NEWS
09.06.08 UK + making summer plans for 2009
Hello, geezers (Geeeezas)! Thanks to everyone that came out to see us in London last week. We're all heavily overweight now, due to grotesque amounts of english breakfast, so please don't point at us in the streets.
To all you filo fax addicts we've added a special date under "upcoming gigs". 3rd of june 2009 we'll be playing at a farm outside Oslo, so please reschedule that Ibiza trip while you still can!
UPCOMING GIGS
30.06.08 Norway, Oslo, Spasibar
01.07.08 Denmark, Roskilde, Roskilde festival
03.07.08 Norway, Kristiansand, Klubb Louis @ Rederiet
04.07.08 Norway, Kongsberg, Kongsberg Jazz festival - 3 shows!
05.07.08 Norway, Stavanger, Checkpoint Charlie
18.07.08 Norway, Bryne, Rangerock festival
19.07.08 Norway, Tønsberg, Slottsfjell festival
31.07.08 Norway, Askøy, Lost Weekend festival
01.08.08 Norway, Storås, Storås festival
02.08.08 Norway, Alo, Alo festival
08.08.08 Norway, Oslo, Øya festival
09.08.08 France, Aulnoye-Aymeries, Les Nuits Secrétes
11.08.08 Norway, Bergen, Tall ships races 2008
23.08.08 Norway, Trondheim, Pstereo festival
03.06.09 Norway, Oslo, Nordre Lindeberg gård
Saturday 24.05 England
Thanks to everyone that came out to see us in Brighton and London last weekend! The whole Casiokids collective had an amazing time. Special thanks to Tabitha, Nazlee, Snoopers Paradise in Brighton, everyone at Luminaire and Matt&Kim! Check out this happy gang!
See you in London next week.
Sunday 11.05 New name for the puppeteers
The shadow puppet mob have officially changed their name to.....Digitalteateret! Casiokids and their favorite theatre troupe are on the road already next week when we'll all visit Brighton and London. See you there!
Tuesday 06.05.08 New song on myspace+loads of new summer dates confirmed
Oh yes, the best summer, EVER! Check out brand new track "Grønt lys i alle ledd" here.
Friday 11.04.08 Q & A
Humans want answers, and we've got them!
Wednesday 26.03.08 Summer festivals +++
Yep, this summer we'll be travelling all over Scandinavia and the rest of Europe with the Casiokids family! These are the festival contracts we've signed and stamped so far: (Much more TBA surprisingly soon!)
Tuesday 29.01.08 Sous la Plage video collage updated on myspace
Hi! Check out Sandra Jecmenica's new video collage from Casiokids' work-shop and concert at the Sous la Plage concert in 2007 on our MYSPACE.
Tuesday 06.11.07 By:larm 2008 & new songs
Oh god! Christmas starts earlier and earlier every year, but hey...that just means more presents for you! We've just uploaded one of our new songs, and we really hope you like it. That's our present from all of us to all of you. Listen to it on Myspace. Casiokids are also ready for the Norwegian festival By:larm in Oslo feb. 21-23!
Love
Saturday 27.10.07 We are still alive!
The kids are currently spending some long days in our studio in Bergen, to give YOU some hot and sweet beats to dance to in the future.
Wednesday 25.07.07 Time of our lives.
Bonjour! Thanks to everyone that helped us out on the concerts in Paris this weekend. The concerts were a great success and you all looked good on the dancefloor. Merci beaucoup to all the kids at the Sous La Plage festival that we made some hard casiotechno with using sounds recorded from toys scattered around the casio playground!
Monday 16.07.07 Rendevouz in Paris!
-This weekend
Casiokids and the shadow puppets Figuraturus are looking forward to returning to France this weekend! You can see us at La Fleche d'Or friday 20th or at Sous La Plage Festival sunday 22nd. We will also have a sound work-shop in the park where Sous La Plage takes hold on sat 21st and 22nd in the daytime. Check Fleche d'Or and Sous La Plage web pages for details and tickets.
A bientot!
Friday 25.05.07 OiOi Festival
Omar and Ketil from Casiokids are contributing to a sound installation called "å høre gresset gro" in the centre of Bergen city this weekend. The project is a collaboration between Casiokids, KHiB and Barnas Hus and is part of the OiOi Festival. Read more about the festival here, and watch a reportage from the installation here.
The installation is open at these times:
Sat 26th 13-16
Sun 27th 13-16
Mon 28th 13-16
Saturday 19.05.07 Thank you!
