artist: Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds
venue: 4AD Club, Diksmuide, Belgium
date: 2009-Apr-17 (17th of April 2009)

other band: Slim Cessna's Auto Club

line-up: Kid Congo (vocals/guitar)/ Kiki Solis (bass)/ Jesse (guitar)/ Ron Miller (drums)

total time: 44:42

tracks:
1. Hitchhiking
2. Rare As The Yeti
3. Sex Beat [The Gun Club]
4. I Found A Peanut [Thee Midniters]
5. Pumpkin Pie (*)
6. Black Santa
7. La LLarona
8. Funky Fly [Bo Diddley]
9. LSDC
10.Kris Kringle Ju Ju
11.I'm Cramped [The Cramps]
12.For The Love Of Ivy [The Gun Club]

13.Black Bag

Notes: (*)largely vocal-less because Kid's 2nd mic was not working.
Kick-off of their 18 date European tour.

lineage: DAT audience master

equipment: Core Sound Binaurals mics>SONY TCD-D100
FOSTEX D5>TASCAM CD-RW 700
EAC>CD Wave Editor (track splitting)>TLH 2.4.1 (level 8)

Play L-O-U-D over real speakers!

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On his new album, DRACULA BOOTS, out March 2009 on INTHERED Records, the legendary Kid Congo Powers returns to the psychedelic jungle with a stripped down, no frills set of volcanic songs. Kid, the premier voodoo guitarist for seminal sexy swampy bands like Gun Club, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and The Cramps is a restless aesthete. He used his earlier solo efforts to explore vocals and mix genres.
With DRACULA BOOTS, Kid comes back to his roots as a crackerjack guitarist playing the primitive music that inspired him; the raw sounds of garage and early Chicano rock. It only made sense to record such glittering gems as Thee Midniters "I Found A Peanut" and Bo Diddley's "Funky Fly" in a high school gymnasium. He did this in a Midwest town called Harveyville with his nefarious Pink Monkey Birds. Bassist Kiki Solis from El Paso,TX. and Drummer Ron Miller from Macon,Ga. provided the southern soul sauce needed to fuel the engine of the rhythm train. Recording on a stage using the old PA system created a natural reverb, summoning the magic of a bygone prom interrupted by a juvenile delinquent rumble.

The original songs on DRACULA BOOTS go from loud, fuzzy biker rock (Hitchhiking) to a greasy rump shaker groove (Bobo Boogie), from a scary movie soundtrack (La Llarona) to The Meters having an acid flashback (Black Santa). So sink your teeth into this hunk of wax and waste no time strapping on your DRACULA BOOTS.

You will dance your way from the cradle to the grave, and beyond.