Recently Hipster Runoff posted “People who go to Dan Deacon concerts seem like real bros”. The posting included the following picture with the caption (Previous funnie Dan Deacon meme with a fatbro in the background):

The “fatbro” is Darren Mabee. He’s in the band We Are The Seahorses. And I personally think he has an awesome personal brand that he promotes at his own shows and at other artists shows. Check him out as he gets all crazy at a Gravy Train!!!! show:

CHECK OUT THE INTERVIEW::::::

Are you fans of HRO?
Hipster run off reminds me of that one time when i was attending Grad School at NYU and charlie bukowski sent me a twitter while i was taking notes on my iphone during comparitive spiritual enivormentalism class. I’m just knowledgably indifferent.

How did you find out your picture was on HRO?
my friend amber told me, i got an amber alert

Were you offended?
NO way, I like to have fun. I realize my chosen brand of fun is visual/audio/odor pollution to some but for fucks sake, i’m sorry i made your v neck organic flannel afgan sweater smell funny. If it upsets you enough to throw a couple sentences of comment on a blog post, maybe you should just Stay inside your loft and cuddle your own farts instead of carrying on and on about mine. I know my gas smells like awful, but i’m sure yours smells like word play and boca burgers. So sniff your own ass and leave mine the fuck alone.
The people that, as Carles likes to say, “get it” enjoy themselves. The people that hide behind their coolness or whatever don’t have fun. Plain and simple.

Do you think Carles is racist/sexist/homophobic/anti people that don’t fit into the stereotypical mainstream alt look he hopes will click on his website to create ad revenue? Or do you, as commenter’s say on the site, “get it”.
ok
yesteday, I got paid 9 dollars to listen to my boss carry on and on about mowing the lawn with dwight yoakam blasting from his cd walkman. He told me he loves dwight because dwight “gets” what it was like “before.” So, does that mean carles is “blogging” about what it was like “after”? Do I get it? N/A

Do you think people that genuinely like music should worry about blogging so advertisers will want to pay to advertise on their website?
I think that people that genuinely like music should listen to music. except dwight yoakam fans. They need to just stop talking and give me a raise.

What did you think about the Dan Deacon show?
I had a good time it was like Dan’s 3rd grade birthday party or something and i guess that makes me the univinted deliquent with family problems that licked the icing off of everyones cupcakes and suggested a couple rounds of spin the bottle and made everyone sniff mrs deacons dirty menopause panties I was the corey haim to dan deacons fred savage. All in all, it was great fun though, it reminded me of a giant game of hokey pokey.

Where did you get that amazing underwear?
I have a friend, Chloe, who is a great seamstress. She’s always passing along XL womens underwear that she creates exclusively for shows, and for me to dance around in onstage. One day, I’ll be able to brag that I knew her when she wasn’t famous, and before she was designing for celebrities, she was making things for me to cover in gitter and fake blood.

Tell us about your band: What inspired you to get involved with music and develop the sound that is We Are The Seashorses?
Both my Mom and Dad are musicians and play about a dozen instruments each. I didn’t start playing until I was 9, which was late for my family. Then I took trumpet lessons for 6 years from one of the NJ Symphony’s best percussionists, but truthfully, christ this is embarrassing, I didn’t really like it as much as I liked ska. Without ska, i never would have started a band. I went to warped tour when i was 15 and the highlight was seeing my favorite band, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones. Afterwards we stopped at a truck stop for some veggie burgers and standing next to me in line was Johnny Vegas!! I was fumbling all over myself trying to talk to him, but he was super cool and down to earth. (i still carry his autograph with me to this day!). It was soon after i started my first band, Super Skario Bros with my friends Ernie, Jeff, David, Frank, “Xpac”, Graham and Chloe. We didn’t know how to write songs, so we only covered video game themes from the 80s and early 90s. Well finally senior year came around, we were getting a little older and our attitudes towards music were changing so, we decided to wipe the slate clean. New band name, new songs, new line up, same old ska. We picked the name Folly and hit the ground running. Right before what was going to be our first BIG show, opening for Less Than Jake at the rexplex, I was in serious car accident. I was in a wheel chair for 18 months and gained over 200 pounds. Folly changed directions, going from ska-core to metal-core in my absence, so we parted ways. (Folly are legends now in the NJhardcore scene) I was bumming it until my friend jeff introduced me to fruity loops. After a few months of trying to be the next atom and his package, i decided to take my music in a whole new direction. I joined up with two ex members of SSB (David and Frank, who had just broken up their new ska band, New York Skankees) and formed what would grow into We Are The Sea horses.

