CASABLANCA

Hi, you’re speaking with Ryan Roxie from Casablanca and we are in the room right before Crazy Nights Music and Festival, first annual.

How does it feel to play here tonight?

I’m really looking forward to it because it’s the first Crazy Nights Festival and in one way or another, Casablancas first proper show.

We’re gonna play in front of the audience we want to play for. We’ve done some TV things and we’ve been lucky enough to play some big shows but to play in front of our hardcore audience, a bunch of rock’n’rollers that lives and breath rock’n’roll 24/7. That’s the audience that we want to have so we’re taking the songs to the people tonight. We’ll see. Either they like us or they hate us.

Are you gonna play at any festivals this summer?

Yeah, this summer, we call it the ”Casablanca building the foundation”. We’re gonna be in the trenches. Wherever we can play. We can play nice big festivals, nice good shows with bands that we respect or bands that I think is compatible with us. We’re also lucky enough to be supporting KISS in Malmö so that’s gonna be a big show for us as well. That’s comig up in…..I think it’s 13th June.

Is that the one you’re looking forward to the most?

Well I mean anytime that you play at Stadion you kind of look forward to it no matter what band your in. And you’re playing with a band that you grew up listening to so of course. Everybody in the band is future KISS fans so that’s gonna be a highlight, but to be onest with you. Any show that we play and we all go on stage together is kind of like something special for us. We made an album and we’re dying to get it out and we’re really exited for people to hear it. So anytime we get on stage we’re like, this is the show, this i the show where we have to prove ourselfs. You know, we have a lot of proving to do. We can’t rely on the names of the other bands that we come from. We have to walk on our own.

Is there any band that you really really would like to play with, exept for KISS?

Well I’m kind of wearing them on my chest. I’m wearing a Cheap Trick shirt tonight. That’s one of my favorite bands. I think their playing at Sweden Rock sometime this year. I think their is a couple of really optimal bands that Casablanca could play with, that would be good double bill or good tours. Anything to me that lives and breath rock’n’roll is a good band for Casablanca. Cuz we are pretty much guitar driven, not a lot of bull shit, girl drummer, you know, former fotball playing bass player. Those are thing that you can talk about on the side. The main focus is the songs and hopefully the guitars rip your head off.

Have you ever had any fan that did something really crazy?

Hahaha, I don’t know what’s considered as crazy?

What you think is crazy, like stripping or….

Well stripping is not so crazy, I do it every night.

You do?

Yeah, before I go to bed, haha.  Don’t you?

Well I think that one of the most, well not crazy things, but dedicated things is to see the types of fans that are willing to follow you when you go on tour.

I was just talking to the guys here about these two polish guys that follows us.

Could you be naked on a show and what would you ask for to do it, charity e.t.c?

I do a lot of things for charity but I’m not shure that seeing me naked would actually give any donations. Haha. I had those blond dreads a few years back and I actually cut them all of for charity – Dreads for bread. I guess, to strip naked, why not. I’ve been on all the other rides so far. If I would strip the only thing I would ask for is a warm room, not a cold room for obvious reasons. Haha.

Haha, I have a funny question for you…

You mean the last one wasn’t?