Kid Creole & The Coconuts
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August Darnell: From Dr. Savannah to Kid Creole
Profile and Interview by Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 15 November 1980
"To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, ...
Coconut Kid as Cruise Caruso: Kid Creole
Interview by Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 23 May 1981
KID CREOLE And The Coconuts release their second long player, title Fresh Fruit In Foreign Places, in a couple of weeks' time. A 12-song 'concept ...
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ZE Night: Hurrah, New York City
Profile by Roy Trakin, New York Rocker, June 1980
THE RICH ARE different from you and me, my friends. While we content ourselves with free promos and an occasional "plus-one" at a local bistro, ...
Kid Creole & the Coconuts: Le Palace, Paris
Live Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 23 October 1980
POP MUSIC may have been born free, but it was quickly enslaved by commercial interests; perhaps we should not be surprised that genuinely original vision ...
Kid Creole: Fresh Fruit in Downtown Manhattan
Interview by Paul Rambali, The Face, June 1981
A CHECKER CAB pulls up at the corner of MacDougal and 7th; out of it steps Mr. Michael Zilkha. The cab is yellow with a ...
Profile by Ian Birch, Smash Hits, 11 June 1981
AUGUST DARNELL sounds like one of those mysterious names that invariably appear in the final credits of a movie or TV series. Could it be ...
Profile and Interview by Peter Silverton, New Sounds New Styles, July 1981
New York record label ZE is the product of a remarkable partnership between August Darnell and Michael Zilkha. Peter Silverton profiles the Z of ZE... ...
Interview by Vivien Goldman, New Musical Express, 4 July 1981
And she no Olive Oyl – but Vivien Goldman still meets August Darnell in New York City to learn about the Coconuts' brand new cha ...
Michael Zilkha: The King of Mutant Disco
Profile and Interview by Mary Harron, The Guardian, 4 July 1981
Mary Harron meets the rich kid behind ZE Records' success. ...
Kid Creole & The Coconuts: Fresh Fruit In Foreign Places (Ze/Sire)
Review by Craig Zeller, Creem, September 1981
I HAVE TO admit I got a brief kick out of Creole and Co. when I saw them strut their stuff opening for the B-52's ...
Profile and Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Musician, October 1981
Urban time warps and geomusical quantum leaps later, Kid Creole and his pal Sugar-Coated are washed up on a sandy Island with only their wits ...
Kid Creole & the Coconuts: That Darnell Cat
Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, November 1981
THIS MAN swaps heads like Tommy Cooper! Kid Creole — the desert island disco merchant of two bliss-full albums, the live spectacular and soon Broadway. ...
Kid Creole & The Coconuts: The Rake's Progress
Interview by Richard Grabel, New Musical Express, 15 May 1982
One singer sacked, bad vibes with the vibes player, a dodgy new LP, and a frankly suspect panama hat – Richard Grabel battles through the ...
Kid Creole & The Coconuts: Roxy, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 1982
KID CREOLE & THE COCONUTS MAKE A DIZZYING, DAZZLING ROXY DEBUT ...
August Darnell And The Creole Perplex
Essay by Carol Cooper, The Village Voice, 27 July 1982
"The dominant feeling of the black poet is one of malaise, better still of intolerance. Intolerance of reality because it is sordid, of the world ...
Kid Creole and the Coconuts: Wise Guy (ZE) **
Review by Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, 5 August 1982
THE TITLE OF this record in the U.K. is Tropical Gangsters, in line with the album's plot, which finds Kid Creole and the Coconuts shipwrecked ...
Kid Creole & the Coconuts: Wise Guy (Ze/Sire)
Review by j. poet, Creem, October 1982
EVERY SO often a record comes along sporting such wit, style, finess, integrity, imagination, good taste, humor, and originality that you suspect the poor sucker ...
The Kid & I: A Dinner Date with Kid Creole
Interview by Fiona Russell Powell, The Face, October 1982
The night Fiona Russell Powell joined August Darnell for a late late dinner date ran into the morning of the Kid's 32nd birthday and the ...