Are you fans of Seahorse Liberation Army or The Seahorses?
The S.L.A. are on my Zune, but I don’t like The Seahorses because they fuck up our Google results.

Where do you live and where have you lived?
I live on and off in Baltimore, Brooklyn and New Brunswick, NJ. i spent a couple months in Prague. Right now i’m staying with my mom, busing tables at applebees. But in a months time, who knows. I could be anywhere. I feel that if you are in one place for too long, your art gets stagnant and predictable. For a while, I lived with my fiance in Manhattan, but she dumped me for the lead singer of a shitty band that shall remain nameless. Hint: they soundtracked an iPod commercial. UGH.

That sucks man. On that note, hat do you value about the community or scene in your area?
The bands that drove me to start this band were all local NJ bands. The Ergs and Fuel Dump were two unbelievable New Brunswick, NJ basement bands that I went to see all the time when I was in college. Neither were the most popular, even in the small NJ DIY scene but they both sounded so original, like nothing I was hearing from even semi-underground national sources. They were local bands that played from the heart whether there were 100 people at a show or 2. I always dreamed of playing alongside those bands, and the Seahorses allowed me to do so.

Do you wish that somethings would change?
No, these day, I’m pretty happy in my life. the break up with my girlfriend of two years was real rough, but things are looking up for me. I’m optimistic, you have to be ya know?

Favorite local club/haunt?
I can’t give away the address, but if you’re in New Brunswick, NJ, there’s a place called Geraldo Rivera Hotel that we play secret shows at often. The people that own the place are super nice.

Do you have any personal, political, spiritual, emotional or other views you specifically like to get across with your music?
People seem to have a thing preventing them from exposing their true identities. Even people that are “artistic” seem to be hiding their true personalities from the world. When you go to a Seahorses show, you just check that attitude at the door, and have fun. One of my idols is Wayne Coyne, because before he came around people weren’t able to just have fun and dance around at shows. He came around and said, “Dress up like a teddy bear, put fake blood on your face, it doesn’t matter!” I try to do that at my shows too, but in my own way.

Upcoming tour schedule?
Nothing yet. Suzy’s been really busy making a documentary about local artist Glen Burtnik, whose work is heavily inspired by the New Jersey Turnpike of all places. Once he’s done, we’ll probably go on tour again over the east coast, and maybe beyond.

Do you tour often or play shows often?
Absolutely. We travel all over the east coast, and we hit a lot of basements, DIY spaces and other odd places. One time we soundtracked a women’s roller derby game in Boston. Another time, we played with a bunch of christian rock bands in upstate New York. We like to go to odd places and just share our art with people. I learned early on that you can’t judge a book by it’s cover and the same thing goes for gigs. Sometimes the worst-sounding gigs are the most fun.

Where have you been on tour that you would like to visit again?
Our “biggest” gig was at Irving Plaza in NYC, as a last-minute replacement for a friend’s band. I’d like for us to play there again, but headline this time around. It would be a big accomplishment.

Favorite show you’ve played so far?
It meant a lot to play at our friend Chloe’s fashion show. When you hear “fashion show” the last thing you think of is our band, but she had a lot of crazy designs and fun people. It was a great turnout, and we had a really good time.

Where would you like to visit?
I’ve been so many places, but the one place i really need to see is India. One of my favorite films is Slumdog Millionaire, and since I’ve seen that movie, I’ve been DYING to go there, and experience the culture.

Where have you played that you like?
Northhampton, Baltimore, Brooklyn, all fun cities.

Where would you like to play?
india, lol.

Rad. I loved the Black Lips India Tour Video. Do you like touring or would you like to?
We like touring. Me and Michael and Suzy all have jobs, so when we get together to tour, it’s like a vacation.

What is the biggest obstacle you have when putting a tour together?
We tend to burn a lot of bridges when we play due to the messes we make (and never clean up), so it’s hard to find places that are willing to have us back.

Upcoming tour schedule?
Nothing yet. Suzy’s been really busy making a documentary about local artist Glen Burtnik, whose work is heavily inspired by the New Jersey Turnpike of all places. Once he’s done, we’ll probably go on tour again over the east coast, and maybe beyond.

Booking information?
Just hit us up on our MySpace (http://www.myspace.com/wearetheseahorses) and send us a message. We’re willing to travel anywhere, so don’t be shy.