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Johnny Casino

Brothers and Sisters the REAL Johnny Casino !!!

About Me

Johnny Casino, anywhere, anytime. This man has one musical fault – he’s too fucking good. - PATRICK EMERY - BEAT MAGAZINE---------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------ New Clothes Old Shoes , Johnny Casino & The Secrets (Off The Hip) Classy, rocking and cinematic. A sweeping vision. THE BARMAN - I94 BAR--------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ -------- Johnny Casino should be playing upper-middle-class booze orgies to loosen up and wreck soon to be career women ! - GEORGE SMITH - VILLAGE VOICE NYC ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------- Johnny Casino has the songs,the sound and the spirit of irresistible rock’n’roll bursting with soul . - GUY PETERS - GODDEAU----------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------Cowboys and Indians video made by John MorrisonG’day , this is the short of the long. I play in all these bands - Asteroid B612[syd/aust] - Johnny Casino and the Secrets[syd/melb/perth/aust] - Johnny Casino’s Easy Action[usa/aust] - The Ego’s[melb/aust] - The Unfuckable[syd/bris/aust] - Los Dingoes[spain/aust] , and i get a kick outta playing with each of them for different reasons. I love playing Honest rock’n’roll music and i think for the most part it is what keeps me sane , or at least what i believe is sane .Sala Carabel - Palencia Spain - November 2007La Fábrica de Chocolate Club (Vigo), 9 de Noviembre de 2007

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Member Since: 5/30/2005
Band Website: johnnycasino.com.au
Band Members:In SYDNEY - Ben Fox , Mark Horne , Mick Poole - In MELBOURNE - Cris Wilson , James Saunders , Michael Evans - In PERTH - Kenny Watt , Brad Miller , Warren Hall - and then at any givin time - Kent Steedman , Brad Shepherd , Kendall James , Billy Gibson , Mike Burnham , Carl Ekman , James Greening , David Weir , Lucian McGuiness , Sloth , Jeremy Craib , Grahame Spittles , Scott Nash , Megan Bawden and YOU , yeah thats right if ya interested i'll find something for ya to do !
Influences: Chuck Berry , Motown , Stax , Elvis Presley , Bob Dylan , The Motor City Five , The Meters , Dr John , Alex Chilton , The Who and the many things going through my mind.


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Sounds Like: I was playing at La Gambetta Club in Paris and someone told me we sounded like "Chuck Berry on Acid" , i think thats a fair Comment .Johnny Casino and the Secrets - The lansdowne Hotel , Sydney - caught on Vinny’s mobile phoneJohnny Casino and the Secrets - Live in Spain - Ponferrada.Johnny Casino and the Secrets - Live in Madrid - Spain.Johnny Casino and the Secrets - the Amplifier bar, Perth.Johnny Casino and the Secrets - live in Valloladid - Spain.Johnny Casino’s Easy Action - Cafe De Hel - Tongeren, Belgium.Cowboys and Indians - OFF THE HIP RECORDS’New Clothes Old Shoes’ OFF THE HIP RECORDS .....’Get some’ OFF THE HIP RECORDS ......................’I paid for affection , not the house of correction’ OFF THE HIP RECORDS’We’ve forgotten more than you’ll ever know’ OFF THE HIP RECORDS’Two sides to every coin’ CORDUROY RECORDS’Twice as good as you’ KADILLAC RECORDS
Record Label: OFF THE HIP RECORDS 381 Flinders Lane Melbourne
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Reviews from Spain .

sábado 10 de noviembre de 2007 Johnny Casino and the Secrets GET SOME (OFF THE HIP CD)La mejor manera y mas barata de saber a que suena los Secretos de Johnny Casino es haciéndose con este disco ...
Posted by Johnny Casino on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 05:34:00 PST

new clothes old shoes - review Germany

Here is a review of ’new clothes old shoes’ from Germany TWANG-BANG-WAH-WAH-ZOING! Johnny Casino & The Secrets  New Clothes Old Shoes (CD, Off The Hip,  www.myspace.com/therealjo...
Posted by Johnny Casino on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 04:00:00 PST

Cowboys and Indians - Review

COWBOYS AND INDIANS EP - Johnny Casino & The Secrets (Off the Hip)A follow-up to the "New Clothes Old Shoes" album and it's up there with the long-player, no risk. This is a logical add-on for fan...
Posted by Johnny Casino on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 03:22:00 PST

Thank you Spain !!

Just wanted to say a big thanks to all who came to the shows we played in Spain . We had a great time and the tour ended way to soon , i think we could have spent another two weeks playing and drinkin...
Posted by Johnny Casino on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:50:00 PST

new clothes old shoes - ALBUM OF THE WEEK - review in BEAT Magazine Melbourne

Johnny Casino And The Secrets Old Clothes, New Shoes (Off The Hip) In the far-too lengthy period since Detroit-meets-Sydney garage rock band Asteroid B-612 went into hiatus, Johnny Casino (nee John Sp...
Posted by Johnny Casino on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 02:41:00 PST

NEW CLOTHES OLD SHOES - REVIEW - from I-94 bar

NEW CLOTHES OLD SHOES - Johnny Casino & The Secrets (Off the Hip)Those shoes cover a lot of stylistic ground on this debut long-player for Sydney guitarist-singer Johnny Casino but the walk never ...
Posted by Johnny Casino on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 07:55:00 PST

Johnny Casino and the Secrets - Get Some ! Review

GET SOME - Johnny Casino & The Secrets (Off the Hip)Ostensibly a two-song sampler for the new album "New Clothes, Old Shoes" with 11 more tunes appended, this becomes a fine career retrospective f...
Posted by Johnny Casino on Mon, 14 May 2007 07:17:00 PST

Get some new songs

Got some new songs up here . Trying to be your man is from the new sampler on Off the Hip records called JOHNNY CASINO AND THE SECRETS - GET SOME ! I also put up a song from the Johnny Casino's Easy A...
Posted by Johnny Casino on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 03:04:00 PST

Why Ed is STILL better than most of em

Thats what i reckon !! I aint seen Ed Kupper in about a year ,and thats my fault. Last night it took about 5 minutes for me to remember what i love about his music. Ed is still gamblin on his music, ...
Posted by Johnny Casino on Thu, 23 Nov 2006 04:40:00 PST

Johnny Casino and the BELLRAYS !!!!!

O'kay all you rock'n'roll fans in Sydney have no excuses to not be down at the Annandale Hotel on Tuesday night , for the one and only Bellrays, doing there only side show from thier tour with Ra...
Posted by Johnny Casino on Sat, 29 Jul 2006 12:38:00 PST