Thanks to everyone that saw us play on our tour in Norway this spring! Haugesund, Bergen, Stavanger, Trondheim, Oslo, Kristiansand, we love you all! If you do not live in Norway, or if you haven't been here, check the country out here.
Tuesday 17.04.07 At the national theatre!
Kids behold! We will do a grandios show at the national theatre in Bergen (the big stage) on Norway's national day, 17th of may! The income from the concert goes to the national theatre in Kabul.
Read more about the national theatre in Kabul here, and learn more about the norwegian national day here.
Monday 26.03.07 On Tour!
Hei ho! the kids are touring Norway as we speak!
Thanks to everyone that saw us in Trondheim, Bergen and Haugesund last week. Stavanger, Oslo and Kristiansand are up next!
Check out this article (in norwegian) from our childrens gig at kvarteret march 11th (amazing pictures!)
Wednesday 24.01.07 Let's do it (again!)
Hi all you humans! Well. to be honest, we didnt do a proper norwegian tour supporting our debut album "fuck MIDI!", so we'll do it one more time, - and this time it's for real! We'll do a bunch of concerts in Norway in march. See you all there! Some are listed under concerts allready, and more will come.
The tour was set up with help from Chris Wareing in Pappas Management and with financial support from Norsk Kulturråd.
Please buy our new album here , here, or from our german distributors here
check out nice interviews here (24.10), here and here
Look here, here and here for great reviews
Wednesday 29.11.06 Kindergarden Tour!
Hoi! Casiokids and the shadow puppets will embark on a 5 date kindergarden tour in Bergen next week! The tour is supported by Bergen Kommune/Greta Evjen. Kids behold!
Monday 6.11.06 Video update!
Check out our new video for the song Bagamoyo here.
The video was shot at the art achademy in Bergen by Aslak Helgesen and Trygve Trohaug, and includes footage of our lovely shadow puppets Figuraturus!
Wednesday 25.10.06 Hear yee!
Kids behold! Thank you for showing up in Ås and Oslo this weekend. We had a great time. A special thanks goes out to Olli, our own live data animator in chief.
Monday 09.10.06 Band 'o' the week!
Bagamoyo is" song of the week" at the Student Radio in Bergen and on the national student radio list as well! (hooray again). il Fait Beau is in addition to this A-listed on the Student Radio in Stavanger and is frequently played on the national NRK P3 radio !
Monday 09.10.06 Hooray! Hooray!
Bring thou dough to thou record store. Our debut album FUCK MIDI is out in Norway! See you all at Landmark this thursday. There will be cookies, there will be treats, there will be meat, there will be cheap CDs and there will be balloons. Casiokids will also of course play a litte show and Den Tredje Verden Djs will lurk around the turn tables.
Wednesday 02.09.06 Kindergarden concert!
This friday Casiokids will play for the kids at Gyldenpris Barnehage in Bergen. Finally we play for someone of our own size!
Monday 25.09.06 Gallery updated!
Monday 07.08.06 Neat treats coming up!
Oh yes. Our debut album Fuck MIDI! will be out in Norway the 9th of october on Karisma/TUBA! We're working on distribution elsewhere as we speak, but if you don't live in Norway you can buy the music on iTunes or order it (Oh my, the electronic future is here already!).Remember to come by our concert at Grønland underground station in Oslo this wednesday 6 o'clock! The best things in life are impossible to download!
Saturday 13.05.06
Kor e bikkjen? Der e bikkjen!
Saturday 29.04.06
Oh My! This guy in Australia called Piggen has made a music video for the song Postcard From Congo! It turned out to be very nice. Here it is!
Tuesday 18.04.06
Casiokids got some airtime in the Chech Republic last week at Radio Akropolis. Merci!
Tuesday 28.03.06
Check us out at myspace!
Sunday 05.03.06
Tjoho! We have a new member in the Casiokids family! His name is André and he will be our booking agent from now on. He is very nice so remember to be nice with him in return! By the way... The new album is now 100% finished thanks to master phantom John Hegre from Kaptein Kaliber! We are currently looking for a record company + booking gigs for the summer. Both the band and the shadow puppet group are working on new material these days to make a live show that will be something quite close to perfection! Frightening rumours have leaked out about reggae beats and greek super mario mythology.
Can't wait to see those shadow puppets in bermuda shorts and sunglasses.*******
Sunday 22.01.06
Excerpts from the new album has been added to the sounds department. Check it out here!
