The lead track on I Wake Up Screaming, the 12th album August Darnell has released as his "tropical gangster" alter ego Kid Creole (the Coconuts are his backing singers), has plenty of wit. That's to ...

On Kid Creole and the Coconuts’ 1981 album Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places (No. 12 on that year’s Pazz & Jop), frontman Thomas August Darnell Browder croons, “Believe me I know, when you leave New York, ...

To mark the 60th birthday of Britain's New Musical Express, here's a classic piece from the paper's vaults: Ian Penman's 1980 homage to August "Kid Creole" Darnell——Barney Hoskyns, Editorial Director, ...

The 1980s party band are hitting the road in the UK for one last time before retiring to their tropical island of Hawaii after five decades of colourful hits and live shows. Kid Creole said ahead of ...

The disco era yielded only one important lyricist, and his name was August Darnell. He wrote tongue-in-cheek satire and sang harmony for Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band. When that group broke up, ...