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What have been the highlights of your time in Skinny Puppy?

Ogre: For me, it has to be the theatrical side of it, and being able to personify things that were close to my heart. One little bit we did once was about cows being koshered and we were trying to take all those characters and feelings of pain and convey that pain to the audience. So we had this cow being koshered looping over and over again and I come out with a Big Mac, and I’d pull it out, massage it. Then I’d take it right over the audience and bit into it, and it had these blood bags tied up with elastic bands, really really tight inside it, so when I bit into it they exploded everywhere. It was really bad, the blood would just explode down the back of my throat and I was f***ing puking really badly, which is why I could never suck cock.

Who’s your favourite band who name-check you on a regular basis?

Ogre: I don’t have any favourites of current music at all. I really don’t like where industrial music is going – it has become so formulaic in a lot of ways. It’s becoming the new metal. Like, what industrial was, to what it is now: it’s becoming a place where you have to have all the guitars and you have to have all those things, but you have to have some electronics and a certain production technique to make it sound modern and more interesting.

Care to name anyone?

Ogre: Ministry and Nine Inch Nails are totally doing that; it’s cock rock. NIN are totally cock rock. They get the girls down on the floor at the end of the show and make them eat Froot Loops out of a bowl and say, “Wey-hey, that’s cool because we can do that!” I think the biggest thing about industrial music was it trying to break all those stereotypes and it succeeded but has ultimately failed again in a way. It’s just a name attached to cock rock and f***ing hate cock rock.

I’m totally into abusing myself and making myself eat Froot Loops out of a bowl on the floor in front of people, but to make someone else who you have power over and they’re just looking up to you … it’s bulls***! It’s just a sign of weakness to me; a sign of a really small ego who needs to do that to people to make their ego bigger. So, there you go.

1996

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