Lot's of Kid stuff News.

Hey everyone. A flurry of activity and plans to report. First, Tonight Monday July 6 at 10pm I am Dj-ing with my pal Kalani at Local 16 for a new record playing night called "Rare as The Yeti". We will be playing vintage soul, garage, freakbeat, 70's glam, funk and punk till 1am or so. Drop on by this opening night for post 4th of July blues breaking.
The LSDC remix contest at Track and Fields is closed and now The Pink Monkey Birds and I will go into deliberations as to whom will be the winner, whom will be featured on our myspace page and on the b-side on one of a series of 7inch 45's we will be recording in October sometime . Some real cuckoo crazies got ahold of the stems and twisted our wigs! Watch this spot next Monday to hear the winning mix. In the meantime you can listen to the mixes at the Track and Fields website and if you sign up, can cast a vote of your own to influence us!
In the works is a
Kid Congo and The Pink Monkey Birds West Coast US tour in the month of October . Hurrah!
ALSO amidst a gaggle of great reviews for our album "Dracula Boots" on INTHERED, we are booking a return European tour in November/December, which WILL include UK dates!
Video artists Rob Parrish and Paris Bustillos are working on a video for the song "Rare as The Yeti". Coming soon!
Our friend from the Spacy Stardust radio show in Frankfurt posted this video of us at Das Bett playing the old Gun Club classic, Sex Beat! What a gas it was!
Also our pal Acid Marshmallow posted a video of almost our entire in-store performance at Permanent Records in Chicago. This special feature includes special guest Jason Ward, whom recorded and mixed Dracula Boots. He also wailed the organ parts on our version of Thee Midniters "I Found a Peanut" and "la Lllarona" and does so here live. The first 5 minutes or so is our "sound check" but then we take off! It was much fun in the most awesome record store.
More news as it comes. best, KCP

LSDC Remix Contest ends July 4! Listen to entries so far!

LSDC REmix contest ends July 4. Get to it. Listen to the entries so far! Vote for yer fave!

TracksAndFields.com - Collaborate on a session, remix music, submit your song.
Source: www.tracksandfields.com
Make music online. Work on your music production with other musicians recording at home. Remix songs!

NY NIGHT TRAIN INVADES DC! 6/27 SATURDAY!

New York Night Train Happening is the latest spectacular multimedia party of Mr. Jonathan Toubin, the DJ/Conceptualist behind such legendary NYC parties such as Glasslands’ Animal Train Happening and Santos Party House’s
DECLASSIFIED! Yet another step towards the revival and revision of the New York nightlife underground’s proudest and most ambitious tradition, THE HAPPENING is inspired by everything from Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic
Inevitable, which fused lights, projection, live music, performance, and dance under the
same umbrella, to similar examples spanning from the disco to early new wave era in
spaces like Club 57, their New Wave Vaudeville Show, and the Mudd Club.
Past happenings haven’t only seen collaborations with galleries/artists such as Secret Project Robot, Live With Animals, and Mikilandia Productions, and been filmed by the likes of the father of avant-garde cinema, the Factory’s Jonas Mikas, but
have also included appearances by many generations of subcultural icons such as
Genesis P-Orridge, Andrew W.K., Quintron and Ms. Pussycat, King Khan and the BBQ, Ian Svenonius, Calvin Johnson, James Chance, Gibby Haynes, The Slits, Jon Spencer, and many more. Initially conceived as a reaction to, on one hand, the assembly-line ho-hum of rock show presentation, and, on the other, the aesthetic bankruptcy and soul-less nature of the contemporary dance party, Toubin’s happenings have developed into a mighty rock and roll wrecking ball demolishing the
boundaries between art, performance, and nightlife - revealing the pearly disco ball at its core – the best rock dance parties the 21st Century has yet to offer.
This first edition of New York Night Train Happening features live music by Edie Sedgwick, Exactly, Kid Congo Powers (Cramps, Gun Club, Bad Seeds, etc), performance by and go go artist Anna Copa Cabanna and Hula Hoop Harlot Melissa Anne, and live non-digital film projection by Spencer Bewley (Place to Bury Strangers,
Warlocks, Death In Vegas, etc) and DJ sets by Mr. Jonathan Toubin. Expect a participatory spectacle in which all of the performers to play all sorts of roles on and off stage in all sorts of unpredictable configurations (
Melissa, Anna, and Kid collaborating, etc. (!)).
If you think this sounds like a bras d’ honneur in the face of the mediocre, unimaginative, and economically exclusionary day-to-day mechanics of 21st Century art, music, and nightlife in general, you are correct. Now that New York Night Train has sparked a revolution in Empire City shows, dance club nights, and art events, it is now changing
the way people go out around the world – restoring and renovating proud traditional underground aesthetics ... town by town. All aboard!
Saturday, June 27, 2009 at 10:30pm- 3:00am
Location:
Civilian Art Projects
406 7 Street NW, SECOND FLOOR (NEW!)
Washington, DC
Phone:
2023470022
Email:
info@civilianartprojects.com

