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   CJ Bellwether (siege@octodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 19:38:38 JST CJ Bellwether

   distracting myself pre-surgery by looking through fun little Kid Creole vids

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMpzTnJVTH8

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     CJ Bellwether (siege@octodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 19:51:59 JST CJ Bellwether

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     if you want to hear the height this funky little beat reaches, this is the best version of it which just goes and goes and goes - best ending to a concert i know

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atJD2AtQ1TQ

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     CJ Bellwether (siege@octodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 19:55:16 JST CJ Bellwether

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     Kid Creole and the Coconuts never broke the US, even though they were a Brooklyn band. All down to the fact radio stations and then MTV didnt know what genre they were - they werent Rock enough, not Funk enough, not R&B enough.. so they just didnt get played. But they were the coolest things most people in the UK and Europe had ever heard so broke through over here because most of us hadnt heard anything so cool before.

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     CJ Bellwether (siege@octodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 20:02:53 JST CJ Bellwether

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     one of their biggest breaks was back when the UK only had 3 tv channels: BBC 1, 2 and ITV - with most bands only performing to recorded versions of themselves on Top of the Pops.

     Then one night in 1982, ITV put on an hour of the Coconuts playing live on a purpose built set (with interview of Kid Creole and Coati Mundi segments inbetween).

     Millions of british people sat down to have their tea over the telly and this came one, it was quite literally the coolest thing many had ever seen.

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUjmfRtu1wQ

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     CJ Bellwether (siege@octodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 20:13:04 JST CJ Bellwether

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     prior to the Coconuts, Creole and Mundi were part of Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band with Creole's brother.

     Then prior to that in '79 Kid Creole was writing songs as part of the disco group Machine which is where most people nowadays might know of his work due to his song "There But For the Grace of God Go I" turning up in the Netflix musical series The Get Down.

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     CJ Bellwether (siege@octodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 20:25:11 JST CJ Bellwether

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     Their downfall as a band came slowly bit by bit from minor friction over their name.

     Because they were in fact formed specifically as a trio Kid Creole (August Darnell), Coati Mundi (Andy Hernandez) and Adriana Kaegi. All who sang and would take center stage at points but they chose their name to call back to bands from the 30s. Which ended with promoters, radio jockeys, and journalists always assuming Kid Creole was the band.

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     X (x@stranger.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 20:33:15 JST X

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     @siege
     There was something about KCatC that felt exotic to me, listening on the far coast of Canada to whatever I could find that was exciting and held the promise of getting out. I can't dance but they got me doing my best!

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     CJ Bellwether (siege@octodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 20:33:15 JST CJ Bellwether

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     @X yes totally, they brought a lot of different sounds that you just didnt hear together with an energy and a style vision that ran counter to everything people thought was correct in terms of music at that time

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     Sleepy time tea bear (sleepytimeteabear@octodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 05:03:59 JST Sleepy time tea bear

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     @siege I’m still so happy you introduced me to them

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     CJ Bellwether (siege@octodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 05:30:17 JST CJ Bellwether

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     @Sleepytimeteabear it is my great pleasure, they're such a root for so many parts of me and so much coming together.

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     Sleepy time tea bear (sleepytimeteabear@octodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 06:20:13 JST Sleepy time tea bear

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     @siege the root of a beautiful flower 😘