The Loconuts... Imagine a Carribian nightmare blended with a banana daquiri wearing facepant and singing into a microphone.  A liquored up conga line ain't nothing to scoff at.  Not now, not ever.


Chief Magazine: So you’re in this band and you're in two other bands, right?

The Loconuts: They’re not really my bands.  My band is Avenue D, which I don’t want to talk about in this article. I’ve just been trying to work on new projects and do new things.  So right now, I’m just getting together with all different kinds of people and trying to make music, work with people I’ve been meaning to work with. And sort of figure out what my next thing is going to be.

Loconuts was just started because this girl wanted Avenue D to play at her fashion show for fashion week, and she had this big show with press and we weren’t available and we thought it was such a shame because it sounded like so much fun.  I kinda threw the Loconuts together two weeks before this show, like who wanted to be in this crazy band who wants to perform at this show, and it ridiculously happened at the last minute.

And you had fun?

We did like three songs, a short set.  We just kinda made it up on the spot.  The idea--which we haven't actually done yet--was going to be like this traveling party, conga line...  Things in the music scene were getting kinda stale and we thought it would be funny if our costumes were really pushy. Kinda like we just conga in to some club, do our thing, and conga right back out, and hit every single club in one night and people would just be like, "What the hell?"  Just to make everything fun.

We played once at Studio B and this was this crazy blizzard in the winter and there was six feet of snow and they had this Spring Break party at Studio B which was just retarded, and the Loconuts played.

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When you started it, was this just going to be a joke, just to be hilarious?

It was an excuse to start a new band.  Avenue D started on accident, and we're trying to use the same formula, just do something that’ll be funny or fun or entertaining.  We wrote some songs that were funny and had some choreography.  The group of people is just totally insane.