{"id":10100,"date":"2019-02-26T20:44:47","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T20:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/?p=10100"},"modified":"2019-04-03T22:54:14","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T21:54:14","slug":"alone-in-a-darkened-room-with-bauhaus-an-essay-by-al-puppy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/alone-in-a-darkened-room-with-bauhaus-an-essay-by-al-puppy\/","title":{"rendered":"Alone In A Darkened Room With Bauhaus: An essay by Al Puppy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

TEXT ORIGINALLY WRITTEN BY AL PUPPY IN 2005 \u2013 TIDIED UP AND IMAGES ADDED BY MICKEY PENGUIN IN 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I do get bored, I get bored<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the flat field I get bored<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I do get bored In the flat field<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I get bored easily. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although I can\u2019t get down to London to give a speech to twenty or so MPs in Westminster (for Friends of the Earth on Thursday 23 June) about Tesco I should really be sitting here writing up one to send down any way. Got it all honed down to a bunch of soundbites, people seem surprised at how well I can articulate on Tesco for the media (even got on Radio 4 Today doing it) but being saying the same things for tv and radio and press many many times for a year now. Like a tape loop, put me in front of a microphone \/ camera and out it comes, even when I am knackered after spending nine hours at a planning meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sure, it needs to be done and no doubt I could have done it\u2026 but I get bored saying the same thing over and over again. So here is something else, which is also getting a bit boring by now that although Kill Your Pet Puppy was part of the \u2018anarcho-punk\u2019 scene 79 \/ 84 we featured as many \u2018goth\u2019 groups like Bauhaus and Southern Death Cult as anarcho ones\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, I have spent the past couple of hours listening to lots of Bauhaus and typing up the following from KYPP 3. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not the full interview, just highlights. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please note the quote which says the only affinity they felt was with \u2018the spirit of punk\u2019<\/em>\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kill Your Pet Puppy 3 \u2013 Summer 1980 \u2013 Still only 25p.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cover a drawing by Brett Puppy of Mohican haired punk couple kissing. \u2018She\u2019 wears armband which reads \u2018 Obedience is Slavery\u2019. \u2018He\u2019 has tattoo which reads \u2018Beyond the Law\u2019 and T-shirt \u2018Conformity is Death\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We had a bit of an editorial discussion on this cover, which resulted in \u2018female\u2019 punk being made more masculine and \u2018male\u2019 punk being made more feminine. She got a pair of DMs and he got a bit of makeup but jaw lines reveal gender. The couple are sitting on the ground in darkness, behind them is a cityscape of black tower blocks and behind that a setting \/ rising sun. Above them is Ms. Puppy clutching a pair of scissors dripping blood\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On one of the tower blocks is written Bauhaus, Honey Bane,\nChaos, Cuddly Toys\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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