SOLO SHOW Saturday in Brooklyn

Host:
NEW YORK NIGHT TRAIN HAPPENING #1
- live music: HEALTH (10pm), Awesome Color (9pm), Kid Congo Powers (solo show) (1am)
- dancing all night with DJs: Josh Styles, Mr. Jonathan Toubin, and Fitz (11pm on)
- performance: Lone Wolf & Cub, Anna Copa Cabanna, and Hula Hoop Harlot Melissa Anne (throughout the night)
- visuals: Mighty Robot’s AV Squad and Spencer Bewley (after 11pm)
Saturday, June 20, 8pm - outdoors at 979 Broadway
after 11pm - indoors across the street at 5 Stuyvesant Ave, $10
sponsored by Williamsburg's Main Drag Music for all yr rock and roll needs!
Now for something new! New York Night Train, Panache Booking, and Todd P have banded together for the first time to present the NYC’s latest and greatest multi-media spectacle, NEW YORK NIGHT TRAIN HAPPENING #1! More fun, exciting, and interactive than a rock show! More artful, organic, live, and interesting than a dance-party! Picture the union of the underground rock, art, dance party, and performance scenes under one roof! Now you no longer have to regret living in the wrong time! Don’t just read about it! Don’t just dream it! Live it - the legendary nightlife experiences that you always imagined! A contemporary underground DIY rock and roll take on historical NYC subcultural landmarks such as Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable! Ladies and gentlemen - we have finally arrived!
Start Time:
Saturday, June 20, 2009 at 8:00pm
End Time:
Sunday, June 21, 2009 at 6:00am
Location:
979 BROADWAY OUTSIDE
Street:
979 Broadway btwn Myrtle Ave & Ditmars St
City/Town:
Brooklyn, NY

CHICAGO LIVE GIG JUNE 6 and INSTORE June 7th

Fresh off our Europen "Dracula Boots" tour, Kid Congo and The Pink Monkey Birds will be playing in Chicago at Metronome Festival. Saturday June 6.
Noon - 10PM.... $5!!!!!!!!

10:00 Official After Party @ Empty Bottle w/ John Vanderslice

8:30 John Vanderslice

7:00 Here We Go Magic

5:30 Apostle of Hustle

4:00 Kid Congo Powers and The Pink Monkey Birds

2:30 Rock Plaza Central

1:00 Turbo Fruits


Sunday 7th In Store performance at Permanent Records at 3pm. http:​/​/​www.​myspace.​com/​permanentwax Looking forward to some Chi-Town Boogaloo! Dig! Thanks

German shows this Week!

German shows this week!
Hey, now Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds are rocking Germany this week on the DRACULA BOOTS tour. Already ULm was fantastic in the not so former Strip Bar, The Eden Club. Tonight, Mothers day Sunday May 10th, we are at Babalou/Pop Club. Friends and foes please attend. Then we are May 13th in Koln, at Underground Club, May 14th in my former home, Berlin at Privat Club. This show is extra special as my dear friend and colleague KHAN http://www.myspace.com/khanoffinland
will be performing as well! This will be night of Psychedelic boogaloo! Then May 15th in Hamburg at Silber (ex-Tanzehalle) and outr final show at Das Bett in Frankfurt. Thanks and see you there. Wear your DRACULA BOOTS!

REMIX "LSDC" CONTEST!

REMIX "LSDC" CONTEST!
http:​/​/​www.​tracksandfields​.​com/​studio.​php?​viewSessionId=​745
Hello there from the DRACULA BOOTS tour in Europe! This is too announce the launch of a remix contest for the song "LSDC" off our Dracula Boots album on INTHERED records. This is in conjunction with TRACK AND FIELDS remix community site out of Berlin.

The winner will get their mix featured on our MYSPACE page, a free CD and who knows what else? .... Sign up and download the stems and get to remixing! here is the web address:

http:​/​/​www.​tracksandfields​.​com/​studio.​php?​viewSessionId=​745
Live Dates left on DRACULA Boots Tour!
May 4 2009 8:00P
Saint Ex Bordeaux
May 5 2009 8:00P
Mistrial Valence
May 8 2009 8:00P
Eden ULM
May 10 2009 8:00P
Babalu/Popclub Munich
May 13 2009 8:00P
Underground Koln
May 14 2009 8:00P
Privatclub Berlin
May 15 2009 8:00P
Silber (ex-Tanzhalle) Hamburg
May 16 2009 8:00P
Das Bett Frankfurt
then back inthe US:
Jun 6 2009 4:00P
Metronome Celebration Festival Chicago, Illinois

have fun! All the best, Kid Congo and The Pink Monkey Birds
http://kidcongopowers.blogspot.com/
www.myspace.com/kidcongoandthepinkmonkeybirds