#kid-congo-powers

[undergroundrockpress]

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

Photo by Ed Steinerts.

[guerrilla-operator]

THE CRAMPS

[reality-detective]

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’ 🤔

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

The Cramps in New York, 1982

📸: Curtis Knapp

[jgthirlwell]

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

[disease]

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

[iamdangerace]

1985

The year in which Kid Congo Powers and Patricia Morrison (then both still members of the Gun Club and tired of Jeffrey's antics) formed Fur Bible and played backup for the Legendary Stardust Cowboy at an Amsterdam show.

[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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[musickickztoo]

Kid Congo Powers  *March 27, 1959

[boxforblackpaul]

The Cramps

[ozu-teapot]

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

Kid Congo Powers, Francy Graham

[undergroundrockpress]

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

[tagmusicblog]

?????? 🤨🤨🤨🤨

(from kid congo's book, A New Kind Of Kick, regarding his time in the Bad Seeds)

[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.

[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!!)

[saramencken]