About us

Is it true that you can play the drums?
Are you going to play the bass with us?
I’m forming a band, would you like to play the keyboard?
Do you actually eat your solos?
And that’s how, in 2014, the TurboDiesel started to take shape. After the changing of certain members, the official formation was born in 2015, thanks to the bass player, Federico Balboni known as Balbo, who took the challenge and put himself forward as a singer as well. So, Lorenzo Preziosi (Prezio) picked the sticks up and sat behind the TurboDiesel drums. The one who ate his solos turned out to be Riccardo Billi, also known as Billi (which isnt’t a nickname, as we all thought at the beginnig, but his  actual last name!). Last but not least, the keyboard player who spent the first year asking for keyboards because he only owned a piano: Matteo Govoni (Matte). 
The name of the band was inspired by the style of music we play, dirty and rough, like only a turbo diesel engine can be (or maybe because, by looking at Balbo’s car, we realised that “turbo diesel” was written before our eyes already?!). 
In May 2016, the band was first hired for a parochial party in Casteldebole (in the province of Bologna). After that event, we realised that our genre wasn’t suited for that type of places at all! This way, pumped and very eager to play, we spent a year studying covers and composing unrealeased songs. 2017 was the turning point: after a series of contests and live sessions in differents places and types of events, we dedicated ourselves to the composition of unreleased songs to best express our thoughts through music. 
But let’s not forget! It’s exactly in this period that we focused on setting up our official rehearsal studio in Maccaretolo (a small town in the province of Bologna) also known as “Maccatown”. In a short amount of time, it proved to be the hotbed of our ideas, and, since December 2017, after having achieved a sufficient amount of unreleased songs, we decided to concentrate on the recording of our first album, Petrolhead, at Wooden Studio in Cento. 
To be continued…