2005

3rd January: Jayne will be appearing as emcee at CBGB's on Friday January 14th at a night called Glitz Rock.

28th January: Jayne's live DVD "Man Enough To Be A Woman" is released on 31st January.

3rd February: Jayne's UK live dates from last year which were cancelled due to her father's illness have now been re-arranged. Dates are as follows:

• Friday 18th March - Punk Aid Festival, Hemsby Holiday Centre, Great Yarmouth (UK)

• Friday 25th March - The Underworld, Camden, London (UK)

• Sunday 27th March - Satan's Hollow, Manchester (UK)

• Monday 28th March - Rock Cafe 2000, Stourbridge (UK)

19th February: I've just been informed by Jayne that in May she will be making a two night guest appearance in Berlin, in "Gabba, Gabba Hey" - the Ramones musical. Jayne will be doing three songs including her newly recorded version of " I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend (Girlfriend)".

25th March: Jayne made a triumphant return to the UK with a show at The Underworld in Camden tonight.

27th March: Jayne's brief UK tour continued tonight at Satan's Hollow in Manchester.

28th March: Jayne's last date of her UK tour at Stourbridge.

31st March: Jayne will be returning to the UK in April for two shows:

• Saturday 23rd April - All Tomorrow's Parties, Camber Sands Holiday Centre, East Sussex. (UK) (DJing)

• Sunday 24th April- All Tomorrow's Parties, Camber Sands Holiday Centre, East Sussex. (UK) (Jayne County & The Electric Chairs)

• Monday 25th April - Filthy MacNasty's, London. (UK) (Spoken word and music)

3rd July: Jayne will be exhibiting some of her paintings at an exhibition curated by John Nikolai from July to September.

7th August: I am sorry to have to report that Jayne's friend and long term manager Warren Heighway died in his sleep on Tuesday 19th July at 1.10pm. Warren had been ill for some time. He will be greatly missed by those who had any dealings with him over the years.

6th September: Jayne will be playing live in the Czech Republic, Scandinavia and the UK in early October. Details as follows:

• Saturday 1st October - Punk Aid Festival, Panorama Rock Klub, Pod Doubravkou, 41501 Teplice. (Czech Republic)

• Wednesday 5th October - Henriksberg, Gothenburg, Sweden

• Thursday 6th October - Elm Street Club, Oslo, Norway

• Friday 7th October - Debaser(Gear Club), Stockholm, Sweden

• Saturday 8th October (Cancelled - To be rearranged in 2006) - Panora, S:t Gertrudsgatan 4, 211 25 Malmö, Sweden

• Tuesday 11th October - Filthy MacNasty's, London. (UK) (Spoken word and music) - Free admission

• Wednesday 12th October - The Underworld, Camden, London (UK)

• Date to be rearranged- Satan's Hollow, 101 Princess Street, Manchester, M1 6DD (UK)

28th September: An extra date has been added to the Swedish tour on 8th October. See below.

8th October: Tonights show at Malmo has been cancelled and will be rearranged in 2006.

2004

15th January: Jayne will be playing CBGB's on Feb. 21 along with Lisa Jackson and Girl Friday. Jayne's band will be The Jayne County Five. Trans band "All The Pretty Horses" will also be playing. The nite is called "Transmania!! All trans R and R bands!!! Every second Sat. of every month Jayne can also be found DJing at The Raven, on Ave. A. and 12th St. across from the Cock. The night is called "Femme Fatale" A night of Glam, Punk and 60*s Psychedelic Garage!!!!!!!

2nd February: Ed Mannix from Outmusic has informed me that Jayne is to be honoured as this year's Outmusic Heritage Award Honoree. This is their most prestigious award, "celebrating early, ongoing and far-reaching contributions to LGBT music and culture". The awards take place on Sunday afternoon, June 13, 2004 at the Knitting Factory in New York and will be hosted by Tom Robinson. The plan is to show a video presentation of Jayne's career followed by a performance by Jayne.

19th March: Jayne tells me she is going to be in the studio twice this month to record. She will be recording with her own band and also with The Shewolves. At the end of the month Jayne is relocating to Georgia to spend more time with her parents but will be still be visiting New York a lot as well as Los Angeles. Whilst in Georgia Jayne plans to put a band together with Sylvain Sylvain as he lives in Atlanta. In June there's possibly another gig at CBGB with Lisa Jackson and All The Pretty Horses.

