The Pigeon Detectives biography
The Pigeon Detectives are an English indie rock They have been championed by such well-known DJs as Steve Lamacq and Jo Whiley, and performed at the Reading and Leeds Festivals in 2006, where they were tagged "the band most likely to leap to the main stage in 2007" in an NME review. However, the band returned to the festivals in 2007 and again performed on the NME stage.
They supported Dirty Pretty Things while they toured in spring 2006. In early November 2006 they supported fellow Leeds band Kaiser Chiefs, who are known to be fans of the band. On 8 July 2007, they played on the Radio 1 NME Stage in front of thousands at T in the Park. The performance was televised and shown later that day on BBC3. They went on to perform their biggest show ever at Oxegen 2008 which was beamed around Europe on MTV. The band also successfully completed UK, Ireland, European, Japanese and US tours as well as dozens of festivals, taking the band into the elite category as a "Platinum"-selling recording artist.
Up to the end of 2008 the band had released two albums, selling more than 500,000 copies in the UK. The band took time out in 2009, in the summer of 2010 they flew out to New York to start recording their third album (Up Guards And At 'Em), which was later released and planned tours and festivals for 2011 and 2012.
History
Wait For Me
The Pigeon Detectives are signed to the Independent label Dance To The Radio with whom their debut album,
Wait for Me, was released on CD, 12" heavyweight vinyl and digital download on 28 May 2007. The album, recorded in autumn 2006, has been produced by Will Jackson and was recorded in the band's home town of Leeds.
An early version of the album leaked to underground music download sites across the internet on 11 April 2007. The album charted straight in at Number 3 on the UK Top 40 achieving Gold status soon after release.
On 14 August 2007 the band appeared on the Jo Whiley show and performed in the Live Lounge, doing their current single "Take Her Back" and a cover of Avril Lavigne's "Girlfriend".
During September 2007, the band played at JerseyLive. The festival (held in Jersey, one of the Channel Islands) was a weekend event also including The Fratellis and Kasabian in the line up. The band also played Oxegen, an Irish festival in county Kildare, in July 2007 and performed again in July 2008.
In September 2007 it was announced that The Pigeon Detectives had been nominated for Best New Act at the Q Awards, but they lost out to The Enemy.
The band supported Kaiser Chiefs on three of their November/December UK tour dates, these include 1 December 2007 at the Manchester Evening News Arena and 15 December 2007 at Earls Court in London.
A cover of the Huey Lewis and the News track "The Power of Love" appears on the Radio 1 Established 1967 compilation CD.
The band finished the Wait For Me campaign and kick started their 2nd album Emergency campaign in May 2008 with two consecutive gigs at Millennium Square in their home town Leeds playing to 15,000 fans over the two nights.
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