Scary Manilow of the Spook Lights

Scary Manilow of the Spook Lights is one of the area’s most entertaining frontmen. The garage-rockabilly four-piece releases their debut 7″ for “Teenage Maniac” tonight at a Replay Lounge show with openers the Mouth Breathers. Thus, we felt it worthwhile to ask Mr. Manilow to explain the legths to which he goes in order to live a life as a rock ‘n’ roll god.

When I’m not onstage blessing an audience with my musical gifts, I’m clouding their minds with drinks at the Replay Lounge. When I’m not flexing my bartending muscles, I’m sacrificing my health for science at the Quintiles Clinical Research facility. For the past fourteen and a half years, Quintiles has afforded me the luxury of pursuing a more worldly lifestyle. In exchange for my blood, urine, sweat, feces, spare time, free will, and preference for a regular, balanced diet, Quintiles grants me a check (or “honorarium” as they call it— how noble!) to the tune of $175 dollars a day… sometimes more!