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.