Skywards Bio

Spring 2009: The first Skywards-only Tour by the band with eleven concerts in seven swiss cantons

May 2008: DRS3 elect the Album “not in vain” as Swisstop-candidate of the month May

16th May 2008: The Album “not in vain” is available at Swiss-shops, international downloads and on our homepage

28th March 2008: Record release party

Autumn, winter 2007: Rehearse new live-program, photo shooting, cover design

April – October 2007: Record of our first album in the Powerplaystudio in Maur, CH, with the young producer-team Yann Roullier and Christian Buchner: Strong Reaction Music, www.strongreactionmusic.com

Autumn 2006: The band wrote more songs and recorded a new demo-tape. All musicians exercise a lot to improve their technical skills on their instruments.

Summer 2006: Some Open-Air gigs and other concerts at festivals in Switzerland, further Skywards performed at the Popkomm festival in Berlin, Germany.

Spring 2006: Skywards on Tour as support of the nationally well-known band “Dada (ante portas)” in several famous Swiss clubs. The tour included twelve concerts and the band gained a lot of live experience.

2005: Besides participating at the above mentioned song contest the band also performed some concerts throughout the year.

September 2005: Winner of the national MyCokemusic-songcontest out of 421 participants with the song “Irrefutable”.
As a result: Professional recording of the single “Irrefutable” with the producer Roman Camenzind.

2004 - 2005: First local concerts, performing only original compositions. First Demo Tape called “Blue Tape”.

2001 – 2004: During this period the songwriting-duo Raphael Peter and Andrea Fanconi wrote many new songs with the concept of no longer being a semi-cover band and they also wrote a soundtrack for a locally produced movie.
Those experiments in writing songs in many variations – not only rock songs - improved their skills and experience in the song-writing profession.
Additionally they were forced to reoccupy the band with new musicians because the members of the previous band constellation left the band due to private reasons.
In 2000 and 2001 the band wrote and performed the official songs for the Sled World Championship and the Bobsled World Championship in St. Moritz.

1997: The band Skywards was founded by Raphael Peter and Andrea Fanconi in Celerina/Switzerland