English Fables Vol.1 is the follow up to 2022’s Chippa.
Available now on Bandcamp https://snippetcuts.bandcamp.com/album/english-fables-vol-1

Recorded at home DIY style with a beaten up old tube mic, a nylon stringed guitar and a set of good intentions, this album is chock full of personality, characters and brimming with life.

On English Fables Vol.1 you’ll find an authentic voice delivering stories of the England he knows, of people and of life – all wrapped in musical grit, bounding knee beats, bouncing guitar refrains and beautiful strings, with some wonderfully oddball songs with hooks to die for (Michael, I Knocked You Off The Ladder, Billy With The Wonky Toe).

And in the tradition of the classic English songbook there are wonderful little original gems to be found like Funny Habits, Tip Of My Tongue, Resting Face and Stop And Enjoy it.
There’s even a guest spot for the velvety tones of Marina Florance.

Behind Johnno’s 'survive life by laughing at life' persona there is a real deeper craftmanship in action here, through his enchanting multi instrumentation and clever lyrical interplay.

There’s also a fearlessness from Johnno in covering his battles with chronic health conditions (The Little Things), toxic masculinity faced growing up on a council estate (Patriarchy Vs A Mothers Love), male violence (Punch), the pollution of our waterways (Pipe Dreams), and mental health challenges (Sometimes Life Is Really).

Track 2 Come On Down was apparently born out of listening sessions with Sleaford Mods, Donald Byrd's New Perspective and Dexy's Midnight Runners, with a splash of 7” inch Northern Soul thrown in for good measure, yet it comes out sounding totally upbeat Snippet, totally Johnno in a top mood.

English Fables – Vol.1 is an album of empathy, compassion and warmth - this is beautiful English outsider art from a thriving DIY cottage industry of really interesting recording artists like Johnno Snippet making special musical moments and new memories to bring joy to people.

Back story - Johnno recorded and toured with bands such as Deep Joy who were born out of the early 90’s London acid house/club scene - working with Andrew Weatherall, David Harrow and onto the early years of trip-hop on James Lavelle’s Mo ‘Wax label and being championed by Gilles Peterson. They dented the charts in New York, Tokyo and London and also worked with legendary On-U-Sound label founder and producer Adrian Sherwood.

“Colchester’s king of hooky ear worms - A National Indie Treasure” Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music

"Often thought provoking, the tracks on his new album are possibly his best work to date, an artist clearly in his ascendancy" Louder Than War

“An East End Brian Wilson on a budget” Americana UK

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Funny Habits

CARL GREEN IN PARTICULAR is a North East England solo artist making eccentric, colourful, alt-pop music. The first three EP's (Off Duty, Off Guard and Off Balance), all released in the space of six months in 2023, were recorded live and put out with scant regard for musical trends or production. For 2025, the guitars have been ditched in favour of keys, percussion, found sounds and vocals, with the emphasis switching to something more ornate and immersive. An EP "Mundanity and Mustard" is out now and will be followed by a debut album later in the year. 

"Carl Green is something of a local Damon Albarn in terms of work ethic, artist output, and his desire to jump across genres and back. Fantastic." N E Volume Magazine, March 2025

"Quirky, unpretentious and idiosyncratic- a hill top beacon of originality." DIRGE Magazine, March 2025

"Unique alt-pop goodness." NARC Magazine, March 2025

"Wonderful Gravitas Pop that is a reminder of the great mavericks of the 80's, Hitchcock, Partridge, Newell et al - incredibly inventive, particularly arrangement wise." I Don't Hear A Single blog, December 2023

"A timeless collection of hard-to-pigeon-hole tracks, full of 70's feels, acoustic sounds, and eternally important messages; Carl's music never fails to impress." Poppleton Ink blog, September 2023

"One of the region's real mavericks - he manages to inject his stuff with an operatic amount of drama." The Crack Magazine, August 2023

I'm also the curator of Spotify playlist UNDERGROUND POP PARK shining a light on some frankly amazing underground artists from around the globe. Please listen - so much great music deserving of a little love and attention. open.spotify.com/playlist/4jBGeBNy2sgtvQLaVIJTtc

Snippet is London reared/Colchester based songwriter, recording artist, Johnno Casson. 
English Fables Vol.1 Out Now - https://snippetcuts.bandcamp.com/album/english-fables-vol-1
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The back story

For the last 16 years Johnno has been releasing independent music under his own name, as Snippet, Old Tramp and Walken400, creating a unique catalogue of recordings and performances, and having been named by Tom Robinson as the most played BBC Introducing artist ever on his BBC 6 Music show, Johnno has continued to release vibrant music with plenty of bounce to the ounce.

Former caretaker, London Underground railman and local council relationship manager Johnno Casson aka Snippet started out writing songs at 15 in his bedroom on a Hackney council estate with a tennis racket for a guitar and a soap-on-a-rope microphone.

Johnno played for Adrian Sherwood’s (On-USound) 5-a-side football team (silky smooth striker), gloriously beating The Sun newspaper’s team at a championship for charity at Arsenal’s stadium, and for the last 12 years he has been perfecting his coleslaw making skills, whilst getting M.E and becoming a well respected figurehead on the British D.I.Y./Wonky Pop scene.

Johnno also runs the award winning community group The Warm and Toasty Club, running special live events for the last 9 years www.facebook.com/thewarmandtoastyclub

I help with promoting, supporting and funding to local independent artists, singers, songwriters, bands. 
Also help with positive mindset training, law of attraction, business coaching and mentoring. 
Enjoy all types of music, all depends on who I’m with, where I am and what I want to achieve.