As a cornerstone of The Gun Club as well as a sometime member of both The Cramps and Nick Cave's Bad Seeds (not to mention a former housemate of Lydia Lunch), Kid Congo Powers was never going to write a dull memoir.
Ahead of Some New Kind Of Kick's publication today, Daniel Dylan Wray spoke to the guitarist for the Guardian. The interview gives a flavour of his tempestuous musical career and of a thrill-seeking life lived very much on the edge (until he got sober in the late 1980s, at least).
Further evidence that Powers is a man whose story and opinions are well worth investigating: his episode Amoeba's What's In My Bag?, in which he picks out records by Swans, Bush Tetras, Goblin and Dusty Springfield, among others. It's one of the very best, in my view.
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