Kid Creole & the Coconuts: Lyceum, London
Live Review by Mick Brown, The Guardian, 13 October 1982
IT SEEMS only fitting that when August Darnell, a.k.a. Kid Creole, finishes this British tour which celebrates his transition from exotic cult figure to top ...
Kid Creole & The Coconuts: Lyceum, London
Live Review by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 16 October 1982
God's a Creole – No Kidding! ...
Kid Creole & The Coconuts: Lyceum, London
Live Review by Helen Fitzgerald, Sounds, 23 October 1982
ESCAPISM — a tendency to escape from realities of life into fantasy — is what I expected. Nothing real, nothing pertinent, inspiring or important. Escapism, ...
August Darnell Gets Even With Everybody (For Forcing Him To Make Race Music & Other Sins)
Interview by Iman Lababedi, Creem, December 1982
ON A hot Wednesday evening I'm playing flick-yer-bic with the dial on my television, you know: flick — Three's Company — flick — Masterpiece Theatre ...
Kid Creole & The Coconuts: To The Life Boats
Profile by Carol Cooper, The Face, September 1983
"Strange, how potent cheap music is."– Noel Coward, Private Lives ...
Kid Creole & the Coconuts: Doppelganger (Ze/Island)
Review by Chris Bohn, New Musical Express, 10 September 1983
BETWEEN OFF The Coast Of Me and Doppelganger lies an interval of only three years, yet already the odyssey of Kid Creole's search for his ...
Kid Creole & The Coconuts: City Hall, Newcastle
Live Review by Gavin Martin, New Musical Express, 17 September 1983
A KICK IN THE NUTS ...
Tropic of Creole: The Indiscretions of August Darnell
Memoir by Vivien Goldman, New Musical Express, 24 September 1983
The story so far... We are about to meet SUSANDRA MINSKY, who could be described as August Darnell's first wife, although they never did get ...
Interview by Chris Roberts, Sounds, 19 January 1985
"I'm Kid Creole, the half-breed hero. Add me up, I come to zero" ...
Kid Creole & The Coconuts: Private Waters in the Great Divide (Columbia)
Review by Hank Bordowitz, Spin, July 1990
EVEN WHEN August (Kid Creole) Darnell is writing for records, he's writing soundtracks. Historically, Kid Creole and the Coconuts' tunes worked well in concert, but ...
Retrospective by Michael A. Gonzales, Vibe, May 2000
THINKING BACK to uptown Saturday nights past. I remember staring at my slicky-boy expression (circa 1982) in the bathroom mirror while the infectious 'I'm a ...
Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, September 2002
OFF THE COAST OF ME***FRESH FRUIT IN FOREIGN PLACES*****TROPICAL GANGSTERS***DOPPELGANGER**(All Universal) ...
Kid Creole and the Coconuts: Jazz Café, London
Live Review by Sophie Heawood, The Guardian, 25 January 2006
IN AN EXCHANGE which seems quite fair —we get the Scissor Sisters, the Americans get Gavin Rossdale — US acts often make it big here ...
Retrospective and Interview by Kris Needs, MOJO, July 2008
JUNE 1982: The tall, dapper figure in the silver-grey zoot suit, two-tone shoes and white Panama hat stares at a TV screen in one of ...
Kid Creole: "I'm not a party man anymore"
Retrospective and Interview by Paul Lester, The Guardian, 7 September 2011
He was a zoot-suited wise guy who crooned out hit after hit. Now Kid Creole is back. Paul Lester meets the man who blew a ...
My Kid Creole musical was a hard nut to crack
Retrospective by Vivien Goldman, The Guardian, 20 May 2016
Three decades after I met Kid Creole and the Coconuts while profiling them for NME, their musical Cherchez la Femme has finally reached the New ...
August Darnell: Kid Creole's Alter-Ego Mounts a NY Musical
Report and Interview by Larry Jaffee, Huffington Post, 21 May 2016
THE BREAKOUT HIT from the first Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band album in 1976 was 'Cherchez la Femme', a sublime dance hit that even appealed ...
see also August Darnell
see also Coati Mundi
see also Gichy Dan
see also Don Armando's Second Avenue Rhumba Band
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