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...
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