The Sticks In The Casino

About The Sticks In The Casino

At the moment The Sticks In The Casino are a constant in Berlin for lovers of emotional, spontaneous and dynamic instrumental rock music, which sometimes may remind you of film music. In 2005 the founding members (Goetz, Grosser, Heidrich, Tran) of The Sticks In The Casino met each other at a local talent show in Thuringia. After that they were asked to perform John Miles “Music was my first love” (destiny?) together with the local youth symphony orchestra at a couple of city events. Afterwards they decided to keep on making music together under the name “Resistant”. All of them had the background of musical education and shared a common taste in music (60’s, 70’s, rock’n’roll, progressive, blues, jazz, music of gdr-artists, etc.) They spend the next two years with writing songs, gigging around in East Germany and producing a demo-cd, which included six rock songs mixed with some funky stuff. But the cultural status quo of their habitat forced them to move away and look for a city of adoption. What better place than Berlin? Unfortunately bass player Jens Heidrich decided to remain to his family and left the band. The sticks - meanwhile bearing that name - moved to Berlin in order to augment their musical visions and professionalize their work. There they met Sebastian Arzet, who substituted Heidrich thenceforth and Stephan Negele, who is responsible for the soun