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IGOR BASIN
MICHAEL "PANKOW" BOEHLKE
BOONARAAAS!
BOY FROM BRAZIL
SEZGIN BOYNIK
BUZZCOCKS
CHEETAH CHROME
CZD
DEAN DIRG
RONALD GALENZA
HENRYK GERICKE
THOMAS GROETZ
DICK HEBDIGE
ALFRED HILSBERG
STEWART HOME
SIEGFRIED KALUS
THE KIDS
THOMAS LAU
MARLENE MARDER
MALCOLM MCLAREN
LEGS MCNEIL
PADELUUN
BERT PAPENFUSS
MARK PERRY
HARRY RAG
ROCKET FROM THE TOMBS
SEDLMEIR
ANDY SHERNOFF
MARTY THAU
TOKYO SEX DESTRUCTION
VIVA L'AMERICAN DEATH RAY MUSIC
Wayne County, later Jayne County, personifies the idea of punk as being weird, shrill and fierce more than anyone else from the emergent punk generation.

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 Punk! Kongress. A combination that promises an excessive and overwhelming act. Definitively one of the highlights of the Punk! Kongress. more...