Kid Congo and The Pink Monkey Birds are proud to announce a West Coast Tour supporting our INTHERED records release,"Dracula Boots" , this October 09. Dracula Boots got 9 out of 10 stars in N.M.E. and this review: Anyone who ever played with LA blues punks The Gun Club should be afforded the status of rock’n’roll legend. The fact that Brian Tristan – aka Kid Congo Powers – followed such a feat by playing with both The Cramps and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds means the man is beyond mere mortal categorisation.
This is Powers’ second album with The Pink Monkey Birds, and it sees him returning to his roots with a set of raw and raucous garage rock so primitive that it was actually recorded through the shitty PA of a high school gymnasium somewhere in the Midwest. You can just imagine the scene – a B-movie called something like Hell On Wheels and directed by Roger Corman, with a motley crew of leather-clad juvenile delinquents roaring off on their motorbikes after causing a rumpus at the prom; The Pink Monkey Birds’ ‘Hitchhiking’ is blasting over the top.
But this is not just a collection of straight-up garage nuggets, there are nods to Powers’ Chicano roots with
a cover of Thee Midniters’ spectacularly dumb ‘I Found A Peanut…’ and, courtesy of bassist Kiki Solis and drummer Ron Miller, there’s a real groove here. ‘Funky Fly’ (actually a cover of a track from Bo Diddley’s obscure ‘Black Gladiator’ album) and ‘Black Santa’ sound like The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion circa ‘Orange’, without the added annoyance of someone shouting “blooooze explosion!” every five seconds, while ‘Bobo Boogie’ and ‘Kris Kringle Ju Ju’ strut like The Meters in their prime. In short, on ‘Dracula Boots’ Kid Congo Powers has once again found the juicy jugular of soul-fired, funked-up rock’n’roll. You’d be foolish not to take a bite. ....Nathaniel Cramp
More details as they come but for now start making plans!
Sep 25 2009
The Milestone Charlotte, North Carolina
Sep 26 2009
STAR COMMUNITY BAR Atlanta, Georgia w/ Subsonics
Oct 7 2009
Alex’s Bar Long Beach, California (W/ Haunted George!)
Oct 8 2009
Bar Pink San Diego, California
Oct 9 2009
ECHO/ acoustic/spoken word show supporting John Doe & Exene ..Los Angeles, California
Oct 10 2009
Juke Joint... Anaheim w/Haunted George and DJ Howie Pyro!
Oct 11 2009
ECHO/Kid Congo and Pink Monkey Birds/Part Time Punks Fest Los Angeles, California
Oct 12 2009
Crepe Place Santa Cruz, California
Oct 13 2009
Hemlock Tavern San Francisco, California
Oct 14 2009
OFF ANYWHERE, California
Oct 15 2009
Sunset Tavern Seattle, Washington
Oct 16 2009
???? TBA Olympia, Washington
Oct 17 2009
VICE/SCION Garage Festival /Berbatis Pan Portland
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10/17/09 at 6:00 PM
Where
Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Santa Cruz, Log Beach, San Diego etc. Map
