Video: The King Khan & BBQ Show, ‘Illuminations’

Kevin Bronson on August 27th, 2015

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The latest album from the King Khan & BBQ Show begs that eternal (KISS) question — would they be any good without the costumes? — but there no such quandary when it comes to their new video for the song “Illuminations.” The puppets (Stuart Simpson and Nick Kocsis are credited) steal the show, during which nobody suffered third-degree burns. The song is from the album “Bad News Boys,” which came out in March, but this month King Khan, born Arish Ahmad Khan, announced he has moved on to weightier things. He has scored the soundtrack for a feature-length documentary “The Invaders,” which tells the story of a group of Memphis activists and intellectuals during the Black Power movement of the late 1960s. “When I found out that John B. Smith, the founding member and leader of the Invaders, asked the director of the film, Prichard Smith, for me to do the soundtrack, I was floored,” Khan says. “Here is a man whose militant black power group impressed [Martin Luther King Jr.] so much that he had personal meetings with him about how to get the militant civil rights groups into the poor people’s campaign.” One of the songs, “Hurtin’ Class,” which features Ian Svenonius (of Chain & the Gang), is the first release on Khan’s his own record label Khannibalism, which will be the future home of the artist’s releases.

||| Watch: The video for “Illuminations”