Kid Creole & The Coconuts
Kid Creole and the Coconuts are one of the hardest working, outrageously flamboyant bands of a pretty flamboyant era. Kid Creole (the creation of August Darnell) is a deliberately comic figure, a Latinized Cab Calloway type in a zoot suit and broad-brimmed hat who invented a new sound: a sophisticated, sidewalk jungle-jangle of Latin rhythms, pop harmonies, disco energy, black street talk, big-band swing, Caribbean lilt and Hollywood glamour. They hit big in the 80s with deathless songs ‘I’m a Wonderful Thing Baby’, ‘Stool Pigeon’ and ‘Annie I’m Not Your Daddy’ and won the BRIT for Best International Act of 1982. As wonderful as the singles are, Kid Creole and Coconuts live is something else again, they are quintessential entertainers and the show is as strong and entertaining as ever.
“One of pop music's best-kept secrets is the ongoing party being thrown by prolific producer-composer August Darnell.” Rolling Stone.