18th April: Jayne tells me she will be headlining the Squeezebox 10 Year Reunion at Don Hills in New York with her band the JC5. The show takes place on May 21st. Boy George will also appear.

24th April: A new single from Jayne County meets the She Wolves featuring "California Uber Alles" and "Shrink and Shrivell" will be out in June. This release will be on vinyl only and will only be released in Germany initially on the Trash 2001 label. More info and hopefully details on how to order as I know them.

13th May: Jayne's birthday show previously scheduled for Don Hills on July 9th has unfortunately had to be cancelled.

15th May: Jayne will be appearing at the following European events in August and September: - NOW CANCELLED (See below)

• Thursday 26th August Rock Cafe 2000, Stourbridge (UK) - Cancelled

• Friday 27th AugustBristol Bierkeller, Bristol (UK) - Cancelled

• Sunday 29th AugustAnother Big Punk Day In Sunderland, Sunderland (UK) - Cancelled

• Monday 30th AugustThe Roadhouse, Manchester (UK) - Cancelled

• Wednesday 1st Sept.The Underworld, Camden, London (UK) - Cancelled

• Friday 3rd Sept.Punk Aid Festival, Prague (Czech Republic) - Cancelled

• Thursday 23rd Sept.Punk! Kongress Festival, Kassel (Germany) - Cancelled

****Jayne is dedicating her English gigs to Fahrenheit 9/11 film maker, Michael Moore****

27th June: One of Jayne's fans has informed me that a company called Weinerworld are issuing some of the Rockpalast TV concerts on DVD at present. Wayne County and The Electric Chairs appearred on this show in December 1978. If you'd like to see Wayne's show released on DVD please contact Weinerworld.

1st July: There are some photos of Jayne receiving her Outmusic Heritage award from Tom Robinson on J.D. Doyle's Queer Music Heritage site.

28th July: An extra date at Bristol has been added to Jayne's UK tour in August and September. See tour dates above. - NOW CANCELLED (See below)

5th August: The tour dates scheduled for August/September have had to be cancelled due to Jayne's father being in hospital. Jayne sends her apologies for the cancellation. It is planned to re-schedule all UK dates for hopefully March 2005.

7th December: Cherry Red records will release a Jayne DVD on January 24th 2005. It features footage from an appearance at Blackpool's Holidays In The Sun Festival. Tracks include: 'Night Time', 'Wonder Woman', 'Paranoia Paradise', 'Bad In Bed', 'Man Enough To Be A Woman' and 'Brainwashed'. It features twelve tracks in total.

19th December: Jayne plays the B.B. King Blues Club & Grill in New York on January 18th 2005 along with Karen Black and the She Wolves.

2003

9th January: Jayne will debut a tell-all one woman show at Joe's Pub, New York on February 12 & 13th. Admission is $15.00 Reservations can be made on: (212) 539-8778. Daniel Nardicio who is producing the show describes it in his press release like this:

"Which world famous rock star pays rent boys for special lewd and lacivious acts? What former popular straight punk stud got busted by Debbie Harry getting blown by a guy? Answers to questions like these and many more are answered in punk legend Jayne County's tell-all one woman show at Joe's Pub on February 12th and 13th at 9:30 pm. Backed by Fisherman's Xylophonic Orchestra, Ms County will talk about her days growing up transexual in the South, "wrecking" straights on the streets of Atlanta in her teens, her wild days as a showgirl with Romy Haag in Berlin, the early days of punk in New York and London in the 60's and 70's and her experiences at Stonewall- and hear those stories that she was banned from telling in her book- "Man Enough to be a Woman". School is about to begin and the headmistress is not amused!!"

5th February: More information regarding Jayne's one woman show - "Jayne County Tells All" at Joe's pub. She'll be backed by a full band and will be telling stories from her life interspersed with songs. From what I'm told the show is roughly chronological and opens with "Max's" with Jayne appearing with coke all over her nose and puking on someone. Songs featured also include "Tomorrow is Another Day", "When Queens Collide", "Nimrod was a Motherfucker" and "Fuck Off".

5th February: For anyone in New York and not attending Jayne's show (are you mad!!!) there is apparently a tribute to Jayne also taking place on February 12th: The following is from Daniel Nardicio: - "Daniel Nardicio and Tangle bring you: Hormone: A Tranny Tribute to Jayne County. Wednesday, Feb 12th at 11:00PM at The Marquee, 356 Bowery. Hosted by Sweetie Starring: The World Famous *BOB*, Mother Flawless Sabrina, Brandon Olson, Lisa Jackson And Penny Arcade. Also, The Hormone Go-Go girls and supercutie trade Dj Cory. Admission $3. Come honor the woman who fought to make it easier for us all, who lives to tell her story and who fucking ROCKS!"

