Kid Congo Powers + The Pink Monkey Birds
October 26 @ 7:30 pm
$18 – $23Tickets here
Kid Congo Powers + The Pink Monkey Birds
with SLIM CESSNA’S AUTO CLUB
Time: 7:30pm Day: Saturday Doors: 6:30pm
Ages: 21+ without parent or guardian Price: $18-23
Tumbleroot is a mostly-standing-room venue. Limited seating available.
KID CONGO POWERS + THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS
Kid Congo Powers is a Brown, queer, underground punk glam rock guitar legend who grew up in the East L.A. suburb of La Puente, California. His work over decades with worldwide bands places him firmly in the L.A. and international punk music scene. He has been in The Cramps, The Gun Club, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds. He returns to the spotlight with a new album, video and even a line of eyewear.
SLIM CESSNA’S AUTO CLUB
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club play country gospel with a fervor that seems to emanate from a punk pulpit. The group’s leader, Slim Cessna, a tall, lanky gentleman with a gold tooth and large white hat, sings in a high-lonesome voice and yodel, and “preaches” with conviction. (Sample sentiment from “Last Song About Satan”: “So I said, Lucifer you piece of sh*t/I should kick your ass right where you sit…/My mother cries because of you.”) The group released its self-titled debut in 1995; the album was tweaked and reissued in September 2001. By the time of 2000’s Always Say Please and Thank You (released on the Jello Biafra punk label Alternative Tentacles), Auto Club’s lineup included Danny Pants, Reverend Dwight Pentacost, Jay Munly (who has released records as Munly De Har He), John Rumley (who builds instruments at the Denver Folklore Center), and Ordy Garrison. Despite the fact that Cessna moved to his wife’s home state of Rhode Island and Pentacost took up residence in Chicago, the band remained Denver-based, performing there regularly. In 2004 the group released The Bloudy Tenant Truth Peace, followed by 2005’s Jesus Let Me Down (which came out on Smooch Records) and Cipher (back on Alternative Tentacles) in 2008. A collection of eight rarities and outtakes by the group titled Buried Behind the Barn was released in 2010. Unentitled was scheduled for a 2011 release.~ Erik Hage