We're playing all over Europe and most of the UK from 10.28 to 12.5 this year. Would love to meet fellow Ilxers if I happen across your town. Let me know where you are and I'll tell you if we'll be in the vicinity.
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 16:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 16:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 16:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 16:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 16:54 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2013/05/08/the-hypnagogic-states-of-kid-congo-powers/
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 11 May 2013 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
Holy crap! Kid Congo Powers was a poster here?!!#
― Drugs A. Money, Saturday, 11 May 2013 16:37 (eleven years ago) link
Oh wait nm sorry
― Drugs A. Money, Saturday, 11 May 2013 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
yes, it appears. No need to be sorry
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 11 May 2013 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
Ha, to clarify -- Captain Jay Vee is his own good soul but yes, he was playing with Kid Congo at the time.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 11 May 2013 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah search engine tells me that I am not the first poster to do this.
― Drugs A. Money, Saturday, 11 May 2013 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
Anyways, great line in that article (from Ian Svenonius) : He loves garage rock because it is the ancient language that's pure and beautiful. But, not like, 'everything should be the way it was in 1963.'"
― Drugs A. Money, Saturday, 11 May 2013 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks. Kid was spinning a bunch of great obscure songs that night referenced in the article. This was interesting too: Kid plays guitar in the same bluesy, open-tuning style Jeffrey Lee Pierce taught him when they formed The Gun Club;
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 11 May 2013 17:23 (eleven years ago) link
Ten years later I just saw Kid Congo do a book talk in DC interviewed by Joe Lally from Fugazi. He talked about how he got into music when he was young, sewing and making own clothes to go to Rodney Bingenheimer’s glam dance club thing, starting a Ramones zine, meeting Jeffrey Lee Pierce in line to see Pere Ubu, working at record stores, how he joined the Cramps and how charismatic and wonderful Lux was onstage and more .
― curmudgeon, Monday, 2 October 2023 19:12 (eight months ago) link