Saturday 21.01.06
The Casiokids
crew has nothing better to do on a saturday night than staying home burning CD-Rs! The album is 99% finished and therefore we are starting on the long journey toward finding a nice record company to release it. Well, hopefully it will not take too long. "can't thou see thee gold in thy hands?" Hmm. That COULD be something from a theatre play from the 19th century, but, well maybe not. Perhaps it's from a shadow puppet play in the 21st century? God knows.
Thursday 05.01.06
Holy maloney! 2006 is going to be "the year of the Casio". First of all we are looking forward to finish up the recording for our debut album "fuck midi!", secondly we are eager to start playing live again.Our first excursion will be to the capital of Norway: a decent place called Oslo, in a decent club called Mono. Hopefully we'll also come back to France this summer! à bientot!
Thursday 24.11.05
The gallery has been updated with dozens of lovely pictures recently. An orgy for the eye! Check out the pics-section at once. Monday 07.11.05
Hello kids! Casiokids and the shadow puppet group Figuraturus got an amazing review in Bergens biggest newspaper Bergens Tidende for the concert at Hulen 02.11.05! For those of you who don't understand norwegian bokmål: they called us the best band in Bergen! Dere som snakker norsk kan lese anmeldelsen her.
Tuesday 25.10.05
Salut tout le monde! We just came back from our tour in France. oh, how we'd love to come back to France as soon as possible! People in Rennes, Amiens and Paris were so nice to us! Special thanks to Gaetan, Fred, Clement and Julien who made the tour possible. Merci beaucoup! Also thanks to the nice girls we met, the insane man at the hotel in Paris (you need help!), the funny sound engeneer at Guinguette Pirate (Ca Gaz!), Olivier from Nouvelle Vague, Pierre Bastien, Mami chan Band ( "J'ai perdu mon parapluie"), Winter Family and everyone who works in shops in France where they sell RGB-cables (Where are you?).
coming up on the page are live recordings from France + updated gallery!
-Ketil
Thursday 06.10.05
Hello kids! We are putting the finishing strokes on our debut album this autumn! hurra for det! The title is "Fuck MIDI!" and the tracklist goes something like this:
1. Tante Gerd
2. il fait beau (feat Charlie)
3. Bagamoyo
4. Postcard From Congo (feat. Håkon Kornstad)
5. Walking on Water
6. Shortcut '99
7. Den Trojanske Hesten
8. Bjelge (feat.Bjelge)
9. Last Dance of the Bolsjeviks
10. N'Dur
11. 110 % ære
Monday 26.09.05
Stage map is now available for downloading here or in the contact-section.
Friday 23.09.05
Casiokids are currently in the studio working on their debut album with working title "New on the block"...
Tuesday 20.09.05
We are proud to announce that Casiokids will warm up the audience for the brilliant french band Nouvelle Vague november 2nd in Bergen. Joupie!
Tuesday 14.09.05
Everyone in Grimstad and Tonsberg were very nice to us this weekend, and we had a great time! Special thanks goes to Aslaks enthusiastic mother and Morten who both made this trip possible. Check out the pics-section for updated gallery with intimate and revealing pictures from the tour.
Saturday 03.09.05
Just wanted to say that we had an amazing time at the Numusic Festival in Stavanger last weekend! Special thanks to Martyn Reed for letting us play.Check out the article (in Norwegian) from this weeks STUDVEST here . soundgenerator.com also gave us a nice little comment on their internetpage:
" Local outfit Casiokids charmed and engaged listeners with earnest, simple and effective beats-vibes-and-guitar structures over kiddies' TV scores, backed by a shadow puppet screen that echoed the artists' lyrics with naive, slapstick literalism. Simple but effective, in fact so much so that able men of Irritant and Seed label stock played for audiences of two or three next door, numbers gaining briefly during intervals between the main stage acts."
Monday 15.08.05
Casiokids and the shadow puppet group Figuraturus are confirmed for the extremely decent festival Numusic in Stavanger, and will play alongside names such as Karlheinz Stockhausen(!) and Jamie Lidell amongst others. Check out their website here.
Wednesday 27.07.05
The SHADOW PUPPET TOUR DE FRANCE
is starting to
take shape! Casiokids and
the shadow puppet group are really looking
forward to a week filled with sensual
excitement and sexy french shadow puppets.
We're also glad to announce that our
cello player Matias Ghostzlut Monsen and
his cello (that travels in its own planeseat)
will be joining us.HALLELUJA. HALLELUJA.
We can't wait! And....other breaking news:
Casiokids will record their debut album
in september. Producer will be the extremely
handsome and talented Kjetil io Aabø.