{"id":909,"date":"2014-02-20T11:11:33","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T11:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/?p=909"},"modified":"2014-02-20T11:25:32","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T11:25:32","slug":"skinny-puppy-valentines-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/?p=909","title":{"rendered":"Skinny Puppy Valentine’s 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Webster Hall
\nFeb 14, 2014\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

by Doktor John <\/p>\n

This was a very special Valentine\u2019s Day for lovers of industrial music. The object of their love, Skinny Puppy made this a most fulfilling holiday to a sell-out crowd of their fanatical metropolitan area followers.<\/p>\n

The audience was surprised with a somewhat earlier-than-expected, 8:50 PM start. The eerie and somewhat hard-to-recognize strains of the rhythm-less \u201cChloralone\u201d accompanied the advent of light on the stage and the entrance of frontman Nivek Ogre in the first of several horrific costumes he would don for the show. The music transitioned seamlessly into \u201cillisit\u201d in which SP accuses this of being \u201cthe criminal age.\u201d<\/p>\n

The backdrop and the performers were flooded with a crazy-quilt of broken, animated lighting that was disorienting and hallucinatory. A model of a slender canine appeared in silhouette on the stage and would later serve briefly as stage prop.
\n \u201cVillage\u201d from the \u201cHandover\u201d album and the classic \u201cThe Choke\u201d from the 1985 \u201cBites\u201d album followed, then back to \u201cWeapon\u201d for \u201cplasicage\u201d and \u201cwornin\u2019.\u201d A screen on stage ran LED figures displaying the rapidly-growing national debt at $55 trillion and mounting while images of electronic circuit boards, disasters, chaos and op-art flashed behind the stage performers.<\/p>\n

\u201cDeep Down Trauma Hounds\u201d from the 1987 \u201cCleanse Fold and Manipulate\u201d album provided a welcomed return to the classics as did their all-time favorite, \u201cWarlock,\u201d the uniquely cadenced, compelling and mesmerizing hit from the \u201cRabies\u201d album.
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The show continued in the same vein, alternating cuts from the current \u201cWeapon\u201d with such classics as \u201cHexonxonx,\u201d \u201cPasturn\u201d from \u201cMythmaker\u201d and \u201cFirst Aid.\u201d
\n The stage performance included Ogre\u2019s simulated cutting himself with a large dagger. An audience member invaded the stage and was quickly subdued and ejected. Ogre donned a hideous, expressionless mask and hood, vaguely resembling a nightmarish version of Death from Ingemar Bergman\u2019s movie, \u201cThe Seventh Seal.\u201d After performing \u201cSolvent,\u201d he bid \u201cThanks to New York!\u201d and disappeared briefly. Upon return the encores included classics \u201cFar Too Frail,\u201d \u201cGlass Houses\u201d and the wonderful \u201cSmothered Hope\u201d before concluding with \u201cOverdose\u201d from \u201cWeapon.\u201d
\n\"skinny<\/a>Webster Hall <\/p>\n

Throughout the concert, no effort was spared as Ogre donned, now a furry costume, then a hazmat suit, another terrifying headdress or two and poured himself and drank a tall glass of some repulsive, phosphorescent blue-green liquid. <\/p>\n

As always, Skinny Puppy was magnanimous in the generous and unbounded efforts to please, entertain and shock their zealous and loving fans, for whom this will always be a Valentine\u2019s Day to remember.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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