14th April: The CBGB site lists Jayne as hosting an event there on April 19th.

4th May: Jayne and Lisa Jackson appearred at Fez in New York tonight.

19th May: Peter Crowley tells me that Jayne will be appearing at Otto's Shrunken Head, 14th Street, New York (between Avenues A & B) on Saturday June 7th. The Jayne County 5 will perform live at 10PM and then Jayne County Unplugged will take place at Midnight. Jayne will also be hostess and DJ at the same venue on most Saturdays this summer. Peter Crowley will be booking live music - of the sort you could have seen at Max's - to be presented at 10pm in the 'back room' (with 'unplugged' events after midnight), and Jayne will spin fabulous rock 'n' roll records - like she did at Max's - until the wee hours.

27th May: Don Hill's website are advertising a gig by Jayne on Friday 25th July. More details here.

27th August: Jayne will be performing a Dusty Springfield tribute on Saturday September 13th at High Life, 356 Bowery & E4th, New York.

19th September: Jayne's new album "So New York" is now available.

29th September: Peter Crowley is organizing a benefit for Joy Ryder who had brain surgery and can't work. Gig info as follows: Jumping for Joy - Sunday October 12th at CBGB, 315 Bowery at Bleecker St., NYC 212-982-4052. Bands: The Jayne County Five, Sylvain Sylvain (of the New York Dolls), The Star Spangles, The Waldos (featuring Walter Lure), Ruby & The Rednecks, Lisa Jackson, Phil Marcade and Wild Bill Thompson (of The Senders), Psychocharger, Sonic Uke The Reformers. Hosts will be Penny Arcade and Gene Cornish (of The Rascals). Showtime: 8pm Minimum donation: $10.00

27th October: Jayne plays Castaways in New York for Halloween.

27th October: J.D. Doyle has interviewed Jayne for his show on KPFT, 90.1FM, Houston. It airs every 4th Monday of the month at 9pm CST and Jayne's interview is scheduled for November 24th. Follow the "Outradio" link from Queer Music Heritage to listen on the web.

21st November: Jayne is being billed as DJing at "Return To New York" at The Great Eastern Hotel in London this Saturday 22nd November. Jayne has told me she is NOT appearing at this event and had in fact never confirmed her appearance.

2002

13th February: As previously announced on the messageboard and via the mailing list Jayne will DJ at the Mike Quashie tribute at Bowery Ballroom on Thursday February 28th. More details can be found at Max's Kansas City site.

14th February: If you're attending the February 28th event at the Bowery Ballroom get there early as Jayne will be DJing from 7pm.

22nd February: Warren Heighway informs me that The Johnny Thunders tribute CD "I Only Wrote This Song For You" is presently being prepared for reissue. Extra tracks by artists such as Marc Almond & The Strokes are rumoured. The track featuring Jayne "Help The Homeless" is possibly to be released as a single backed by a Jayne version of "Lookin For A Kiss". Proceeds from this would go to the charity Centrepoint.

22nd February: Warren is currently looking to re-mix and re-package further Jayne product. He would more than welcome offers of collaborations from established producers. If you're interested contact him via the "Mail Me" link on the site.

22nd February: Starting soon unreleased Jayne mixes will be made available to download from the site for a limited period of one month each. This will take the form of a track each month. Watch this space for further details or join the mailing list for updates and notification of new tracks being uploaded.

23rd February: A Jayne "Live At Squeezebox" CD will be available soon. This will probably be an internet only release. More details as I get them.

17th March: Apparently Jayne may be recording a cover version of "Paint It Black" with the band Church Of Betty. She has performed this with them previously. If I get details of a release I'll update. Jayne is also to appear at the release party for their new CD “Tripping With Wanda” on Wednesday April 3rd at The Bottom Line in New York.

17th March: Rupert Smith tells me that Jayne has a new evening look of black hair & black Cleopatra eye make-up. No pics to display of this yet I'm afraid.

17th March: More recording news: A new Jayne rock single is being planned featuring two tracks, one of which looks likely to be "Queenage Baby" the never recorded/released Mainman era song. More details as I get them.

22nd March: "Paint It Black" looks set to be recorded in April according to Chris at Church Of Betty's label Fang.

