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Goodbye Casiotone for the Painfully Alone

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gospel:
Worst news ever. Also this.

:(

Inlander:
Boo! Wait, but he's still making music? Oh, okay.

I don't think this is too bad a thing. Judging by what he says in that article, at worst it'll mean that he won't play Casiotone songs live any more. But it's a one man band, and that one man has vowed to keep making music, so if he's just retiring the name and the catalogue I can think of many worse ways for a band to end. I mean, Will Oldham stopped being Palace yonks ago but he hasn't stopped making fantastic music.

At least Casiotone as we know it went out on a high note: Vs. Children was an absolutely fantastic album.

David_Dovey:
So basically the actual meat of this story is "Man with worst performance pseudonym in history sheds worst performance pseudonym in history, hopefully comes  up with something less bad"

Also: Bearded Magazine? For fuck's sake what is going on here

TheFuriousWombat:
It's not even clear that he won't play his old songs live anymore. It would be a shame since I've always liked his shows but man, it's the one band I never tell people about solely because of the name. Maybe if he keeps making good stuff with a not-so-atrocious name I can start telling people to check him out! Not too sad about this since I'm assuming the new stuff won't be some radical departure anyway.

Inlander:
I feel like the name is so obviously ridiculous as to be clearly intentionally over-the-top. I don't think it's anywhere near as wince-inducing as, say, the Pains of Being Pure At Heart or whatever the fuck they're called.

Anyway, Casiotone songs were basically about being awkward and single and twenty-something and realising that life could be a lot more disappointingly mundane than you'd hoped it would be. Owen Ashworth's in his thirties now and he's married so it's not surprising that he might want to re-focus creatively. You could see that starting to happen on Vs. Children, which was more concerned with getting older and negotiating relationships.

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