King Kongs

The King Kongs

body of a man, mind of a teenager, soul of an animal

The King Kongs were born back in 2004 in north-west of Russia, in St.Petersburg exactly, and just like their forerunners from north-west of U.S.A. did forty years ago, the King Kongs started playing raw and loud garage punk with barefaced and forceful killer sound full of fuzz buzz and sax howls. And it didn't take long for their first Dirty Lives demo to resound throughout the whole country! For their live performances the band played some oldies but goldies like Louie Louie, Psycho, Have Love Will Travel and even more obscure covers like Leave Me Alone and Doomsday along with their original diamonds about drivin'-me-crazy babies and other teenage troubles.



With the course of time, more and more psych vibes from St.Pete's fogs and low rainy skies were penetrating Kongs' sound. But on the other hand the close neighborhood of the Neva River and Baltic Sea gave a strong influence for rushing instrumentals which are none other than surf! This fancy mix of styles was recorded once in 2006 on the King Kongs live gig and was released in the year 2008 at Solnze Records titled The King Kongs – Live!.



Starting from year 2007, more and more instrumental compositions have attracted admirers to the Kongs' shows. That year was marked with the release of the new demo called Surf Tapes (**** on reverbcentral).



Further progress of The King Kongs happened by a pure accident: the new Kongs' rehearsal room had only one microphone, so the guys decided to sacrifice their rebel yells to sax! That has led to the dramatical transformation of the band's sound to the instrumental wave.



Nowadays, the King Kongs have both feet in surf music. The band plays some old school surf and traditional twang things of their original composition and covers of pillars of the genre like The Ventures, Dick Dale, Davie Allan and The Arrows, Bel-Airs and so on.



In 2009 new 8 songs were released on CD Surfin' Circus (**** again). This short longplay was supported with several tours in neighboring Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.



In total: if you dig surf, beat, twang, trash, garage punk, exotique, psych, all this vibes from 6Ts, King Kongs will give it to you. If you want just drink few glasses of something in bar, where King Kongs are playing, better put your dancin' shoes on. If you're looking for cool party, check out Kongs schedule!



Discography:

2008 - Live!



2009 - Surfin' Circus!



King Kongs, live @ Kronstadt 2007