22nd March: A remastered version of "Night Time" will be included on the "Punk Aid" album which is scheduled for release in the U.K. on May 27th. The album will feature 38 tracks in all by artists such as Tom Robinson, Gold Blade, The Cardiacs, 999 and GBH. Remastering of the track will take place this weekend. Thanks to Tim at Punk Aid for these details.

24th March: Last night saw the broadcast on BBC Radio2 in the UK of part one of a documentary on punk in the USA. Part two is on next Saturday (30th) at 8pm to 9pm and covers the years 1970 to 1978. I'm not sure if Jayne will be included but give it a listen. The presenter is Craig Leon so if anyone out there fancies dropping the BBC a line re Jayne try the e-mail address: radio2.enquiries@bbc.co.uk . Help make sure that the BBC give Jayne the credit she's due.

24th March: As mentioned on the messageboard there is a lot of effort being made at present to get Jayne over to the UK to play and also to raise her profile. Anything people can do to raise Jayne's profile would help.

26th March: More news on the Church Of Betty CD release party on April 3rd at The Bottom Line in New York. There are two shows (7:30 & 10:30) and Jayne will perform "Paint It Black". Tickets are $15. See Church Of Betty site for further information.

5th April: The UK press seem to be recognising Jayne's talents at present. This month she is featured in an article about CBGB's in Q magazine, an article about the greatest rock excess stories in Bizarre magazine and she also got a mention in an article about Sting and the Police in Uncut magazine last month. Nice to see her getting some recognition.

17th April: "I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night" by Wayne County is featured on the new compilation CD "CBGB's & THE BIRTH OF U.S. PUNK" which has just been released in the UK.

17th April: Next months exclusive download will be "Brainwashed" re-mixed by Brother Johny Skullknuckles of Manchester punk supergroup Goldblade.

21st April: Jayne's new live CD "Wash Me In The Blood (Of Rock 'N' Roll)" is now available. This was recorded at Squeezebox on Jayne's birthday (14th July) in 2000.

21st April: Chris from Church Of Betty/Fang Records informs me that Jayne has recorded "Paint It Black" with him. It features sitar, tabla and a big rock sound. The plan is to do 3 different dance mixes too and release all 4 versions on a disc later this year. More news as I get it.

25th April: Q magazine have included "Rock 'N' Roll Cleopatra" in their Punk Special top 100 punk albums.

6th May: As you may have read on the messageboard Jayne will be honored with the Living Legend Award at the 2002 Glammy Awards in NYC at El Flamingo on June 2nd. Her award will be presented to her by Debbie Harry and Miss Guy. The Glammys honour the best artists and entertainers in NYC.

6th June: Jayne will be out and about at various events over the next few weeks. Jayne will host a semi regular event at CBGBs called homocorps, on Saturday June 8th. It's queer punk oriented acts, including The Velvet Mafia, Verona Boy, Avenue D ,Morplay, and Johnny Mcgovern is the gay pimp. On Wednesday, June 12th Jayne will host a benefit for the Joey Ramone Lymphoma fund at Don Hill's in Manhattan. It's a party to celebrate the release of the new Ramones tribute CD issued by Radical Records in Manhattan. Bearing in mind the sad announcement today of the death of Dee Dee Ramone I'd check details on this over the next few days if you're thinking of attending. Jayne will also be involved in a monthly 'Fun with Dick and Jayne' night at Manitoba's in downtown Manhattan, owned by Dick Manitoba himself. Check the venue for details.

9th June: The Glammy Awards took place on 2nd June and Jayne received her Living Legend Award. Janet Planet has kindly supplied photos of the event.

25th August: Jayne is apparently going to be teaming up with Lisa Jackson for a two girl show which they have already test ran with great results.

19th September: There have been rumours of UK shows in November circulating recently. These shows are not happening and were never actually confirmed. Jayne had not agreed to these shows so it's certainly not a case of Jayne letting anyone down. As for the venues concerned I believe they were acting in good faith too so hopefully nobody will lay the blame at their door either. The best explanation I can give is that there was a breakdown in communications. I'm told Jayne does plan to visit the UK in the not too distant future but as I've said before don't believe any rumours until you've had confirmation of shows via this site.

23rd September: Jayne has been doing shows around NYC with another artist from Georgia called Lisa Jackson. They have been performing as G.O.T. (Girls On Top). The shows are apparently very trashy and very funny, with Lisa as the "straight" one and Jayne providing the comedy. Jayne's also been DJing and performing at Manitoba's, the bar owned by Dick Manitoba.

