Tiki King and the Idol Pleasures

About Me

Tiki King and the Idol Pleasures. A tasty mix of scotch soaked jazz punk exotica noir! grab a drink and listen up. It's the best thing you'll do all day.
Oh, and while yer enjoying the tunes, don't forget to check out the goods...click Here! C'mon now, its how we make drinkin' money.
What, you want us sober? Sheesh!

Hey! Here is a video of us at the Museum of making music!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/6/2006
Band Website: http://www.tikiking.com/idol
Band Members: Tiki King and the Idol Pleasures is made up of members of well known bands including the Nora Cruz Band, No Excuse, WAH!, 321, Mehitabel, monkeyboy, and others. brought together by a mutual love of whisky, exotica, ukuleles, and chinese food, their mission is a simple one. play music, drink whisky and eat chinese food. but not necessarily always in that order. So who does what? Well, Tiki King plays the Ukulele and sings between drinks, Turk plays lead Keyboards, and also Baritone Ukulele. Buy him a shot of Rum, He deserves it! Jeff, well he plays the string bass when he's not sneaking vodka from his ever present flask. Then there is Matthew. Matthew sits back behind the drums keeping everyone on time. There is a rumor that his floor tom conceals a mini bar, but you'll have to find out for yourself.
Influences: Scotch, Gin, Rum and Vodka
Sounds Like: If a perfectly made cocktail was a sound, you would hear us in every sip.
Record Label: Round, with a hole in the center. Says "Side A"

My Blog

The girl is gone...

The girl is no longer with us. She has left the band to devote more time to her roller derby carreer. So while we are sad that we no longer have the sweet sound of her guitars, we are comforted by the...
Posted by on Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:36:00 GMT

tour blog

So our trip down south to play some gigs this past week-end started with a bang. Well, actually it was a couple hours into the trip, just north of San Luis Obispo. There we were crusing up the hill, I...
Posted by on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:50:00 GMT

NAMM Show 2008

Went to NAMM 2008over the weekend, and wow! More Ukulele than ever! Fleamarket music/ Magic Fluke was there showing off my new designs. You can see the photos I took here: namm_2008.html Then I took ...
Posted by on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:11:00 GMT

Tiki Mug Fluke Ukulele!

The Tiki Mug Fluke Ukulele is Here!buy yours at the online store at:www.tikiking.com
Posted by on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:12:00 GMT

upcoming show...

Ukulele Noir WestFeaturing:Craig RobertsonTippy Canoe and the PaddlemenVictoria VoxTiki King and the Idol PleasuresKelly McCubbin8:00 pmSaturday, Oct. 20th$15.00DaSilva Ukulele Company2547 8th Street,...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:07:00 GMT

stuff, and more stuff...

Holy Forbidden Tikis!! I'll be at Forbidden Island with my little grass shack on Sunday, Sept.23rd. 2:00 to 7:00 pm. with all kinds of Tiki and Ukulele goddies. Forbidden Island Is Alameda's own Awa...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:35:00 GMT

Upcoming events

First up is....The Ukulele and you! a couple of Tiki King's custom Ukulelesare going to be on display at the NAMM Museum of making music, in a show entitled"The Ukulele and You:America's Enduring Love...
Posted by on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:37:00 GMT

Friend Requests

So you want to be friends with Tiki King and the Idol Pleasures do ya? Well, thats just grand! Lets have a drink and chat about our mutual intrests...hmmmmm.... looking at your profile, I don't see an...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:54:00 GMT

what the hell are we?

I am often asked what kind of music we play. It usually goes like this: Them: "So you play the Ukulele?" Me: "Yep, I am in a band called Tiki King and the idol Pleasures" Them: "What kind of mus...
Posted by on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:58:00 GMT

Tiki King gets mention in newspaper

Wow! Tiki King got a mention in the Hartford Courant Newspaper. They did a nice article on the Beloffs/Fleamarket Music/Magic Fluke. If you click on the picture of the Tiki Flea, there ...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:34:00 GMT