With her provocative and demented stage antics, her rags, dragged-up look and outsized wigs she found her way into the early New York punk scene, which was the perfect place for her legendary performances. Supported by her band The Electric Chairs, she wrote the fabled song Max's Kansas City, which became one of the hymns of the days. In 1978, when she toured Britain, the magazine Der Spiegel put her on the cover for their front page story, "Punk, Kultur aus den Slums: brutal und häßlich" it was the first german major coverage of the theme and helped her to become one of the role models for the scene. Jayne is still working with various groups and will be supported by Colognes Kick-Ass-Rock&Roller Dumbell at the Jayne County was born in 1947 as Wayne Rogers in Dallas, Georgia. Her family and neighborhood was dominated by women. Very early she began to dress in girls clothing. In the conservative and prudish environment of Dallas in the early 60ties you needed to be quite skillful and imaginative to do so. First of all homosexuality was prohibited by the law. A man wearing women's clothes came close to a deadly sin and getting caught by the police in drags could end in a shoot-out. Nevertheless or maybe just because of those circumstances Jayne has her first public appearance in the Looking Glass Club in Atlanta with her band Queen Elizabeth. In 1968 she moved to New York because there one freak more would be less noticable. She collaborates with Andy Warhol and Patti Smith on various theater projects. During the seventies she founds the band The Electric Chairs. In 1978 their debut album of the same name comes out. Storm The Gates Of Heaven and Things Your Mother Never Told You followed in 1979. While the music is classic Rock & Roll, played hard and loud, the lyrics deal with various subjects from cross dressing, punk, sex with the devil to childhood memorys and her time in Berlin. With her outrageous and offensive shows in New York Jaynes fame spread over to Europe in the seventies. Unforgettable was her appearance at the german Rockpalast. Her act is not only about filthy lyrics drags and rags it is also about vigorous Rock & Roll. Jayne County is always giving her best, so that by the end of her shows her female make-up has often turned into an Alice Cooper look. Later she disappeared into the Berlin underworld, where she appears next to Angie Stardust and Tron von Hollywood in Stadt der verlorenen Seelen, a film by Rosa von Praunheim. In Berlin she also completes her sex-change. For the last thirty years Jayne played regularly at concerts, worked as a Dj at various events wrote theater plays like Birth Of A Nation or Memory Lane. In 1996 Jayne County published her very entertaining autobiography with the significant title Man Enough To Be A Woman. A truth that she will unquestionably demonstrate at the Kongress. |
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