#kid congo powers

[all-rock-and-roll-is-homosexual]

The Cramps in New York, 1982

📸: Curtis Knapp

#lux interior #poison ivy rorschach #kid congo powers #nick knox #the cramps

[guerrilla-operator]

THE CRAMPS

#the cramps #lux interior #poison ivy #kid congo powers #psychobilly #punk rock #gothabilly #nick knox #surf #punk

[undergroundrockpress]

Gun Club / Kid Congo Powers and Jeffrey Lee Pierce. Sydney, 1983. Photo : David Laing.

#rock photography #Gun Club #David Laing #1983 #Kid Congo Powers #Jeffrey Lee Pierce

[theunderestimator-2]

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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#sally norvell #the norvells #austin #early punk scene #punk #punk rock #1978 #cosld sweat #the gator family #motor men #prohibition #congo norvell #kid congo powers #paris teas #wim wenders

[disease]

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

#siouxsie sioux #kid congo powers #donna santisi #disneyland #music history #80s #black and white #monochrome #siouxsie and the banshees #photography #u #FAVE

[braveexhibitions]

The Cramps

#the cramps #lux interior #poison ivy #kid congo powers #80s #gothic #punk rock #psychobilly #rockabilly #punk #horror punk #queer icons #queer stuff #I love you kid Congo

[bitter69uk]

Happy 65th birthday to iconic Mexican American punk musician, former guitarist in The Cramps, The Gun Club and Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, author, raconteur and perennially suave mofo – Señor Kid Congo Powers (born Brian Tristan, 27 March 1959)! I haven’t read his memoirs Some New Kind of Kick yet – but I clearly need to. Pictured: Powers with The Cramps photographed by Curtis Knapp in New York, 1982.

#kid congo powers #the cramps #the gun club #the bad seeds #nick cave and the bad seeds #punk #punk rock #punkabilly #latinx #lobotomy room #los angeles punk #lgbtqia #some new kind of kick

[gotankgo]

Donna Santisi is a photographer who documented the LA Punk scene in the early 80s, as well as shooting several iconic record covers, including the Cramps’ Psychedelic Jungle, the inner sleeve photos for The Name of This Band, Is Talking Heads, and the cover for the Pretenders’ Learning To Crawl. She also took these…

“One day Siouxsie Sioux wanted to go to Disneyland. It was Sioux, Kid Congo, Randy Kaye, and me. Sioux was really excited when we got there but once we were on Main Street, two security men came up to her and told her she had to leave. They said that she looked like an attraction and it would confuse the people in the park. Siouxsie was telling the men that she just wanted to see everything and go on the rides. They finally agreed that Sioux could stay if she covered up with Randy’s raincoat. We were followed all day by several security people with walkie talkies.”

«Though some credit this to being from Disneyland, it is likely this photo with Frankenstein’s Monster is from another time.»

#Donna Santisi #siouxsie sioux #kid congo powers

[spilladabalia]

Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds (ft. Alice Bag) - "Wicked World"

#kid congo & the pink monkey birds #wicked world #kid congo powers #kiki solis #ron miller #alice bag #garage punk #punk blues #psychobilly #that delicious vice #2024 #Youtube

[musickickztoo]

Kid Congo Powers  *March 27, 1959

#kid congo powers #the gun club #the cramps #nick cave and the bad seeds #the pink monkey birds #march 27

[ent-mbed]

#not sure if anyone has posted this yet but !! #the cramps #nick knox #kid congo powers #poison ivy rorschach #lux interior #psychobilly #garage rock #rock n roll

[queerbauten]

Kid Congo Powers, Nick Cave, Blixa Bargeld, and Roland Wolf, c. mid-1980. Photographer unknown, because people online would rather die than credit photographers. (If you have any leads—help, bitte!!)

#Kid Congo Powers #Nick Cave #Blixa Bargeld #Roland Wolf #Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds #eye contact #wrists tw #death mention

[merdum7]

Kid Congo Powers & Patricia Morrison

#kid congo powers #patricia morrison

[undergroundrockpress]

The Cramps, 1981.

#rock photography #The Cramps #1981 #1980s #new wave fanzine #nick knox #kid congo powers #poison ivy #lux interior #underground press

[theunderestimator-2]

Kid Congo Powers (literally) on fire:

here captured by Larry Hardy while playing for the Cramps on July 25th, 1981, at The Roxy Theatre, Hollywood, CA, with the Gun Club opening, Kid's hair caught fire during the show.

"If I wanted to make an impression on the hometown crowd, then the show on the second night would not be forgotten in a hurry. Halfway through our set, we’d play Lux and Ivy’s song “I Was a Teenage Werewolf,” which would segue into a version of Dwight Pullen’s “Sunglasses After Dark.” While the audience was hypnotized by an assault of feedback, rhythm, and flashing strobes, Nick Knox would duck down behind his drums to retrieve a pair of dark sunglasses and put them on, and Lux would yank his out of his pants, giving him an opportunity to do one of his favorite things onstage—expose himself. Ivy and I would turn our backs to the audience and walk toward our amps, on top of which we had votive candles and our prop sunglasses. Then we would all turn around again and reveal ourselves, cast in shades. That night, I leaned just a little too far over my amp to fetch my sunglasses. A spark leapt up from the candle onto my hair, and, whooosh, it all went up in flames, igniting the Aqua Net Extra Super Hold hair spray I’d used to make my Ronnie Spector hairdo even more voluminous. The whole outer shell of my hair was now alight, like a flaming wig-hat. Except I didn’t know I was on fire because, one, I couldn’t see the top of my head, and two, I was wearing sunglasses. Girls in the audience started screaming. Wow, this is so great, I thought. Who would know the Cramps would inspire something like Beatlemania in LA? Seconds later, Bradley Field, who was tour-managing for us, put a damper on things by running out from the wings and showering me with beer. Then Nick Knox jumped over his drums and beat me on the head with his sticks. Wait a minute, I thought. Was I playing that badly? What did I do to deserve this? By the time I realized what was happening, the flames had been extinguished. The smell of burnt hair lingered, wafting through the entire venue like a funeral pyre of human flesh. The screaming turned to cheering. Without missing a beat, Lux, great shaman that he was, announced to the audience, “Ladies and gentlemen, the days of miracles have not passed. We present to you Kid Congo . . . the burning bush.” Kid Congo, “Some New Kind of Kick”

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#kid congo #kid congo powers #the cramps #the gun club #early punk scene #punk #punk rock #live gig #psychobilly #people

[iamdangerace]

#romi mori #jeffrey lee pierce #nick sanderson #kid congo powers #the gun club