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 units "troy ounce" "may" still be used for the weights of precious stones and metals. The original railways (many built in the Victorian era) are a big user of imperial units, with distances officially measured in miles and yards or miles and chains, and also feet and inches, and speeds are in miles per hour, although more recent systems are metric, and London Underground uses metric. Most British people still use imperial units in everyday life for distance (miles, yards, feet and inches) and volume in some cases (especially milk and beer in pints) but rarely for canned or bottled soft