Pignoise is a Spanish rock band comprising three members: Álvaro on guitar and vocals, Polo on drums, and Pablo on bass.
Beginnings After Álvaro, a former soccer player for teams such as Getafe CF and Real Madrid, suffered a serious injury, he began to play guitar and compose songs during his rehabilitation period. He finally quit football and created a band called PIG NOISE. The group later used many of the songs he composed while in rehabilitation. Later Polo, another former soccer player for Real Zaragoza and other teams, joined the group. The last to join was Pablo, a student who had come from Asturias to Madrid to study theater. Their popularity increased sharply after appearing in a very well known Spanish show, Los hombres de Paco.
During the elections in the Basque Autonomous Community the band played in a meeting created by the conservative Spanish political party Partido Popular. The band has been heavily criticized after that, but during an interview for 20minutos.es, the bandmembers said that they thought it was just an event for young people created by Partido Popular and concluded saying that they'll never play in a political meeting again.
Musical style and influences Pignoise is described as a pop punk band. Even though they have been seen wearing NOFX shirts in music videos, their light punk rock characteristics and their predominant pop music sound makes them clearly a pop punk band. They may also be considered pop rock or alternative rock. The band cites Ramones, blink-182, Green Day, NoFX, Slick Shoes, Allister and The Offspring as some of their main influences.
Discography The group has released seven discs. The first two were Melodías Desafinadas (Out-of-tune Melodies) and Esto No Es Un Disco de Punk (This Is Not a Punk Disc). Their third release is titled Anunciado en Televisión (Advertised on Television), which became a hit in Spain and whose first single, "Nada Que Perder" ("Nothing to Lose"), is the theme song of the television series Los Hombres de Paco.
Studio albums Melodias Desafinadas (luno Records) - 2003 Esto no es un disco de punk (luno Records) - 2005 Anunciado en televisión (Warner Music Spain) - 2006 Cuestión de gustos (Warner Music Spain) - 2007 Año Zero (Sony Music) - 2010 El tiempo y el espacio (Pignoise Records) - 2013 Lo que queda por andar (Pignoise Records) - 2015 Diversión (Pignoise Records) - 2022 Las Ganas (Acqustic) - 2025
Compilations Cuestión de directo (Warner Music Spain) - 2009
EPs Maqueta (self-released) - 2001 Pignoise por dentro (Sony Music) - 2011
Singles Nada Que Perder - 2006 Te Entiendo - 2006 Sigo llorando por ti - 2006 Sin ti - 2007 Sube a mi cohete - 2007 Pasar de cuartos (created to the Spain national football team) - 2008 Estoy enfermo (feat. Melendi) - 2009 Todo me da igual - 2010 Cama vacía - 2010 Quiero - 2010 Bajo tu suela - 2010 Nubes de algodón - 2011 La prisión del tiempo - 2011 La gravedad - 2013 Prométeme - 2015 Interrogante - 2017
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