#kid-congo-powers

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The Gun Club de Jeffrey Lee Pierce au Terminal Export à Nancy en mars 1992 avec la bassiste Romi Mori et le guitariste Kid Congo Powers. (Photo Maury Golini)

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Source : lydia.lunch.official instagram

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08.18.24 Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds rock out at Union Pool in Brooklyn

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THE GUN CLUB

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BREAKING NEWS: Congo is currently going through a genocide. Millions of people are being killed so for the benefit from its natural resources.

More than 60% of the world’s cobalt reserves are found in Congo, used in the production of computers and smartphones. The DRC is home to what some believe to be the world's biggest lithium deposit. Which is used for batteries of all sizes including electric cars.

European countries are providing financial military aid to invade regions filled with reserves and in the process millions are getting killed and millions homeless.

Multinational mining companies are enslaving people especially children who never had the chance to enroll in school to mine. With the talks of Ukraine and Palestine, meanwhile the Congo is being ‘cleansed’ 🤔

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Kid Congo Powers  *March 27, 1959

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The Cramps in New York, 1982

📸: Curtis Knapp

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The Cramps

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SIOUXSIE SIOUX & KID CONGO @ DISNEYLAND [PHOTOGRAPHY: DONNA SANTISI | early 1980s]

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Sally Norvell singing "Oh Bondage Up Yours!" on her punk stage debut as captured by Will Van Overbook back in 1978 in Austin, Texas, with Cold Sweat, a band that led to the Norvells.

Sally Norvell is an actor, director, writer and producer and most Wim Wenders fans may remember her appearance in "Paris, Texas" (1984) as 'Nurse Bibs' on a rubber horse behind the mirror of the peep show but her curriculum vitae also lists her as a frontwoaman who was central to Austin's punk history right from its inception. Having been one of the early punk rebels that attended the San Antonio show of the Sex Pistols (a game-changing moment for Austin's scene which basically sparked out of conversations between future pioneers in cars heading back to Austin from Randy's Rodeo in the wee hours of Jan. 9, 1978) and also having one of the best female punk voices according to the revered historian of Austin's music scene Margaret Moser, she fronted various bands who all shared members and gigs as an entwined entity, starting with Cold Sweat -who actually opened for The Huns during the notorious Raul's gig that turned into a riot after their singer Phil Tolstead kissed a cop on the lips-as well as The Violators, if I'm not mistaken, and followed by Motor Men, The Gator Family and The Norvells.

An important musical figure in her own right by this point, she spent the '80s leading the revisionist-swing combo Prohibition (also featuring members of Scratch Acid, Poison 13, and Glass Eye) and the '90s in the Congo Norvell, a long-lived partnership with Kid Congo Powers.

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The Cramps - The Left Bank, Mt. Vernon NY. - 5/9/1981

Photo by Ed Steinerts.

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Kid Congo Powers & Lydia Lunch

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"THEY WERE SOME CRAZY MAGIC VOODOO SHOWS AND LUX DID INCREDIBLE THINGS ON STAGE THAT WERE SO DANGEROUS AND CRAZY..."

PIC INFO: Spotlight on American punk rock/psychobilly band THE CRAMPS (Kid Congo Powers & Lux Interior), performing live at the Peppermint Lounge, NYC, USA, c. 1983 or 1984. 📸: Justina Fitzpatrick.

KID CONGO POWERS: "THE CRAMPS were a very spontaneous type of band live. It was all about creating an atmosphere of the wildest thing possible. Lux was the ringleader of all of that and Ivy held it down. They were some wild shows -- especially the European shows. And it was in the era when (especially in the UK) where people spit on you if they liked you and so we were often covered in gob. We were really not going to back down… we were not the backing down type of band. They were some crazy magic voodoo shows and Lux did incredible things on stage that were so dangerous and crazy, from jumping off of speaker stacks, swinging a microphone with the lead so long that you thought he was going to decapitate you -- but he never did. He would tie my legs together with the mic cord and drag me around the stage while I was still playing -- during "Surfin' Bird" usually."

-- NEW YORK NIGHT TRAIN, "KID CONGO POWERS ORAL HISTORY PT. 4"

Source: www.newyorknighttrain.com/zine/issues/1/kidcramps2.html.

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What Is A Group (Short) | Ian F Svenonius | 2016

Kid Congo Powers, Francy Graham

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THE CRAMPS

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