| Born: 23rd August 1978 Contribution to the band: vocals, songwriter. Swagger. Known For: Julian is the kind of boy girls fanastise about. this hasn't always been the way though. during school (when he was couped up in his room in a swiss boarding school) he was the class clown, and found the gals didn't really see him a possible love puppy. being the misunderstood, serious and deep type worked a lot better. It also worked better if he was going to be writing songs for a career. Something he realised in the swiss school, lying on his bed on a weekend, fed up and lonely and listening to the doors. thanks to his stepdad who sent it over, that doors tape inspired Julian to write songs that could make him feel like the doors, or bob marley, or lou reed or brian wilson did. Julian gets a lot of question about his relationship with his real father, John Casablancas, retired founder and chairman of the elite modelling agency, but his father having left his mother (a former Miss Demark, yet another explanation of the drop dead gorgeous Julian) when Julian was young, felt a lot of understandable angst towards his dad, but a lot of love towards his stepdad, an art teacher in New York. After becoming frustrated with highschool, Julian applied for a 2 year musical composition scholarship at Five Towns College on Long Island. to write and practice songs he'd hire keyboards from stores with promotional "try before you buy" deals, and it paid off, he got it, and learned the rules so he could break them. Dispite his sulky pout,and his moody drunken rock star behaviour (only on occasions) Julian is really just the kind of guy who would “really rather sit down with you and have a beer”, work on his craft, and hope that you'll like it. |
| The Quotable Casablancas: To a disgruntled executive in the audience during a song: “Don’t you fucking look at your watch while I’m singing!” In reply to an interviewer enquiring about the “stroking” qualities of the name The Strokes: "what? you mean like... masturbation?" asks julian looking all innocent, like he is daring us to say the word. er...yeah, or is that more indicative of your interviewers mindset? "nah, it's got nothing to do with that... well... it has, but, no." Julian on the suggestion of taking each other and their manager onto a deserted island, suggesting someone opt out so they could: "take something more useful like a girl... or our fucking instruments". (Don’t worry, Nick solves this problem by suggesting tropical instruments like bamboo and coconuts) Julian on Sir Mixalot Prime, a robot given to them by an interviewer (they then try to stimulate sex with it on Nikolai...those crazy kids): "I had a dream last night and that Robot... a Robot just like that destroyed the world..." Julian on his music: "I wanted to make the music sound like it was from 30 years ago, but being heard now. With everything that entails. Do you understand? Like music from the future heard now..." Julian on the lyric “IN spaceships they won’t understand” from Last Nite: "and what it means is that in the future, when we're all flying to work in fucking space ships, it'll still be the same old shit. Like, no one will understand why you have to just do it." (Fab then leaps up to hug Julian and says; "That's fucking beautiful man!") Julian on the live set: 'Our set's like milk and cookies…' Really? 'Nah,' he finishes, 'It's more like a shot of tequila… (Smiles)' On their Album: "We hope it rocks your balls off" (cue wry smile) |
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| producer had to be naked at all times. Yeah, it was primal, we'd drag girls back to our caves by the hair. Albert are you touching my butt? |
| Julian "there will be no fucking encore" Casablancas |
| a touch of Faith No More and Aerosmith. We try to rub some funk on everything we do. we express all our emotions in charts and graphs. |
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