High Pigeons

High Pigeons is an original no-cover Rock Band. The lyrics are sung in Italian and theyr rock is flavored by prizes of metal, few sprayed of funk and a dust of poetry, all served on spicy sinths and Techno lines. Shows of High Pigeons are always an electrifying event, its on live events that the band unfolds best the energy and potential of its great musicians. The Band was first created by its founders Davide (voice & bass) and Marco (rhytm guitar) in fall 2006. The two longterm friends...

High Pigeons is an original no-cover Rock Band. The lyrics are sung in Italian and theyr rock is flavored by prizes of metal, few sprayed of funk and a dust of poetry, all served on spicy sinths and Techno lines. Shows of High Pigeons are always an electrifying event, its on live events that the band unfolds best the energy and potential of its great musicians. The Band was first created by its founders Davide (voice & bass) and Marco (rhytm guitar) in fall 2006. The two longterm friends were soon looking out for new talented and open minded musicians to create the project 'High Pigeons'. So,a few month later, Gibi (drums), an excellent and versatile drummer, freshly forged at the National Drumschool of Milano Italy, joined the Band. Followed by Toby (Keyboards) who just came back from a 7 years trip in the Philippines where he teached music at the European International School of Manila, and finally last but by no means least, jan (lead guitar) who directly came from the biggest stages of Barcellona Spain, where he was playing professionally and studying flamenco guitar for eleven years. High Pigeons were then ready to rock the world! In less then a year they compose, arrange and rearrange theyr actual show which started to fill both, swiss and italian clubs right from the start of the season 2007. Many concerts and events followed until, on June 2008, they won theyr first Band competition at 'Officina Musica' sponsored by Radio 3ii and Teleticino. This victory led to several appearances on local radios and tv's Still in June 2008 they performed on the prestigeous 'Euro08 UBS arena' as opening act for the quarter finals. December 2008 HP filmed theyr first promotional video clip 'datemi'. January 8. 09, The clip was officially blessed by a live-act in Lugano (Temus) where a crew from SKY TV (Channel 717) filmed theyr performance and interwieved the delighted crawd for a 20 min reportage about 'HP'...to watch february 09 on MusicBox, SKY TV (ch 717). The Name HIGH PIGEONS was inspired from a brasilian newspaper article: Brazilian prisoners use pigeons to get high! It was the dipping flight path of pigeons that first alerted prison guards. The birds were flying in and out of a prison in Marilia, Brazil, like any other day. No one thought anything of it, until they noticed the birds were struggling to fly - as if something was weighing them down. Guards caught some of them and found out what was slowing them down. The birds were drug runners - smuggling narcotics and cellphones in little pouches. The age-old use of homing pigeons (trained by the prisoners themselves) provided an ingenious way to skip the high-tech security human visitors faced. "We have sophisticated equipment to search people when they go in, but they avoided this by finding another way to bring in cellphones and drugs," prison director Luciano Gamateli told Globo TV. The homing pigeon had its heyday long ago as a messenger. Although no one seems to know exactly why, the birds can always find their way home. Trained in the prison and smuggled out by visitors, they would be saddled up with contraband and set free, only to find their way back to jail...