Casino (band)

Currently the band are back in business, they've signed a record deal and recently released an album on Spotify.

During 2005, a self-produced demo caught the attention of the newly formed Midlands-based rock radio station, Kerrang, which decided to playlist the band's song "Lose Myself" during prime time listening hours.

The subsequent increase in popularity saw the band continuing to play small local venues and supporting The Suffrajets on their UK tour.

The band signed to Polydor in spring 2006 and changed the name to SpiderSimpson, after a character from a cult film.

In 2008, the future of the band was put in doubt when Deavall began playing keyboards and providing backing vocals live for the Welsh rockers Feeder, and Zindani was made a permanent member of Stereophonics.

[citation needed] However, it was later announced that the band was dropping the SpiderSimpson name and returning to Casino, and that an album had been recorded the previous year.

The album was boosted in early 2009, with Kerrang radio playing several songs as well as sold-out shows in Worcester and Birmingham.

[citation needed] In the last quarter of 2009, Deavall, after playing a few one-off shows with Casino, formed the rock band The High Hurts in the role of lead singer and spent most of 2009 recording with them.

Later that month the band appeared in Rock Sound Presents the Sitcom Soldiers Sessions, In Association With Longwave.