"Kasino could be as down-at-heel and working class as the Strokes for all I know, but the music they make is ambitious and endearingly earnest?it makes you want to cheer in spite of yourself." - Splendid, Fearless Review

"Freely admitting past comparisons to U2, REM et al? they do the mainstream-with-cred rock thing pretty damn well." - Jockrock, Fearless review

"Their double guitar attack chugs, jangles, screams and swoops its way through a whole swathe of top quality songs? they're in a wide Scots tradition of great yearning songs plus outright rockishness that has seen a string of monster acts down the years." - Whisperin' and Hollerin', Live Review

"They don't piss about pretending to have an "attitude" or a problem with pleasing the crowd. They go straight for the emotional jugular and stay there... the joy of this stuff is that each song is distinct, well formed and unmistakably Kasino's own. No fillers, no derivatives, no rubbish. Play it loud and shout along. Fall in love with guitars all over again." - Leeds Music Scene, Fearless review

 

Short biography

Kasino are a good band with bad hair.

Slightly longer biography

Kasino prove that rock music doesn't have to be synonymous with sexism and songs about pixies. They are the people who play S Club 7 on the jukebox and dance around, giggling like loons, until the local Hells Angels beat them unconscious with pool cues.

Based in Glasgow, Kasino have been compared to Radiohead, REM, Geneva, Travis, Sugar and U2 - although singer Gary claims that the band is "the missing link between Husker Du and S Club 7".

Background

Having played Glasgow Barrowlands and T in the Park, not to mention scaring the crap out of drunken TV viewers throughout Scotland, Kasino got fed up and changed line-up in the summer of 2001. Since then they've been writing songs, with the release of debut album Fearless (now sold out) and a new EP ("Thank You and Goodnight") in 2004.

Kasino have shared stages with Mansun, Miles Hunt, Snowpony, Eugene Speed, Cosmic Rough Riders, Dave Sharp (ex-Alarm) and assorted other ne'er-do-wells and ruffians, and appeared on various TV programmes and radio shows. If you get them drunk enough, they'll admit to influences including The 4 Of Us, A-Ha, Five Star, Crowded House and God knows what else.

The band stopped counting their MP3 downloads when the number reached 200,000.

Kasino are David Marshall, Guitars; John Clarke, Bass; Calum MacArthur, Drums; and Gary Marshall, Vocals.

Discography

2004

Thank You and Goodnight EP

2003

New Masters - covermounted CD with The Big Issue Scotland.
Kasino track "Walk the Wrong Road"

2002

Fearless (LP)

2001

Smoke - compilation of new Scots music.
Kasino track "Thinking about Yesterday"

No Smoke - limited edition companion piece to Smoke.
Kasino track "Shine like the stars"

The Littlest Album - 12 bands, 12 songs, one 7" single.
Kasino track "See you fall (LA version)"

2000

You don't have to be alone EP

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