Imperial Leisure Imperial Leisure Imperial Leisure are a ska / rock band from London, England. Influences include The Specials, Beastie Boys, Rage Against The Machine, Madness, Ozomatli, Youngblood Brass Band . Imperial Leisure started in 2001 as a 10 piece band. Previous to this, the eight members (Denis, Ben, Jeremy, Billy, Scott, AJ, Dan and Stu) where playing in a band called "Chewbacca". The name changed to Imperial Leisure when they added two brass players (Rob - Trumpet and Mark - Trombone). Imperial Leisure signed to 'Primary Talent' (live music agent) and 'Crucible Management' (band management) in 2004. Their first release was
Imperial pigeon al., and followed here. Four species of imperial pigeon are found in Philippines and Sulawesi. All have a distinct pale band across the centre of the tail, and a rich green or purple dorsum. This grouping shares characteristics and distribution with "Ptilinopus", and forms a link between the genera. The pink-belled ("D. poliocephala") and the white-bellied ("D. forsteni") imperial pigeon are similar and allopatric species. The Mindoro ("D. mindorensis") and the grey-headed ("D. radiata") imperial pigeons differ in size but are otherwise similar. The spotted imperial pigeon ("D. carola") is sympatric to "D. poliocephala", and though smaller, short tailed and