The Hype
 
We don’t know why we are here, but we do know how we are here.
 
Imperial Leisure wants you to have fun, it wants you to party, it wants you to let loose while simultaneously connecting. How you choose to live your life is entirely up to you and hopefully like the most of us, you have that opportunity.
 
Imperial Leisure will take how you live and for the duration of this set make it better. We want your body, your sweat, we want to cover you in champagne, we want to give you everything you’ve ever dreamed of. To be fair, we may not achieve that for you, but maybe, just maybe, you’ll wake up tomorrow and you might feel a little bit of that dream resonating, signaling the possibilities of something special happening down the line.
 
So how about the music? Imperial Leisure have been releasing albums since 2008: The Art of Saying Nothing 2008; Death To The One Trick Pony 2012; Lifestyle Brand 2015; Through The Mountain 2022. Some people liked it, some loved it, some hated it but that doesn’t matter right now, the music doesn’t matter, you matter, you matter to us deeply and we want you to be ok.
 
We do ska but you don’t have to like it, we do rock and roll but you don’t have to like it, we do hip hop you don’t have to like it, we will party and you don’t have to like that either, what we want is for you to like yourself, for you to love yourself so much that you don’t give a dam anymore and you’re having a good time.
 
 
The Back Story
 
In 2004, Imperial Leisure signed to the live music agent ‘Primary Talent’ and to the band management ‘Crucible Management’. Their first release was the CD EP ‘Untouchable’ on Dirty Records in 2005. The next release was a limited-edition vinyl ‘Great British Summertime’ and single ‘Man On The Street’ on ORG Records.
 
In 2007, Imperial Leisure and their management company set up their own record label and music company, Steamroller Music Ltd. Employing other industry professionals and securing private investment for the support of the forthcoming release of their début album.
 
In 2008 they released four singles with national and local radio play, including BBC Radio One, BBC 6 Music, XFM, Absolute Radio. During this year, Imperial Leisure also played many festivals across the UK including the Dance Stage at Glastonbury and the Red Bull stage at Bestival. 
‘The Art Of Saying Nothing’ was Imperial Leisure's first album released on Steamroller Music, with the album launching to a sold-out event at the Scala London.
 
The Front Story
 
Since the following years of more releases, parties, gigs and festivals, Imperial Leisure have become an inhouse band for a selection of independent and major festivals such as The Little Orchard, Boomtown Fair, Secret Garden Party and 2000 Trees.
 
Born from school friendships and humble beginnings, the London party band Imperial Leisure have continued to build from strength to strength. Using the influences from around the world, to evolve their style around the reputation for delivering fun and high energy live performances. With the latest release ‘Through the Mountain’ now streaming world-wide, we would like to announce, once again, as we have many times before, Imperial Leisure are Back On Tour.
 
For bookings and general queries please contact band@imperial-leisure.co.uk

All purpose writer & arcane artist, usually kantele player and percussionist.

Project Lono is a collaborative experiment between electronic musician S.J. Forth and poet Bob Beagrie, who are exploring the integration of the spoken word with original music and sound scapes. They perform many of these tracks live at various spoken word and poetry events. These tracks are mainly from the second album 'Dindsencha'. Their first album, 'Briers',  was released in the summer of 2012.
'How Man Was Made Again' features backing vocals courtesy of Henwen, sampled from from 'Rissognolet' (Echoes 2006), 'Prodigal' features an original Piano score composed for the poem by 'Glenn Maltman', 'Green Spell', 'Holding Liquid' and 'Forest Call' feature the far out funk guitar sounds of Carl Walton, 'Lady of the House of Sleep' features throat singing over and undertones by the amazing Kev Howard, 'A Lesson In Letting Go' and 'Slow Recovery' both feature the sweet melancholic guitar of Glenn McDougall.

We are proud to be a part of the underground artistic scene in the mythical land of Teesside where creative genius thrives like fungi through the post-industrial urban gloaming. We hope you dig this stuff.


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