The Balonguines Band

The Balonguines Band

MUSICIANS:


Ezequiel Alonso (Eze):  Guitar, vocals 

Nicolás Vives (Nico): Lead guitar

Juan Victor Belén (Jonvi Belén): Bass

Francisco Barberá (Paco): Drums


 
INFLUENCES:

Rock bands from the 70´s such as the Eagles, the Creedence Clearwater Revival, the Rolling Stones, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Deep Purple, Etc…

 

HISTORY: Ezequiel and I, Nico, were friends from childhood. At the age of 12 years Ezequiel first learned to play from his brother Pedro Pascual, and then he taught me. When we had 16 years, one of our first gigs was during the Youth Week organized by the council in Abanilla, and later on, we manage to reach the 2nd position in a folk music contest in the Auditorium of Murcia. By those days we were playing protest songs with Spanish traditional guitars and we wanted to form a group of folk music with rock influences, so we decided to train our friends to sing and play instruments, but, despite of the fact that it was big fun, we fail to emerge from anonymity. Then later on, Ezequiel integrate the group of choruses and dances of Abanilla and I was forced to move to La Murada for professional purposes so we give up the rehearsals. In 2007 I bought my first electric guitar and Ezequiel pared to buy another one so we get on together for special occasions in our spare time (when we join together for dinners etc…), so the idea of reforming a band came…we comment it to our friends Juan Victor and Paco that finally join us, despite of the fact that it was much more difficult for them because they had never picked up a guitar or a battery in their life. That was 6 months ago…

 

NEXT GIGS:


Abanilla Rock festival the 8 of May of 2009

 


OUR TEN FAVORITES SONG EVER :

Any song from the Eagles, the Creedence Clearwater Revival althought we like modern spanish bands such as Jarabe de Palo, and some others...

 

If you want to contact us:
966779378 – 670351350
nico@remove-thisfotosnico.es

 

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