23rd September: Jayne has been working again with Eliot Michaels from the Backstreet Boys/Electric Chairs. They plan to go into the studio to record some really filthy rock & roll including a recording of "Queenage Baby". A show is also being planned as Jayne County & the Electric Chairs feat Eliot Michaels, at Don Hills.

23rd September: A documentary by Dean Lance largely about Jayne's life, "Down There: Aesthetics and Sexuality on the Lower East Side", has been shown a few times on cable stations in Manhattan recently (primarily Manhattan Neighborhood Network) and is apparently due for transmission on PBS. The documentary is a re-edit of a larger piece which Dean is working on entitled "Stick It In Me! (You Are Entering Jayne County)".

29th September: The show planned at Don Hills in New York with Eliot Michaels will take place on November 22nd.

29th September: Jayne tells me she will be playing in the U.K. in March 2003. No dates as yet but watch this space.

2001

January 25th: The single "Man! I Feel Like A Woman"is now due in about two weeks in the United States. It will include the following versions:- "Radio,Radio Edit", "Estrogen Mix", "Testosterone Mix" & "Instrumental (Jayne Trance)".

January 26th: U.S. fans should look out for the movie "Born To Lose; The Last Rock & Roll Movie" in April. Jayne performs some of "Rock & Roll Resurrection" and is interviewed in several segments. There's also footage from a Wayne County And The Backstreet Boys show in London from 1976.

February 28th: Jayne has been interviewed for SPIN magazine's 25th anniversary of punk issue (April issue). She will tomorrow be interviewed for VH1 for their April punk special which is a tie-in with SPIN magazine also.

March 8th: Jayne's music ("Fuck Off") was used as part of the Queer Radio entry in last Saturday’s Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade. Thanks to presenter John Frame for this information.

March 15th: VH1 are to have a new series entitled "The History Of Sex And Music". One show is about "gender benders" and will feature Jayne.

March 28th: VH1's punk celebration show will be transmitted in the U.S. on Thursday April 19th. Jayne should feature in this!

May 2nd: Jayne' appearance on the VH1 punk special consisted of a brief interview and footage of her performing "Toilet Love" (thanks Steve - "ratandroll"). Coming soon on VH1 is "Below the Waist: Men, Women & Music" which should also feature Jayne. More details as I get them.

May 2nd: John T. Ryan's film 'Freaks Glam Gods And Rock Stars' featuring Jayne is showing weekends at the Den Of Cin at the Two Boots Pioneer cinema in Manhattan. The New York Times, Daily News, New York Post, Newsday and HX magazine have all mentioned Jayne's appearances in the film.

May 9th: Jayne's single has entered the Billboard Maxi-Dance singles chart at number 18.

May 9th: Jayne will DJ and be a guest vocalist with the Toilet Boys at Don Hills' SqueezeBox (Address: 511 Greenwich Street. Phone: 212-219-2850) Anniversary show on Friday May 18th. Expect plenty of NY rock scene superstars popping up all night long.

July 7th: This site has also been paid the honour of being "Site Of The Week" on Johnny Dynell's Queenmother.tv site at: http://www.queenmother.tv/ . Check it out!

July 8th: VH-1's "Below The Waist; History Of Sex And Music" is due to air in the U.S. during the first week of August. A U.K. showing should also be in the pipeline.

July 17th: Jayne hosted a benefit night for Cyrinda Foxe on the 11th July at CBGB's. Peter Crowley informs me that Jayne stole the show with her rendition of the Rolling Stones "Paint It Black" which she performed with the band Church Of Betty. The benefit was to raise money for Cyrinda who has been diagnosed with brain cancer. Co-host at the event was Penny Arcade.

August 26th: Jayne will appear at Wigstock in New York on Sunday September 2nd. Check out their website at: http://www.wigstock.nu/ .

August 29th: Jayne is featured on page 66 of the September issue of U.K. magazine Bizarre (out now). For their 50th issue they've selected 50 "freaks, rockers, performers, exhibitionists and 24-carat counter-culture icons" to do brief questionaires. Nice to see Jayne included in this along with a picture.

September 19th: In the latest issue U.K. magazine Mojo includes "Fuck Off" at No.54 in their all time Top 100 Punk Records. There's a little write up and a pic of the German "Fuck Off" sleeve.