okay.
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2007
Or maybe not. We bought a big house at the very peak of the market. The recession hit and we promptly started bleeding money. For the next four years.
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2011
Before we were completely broke, I took another dirt-cheap trip to Europe, crashing on couches. At the SONAR festival in Barcelona I saw one of my favorite bands ever, Underworld. A cute, curly-haired French guy flirted with me. As I don’t speak French and his English wasn’t very good, we conversed mostly in Spanish. He liked swing dancing, which is weird at an EDM festival, but he was entertaining and persistent, so I played along. A slow dawn found us walking around outside trying to find a train, and when we did, we simply said goodbye. Like with Jose from 20 years earlier, we never kissed. We didn’t exchange numbers or even full names.
We are also working on a much-changed version of the song for our next EP.
lyrics:
hotel rooms and borrowed beds she indulges while i pretend that if i have enough to drink there will be no room to think about the end or who i am
sleeping til the sun slants low narrow alleys, hidden plazas, don’t know where i go she lets me disappear a day, a week, a year far from home, all alone
barcelona let me in i am tired of who i’ve been let me be somebody else barcelona give me shelter in your shadows and your spells so i can leave myself again
before the new century made her shine we ran away and we stayed up all through the night just picking random subway stops not knowing where we would get off finding life at morning light now it’s a layered memory she’s my sagrada family a new deja vu each time around
barcelona let me in i am tired of who i’ve been let me be somebody else barcelona give me shelter in your shadows and your spells before i have to be myself again
let me try another life lose me on a taxi ride put my pieces back together tell me we will live forever
barcelona let me in i am tired of who i’ve been let me be somebody else barcelona give me shelter in your shadows and your spells before i have to be myself again
Three songs by Adrienne O — “Take It In,” “Take It One Day,” and “Back to the Shadows” — are featured on Women of Substance Radio, an internet radio station featuring female artists. The songs will debut on the New Music Show and will then be put into rotation.
I have been nominated for The Colorado Sound’s “Fan Favorite – Female Vocal Performance” for 2013 along with a bunch of other women whose voices I look up to such as Su Charles, Rachel James, Lisa Bell, Lindsay Saunders, Cassie Taylor… WOW!
Our song “Someone Like Me” from the SUPERCHROMATIC EP is going to be included on the soundtrack of the romantic drama “A Remarkable Life” that will be playing 1000 theaters in Europe. The film is set to be released in theaters on December 17th.
Our single “Two and Two” won in the Pop category of the Colorado Music Business Organization’s songwriting contest! A Master CD will be made and COMBO’s business partner, CODA, Inc., will be making copies to distribute to the music professionals at the Durango Songwriters Expo October 3-5.