* Nick plays Piano, Acoustic Guitar and sings
* Lee plays Lead, Rhythm & Acoustic Guitar and sings
* Jon plays Bass and Acoustic Guitars and sings in the background
* Joff plays Drums and Percussion
Influences
Air, Ash, Ben Folds, Ben Folds Five, The Smiths, Coldplay, Editors, David Gray, Crowded House, Weezer, Snow Patrol, Barenaked Ladies, The Beatles, Beck, Ben Lee, Bryan Adams, We Are Scientists, Kaiser Chiefs, The GLC, Daft Punk, Depeche Mode, Blondie, John Lennon, Rush, Fleetwood Mac, Razorlight, Jimmy Eat World, Morrissey, Tom Waits, Bruce Cockburn, Eagle Eye Cherry, NOFX, Van Halen, The Specials, Badly Drawn Boy, Bloc Party, The Beautiful South, Fountains of Wayne, Bob Dylan, Longview, New Radicals, Radiohead, Paul Simon, Counting Crows, Scissor Sisters, Travis, Third Eye Blind, Stroke 9, The La's, Lemon Jelly, The Divine Comedy, Reuben, Sting, Prince, The Moldy Peaches, The Music, The Coral, Feeder, The Semantics, Idlewild, The Damned, Easyworld, ELO, Ben Kweller, Joni Mitchell, Jeff Buckley, The Strokes, The Magic Numbers, Blur, Franz Ferdinand, Oasis, The Clash, Eels, Doves, The Darkness, and the man who wrote the Alvin and The Chipmunks theme.
Sounds Like
Indie Acoustic With A Dash Of Electric.
Imagine Coldplay's people carrier has a car crash with Turin Brakes' and Rush's VW Camper Vans on the way to a day trip to beachy head. All their tapes and cd's melt into one big melodic mix tape - well thats us.
Casualkai is made up in equal measures of Plymouths pasty-noshing mutton chop-cultivating Nick Gladdish (Vocals/Guitar/Piano). Red Bull guzzling Lee Brown (Vocals/Guitar) is as Newcastle born and bred as brown ale, the tyne bridge and incoherent chronicle salesmen. Mansfields Jon Jarvis (Bass) is an English graduate and teacher who, if born 20 years earlier, could have probably been found break dancing in a back street to NWA, and pretending to be the woman from Flashdance. Joff Fortune (Drums) of ex-mining town Ashington is a qualified geneticist and medical student who works in a betting shop.
Gladdish and Brown met while doing degrees at Hull University, and when the fun was over they both moved to Newcastle. Deciding to increase their ranks while gigging as a pair around Newcastle to pay the bills, Gladdish and Brown recruited Jarvis, who turned up to the wrong rehearsal but decided to cut his losses and stick with it anyway. Fortune was welcomed with open arms onto the drumkit after the only other applicant revealed sinister death-metal aspirations for the potential four-piece during his audition.
Casualkai aim to make music that holds your attention right to the end. Their weapons are harmony driven acoustic rock, a sturdy rhythm section and infectious vocal and musical hooks playing on a lengthy list of influences charting the best in singer songwriting, rock, dance and RNB from the last 30 years. Each song may be different, but is still as unmistakably Casualkai as the last.
Just to let you know that Skilf's new single 'Slow Me Down' will be out in July, listen to a preview now on http://www. myspace. com/skilf. It's a true hip hop banger, produced by Toni Toolz and featuring the californian singer Michelle Ericsson. CHECK IT OUT NOW!!!!
Greetings from Phoenixx Rising! It's February already! This means that our Music Jukebox is now up and running, with this month's great selection of upcoming and unsigned talent.
Featured this month we have: *Flesh Eating Foundation *Leading The Charge *Danse Of The Dead & *The Offering
To view the jukebox visit www.phoenixxrising.com and click on "Extras" at the top of the page. If you are in an unsigned Alternative band, you can also find details on the page for submitting your tracks for the March jukebox.
hi there guys how are you? not spoken to you, well, since the tour really, hope all is well? Online at the moment to promote our bbc dvd thing a little, the clips are on our myspace and the dvd/cd box-set is up on www.ebay.co.uk (search for rebel jane) if you're interested? How's things going with the band? Cameron
"It's a great night and some of the best local live acts I've seen have played there." Chris Peet, BBC Tyne reporter
This months line up: Sandhill, Show Off Summer & Oonagh Cassidy
An amazing night of entertainment at The Cumberland Arms, situated just off Byker Bank.
On the last Tuesday of every month, three artists grace three stages simultaneously in The Cumberland Arms.
Expect something slightly different to what you're used to; with bands changing their normal set, covering a song or two, or even collaborations between bands… who knows?!
hiya lads, how're you doing? Long time no see! I do hope you're all well. I'm playing in the land of the Sun-ders this coming Saturday if you're free? See enormous flyer below!
I'm looking forward to it lots as it's a new venue for me. It'd be great if people can come down and show their support.
I'll be doing 2 sets of of originals and covers. Doors are 8.30pm, starting at aprox 9.30pm and best of all it's free!!
Substance is located at 1 Tunstall Road, Sunderland (Just off the roundabout on The Queen Alexandra Road)
"It's a great night and some of the best local live acts I've seen have played there." BBC Tyne
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This months line up: Waterfront, Rob Howe and Summertime Blues.
An amazing night of entertainment at The Cumberland Arms, situated just off Byker Bank.
On the last Tuesday of every month, three artists grace three stages simultaneously in The Cumberland Arms.
Expect something slightly different to what you're used to; with bands changing their normal set, covering a song or two, or even collaborations between bands… who knows?!
FREE ENTRY, 7pm till 2am, Indie, Alternative, Soul, Rock, Punk. The Quay, Blyth THE SHALLOW CALL (Barnsley) www.myspace.com/theshallowcall These guys are a great Indie Punk band who have played with the likes of The Pigeon Detectives, The Enemy and Maccabees to name a few. “The Shallow Call are great. Line for line, song for song, The Shallow Call are a band with limitless ideas, great songwriting talent and above all, a solid band that can actually play”. LEEDS MUSIC SCENE, 'Incredible, epic and euphoric rock & roll.' HIGH VOLTAGE, 'If you like your music sophisticated, dark and edgy then The Shallow Call may just become your new favourite band.8/10' DRIPFED
SIXFIFTIES (Washington) www.myspace.com/sixfifties A great live band that have recently played with The Dogs at Sunderland Independent. “Lead singer Matty exerted an energy on stage which was enjoyable to watch and helped propel the band's fast beat, head nodding catchy songs to the audience.Grinning throughout like a brass monkey who's come in out the cold, Matty belted out the band's well-known tracks such as the rich guitar ditty Debt Collector and the bittersweet The Writing's On The Wall. Most of the Sixfifties' tracks are quite short but laden with musical moments of brilliance and clever lyrics, leaving a lasting impression.”
