Casbah Club is a British mod

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formed in Finchley, London in 2004.

Career

The band consisted of guitarist/vocalist

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(brother of

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and touring member of

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), bassist

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), drummer

Mark Brzezicki Mark Michael Brzezicki ( , ; born 21 June 1957) is an English musician, best known as the drummer for the Scottish rock band Big Country. He has also played with the Cult, Ultravox, From the Jam, Procol Harum, Rick Astley, the Crazy World of ...

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), and rhythm guitarist Bruce Watson (

). Scottish singer JJ Gilmour sang with the band in its earliest incarnation; a live album entitled ''Eastworld'' from this period was released. Watson left the band to concentrate on his work with Four Good Men prior to re-forming Big Country with Brzezicki and Tony Butler for a 25th anniversary tour in 2007. Casbah Club's debut album, '' Venustraphobia'', was released in June 2006. During that year they toured with

, wherein Simon Townshend played a support set as a member of Casbah Club before playing the headlining set as a member of The Who. As of September 2008, Casbah Club has been on hiatus as Townshend continues to tour with The Who and Bruce Foxton tours with

. Bruce Watson and Mark Brzezizki currently record and tour with the reformed Big Country.

Band members

Current members

– lead vocals, lead guitar, keyboards (2006–2008, 2020–present) *

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– rhythm guitar, backing vocals (2020–present) * Paul Turner – bass (2020–present) *

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– drums (2020–present)

Past members

– bass (2004–2008) * Bruce Watson – rhythm guitar, backing vocals (2004–2008) *

– drums, Percussion (2004–2008) * JJ Gilmour – lead vocals (2004–2006)

Discography

*''Eastworld'' (2004) *'' Venustraphobia'' (2006)

External links

Official website
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