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Kid Congo Powers: From Gun Play To Monkey Business

Julian Marszalek, The Quietus, 17 December 2009

KID CONGO Powers is a talkative man. Almost every song that he plays tonight at the rammed 100 Club with his new band, the Pink Monkey Birds, is greeted with either an anecdote or dedication. He is by turns engaging, funny and erudite and it's difficult not to warm to him.

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