Big Fluffy Death Metal Puppy

     

 Settling in, my boombox blaring out the open window of my dorm room across the lawns of Newnham College, it's hard to deny the indelible draw of Cannibal Corpse's 2004 album, The Wretched Spawn.  I can only hope that my downstairs neighbor shares the same appreciation for guitar work as I do, because next up is Arch Enemy's Dead Inside, and since I want nothing more than to spend an afternoon thinking about puppies, it's imperative to get my groove on.

       In this exam term, so many of us are drawing back to the beginnings of our uni careers, drawing connections across what we've studied from first year on, remembering history and linking ideas, thoughts and events together.  So it's no wonder that I'm seeing those connections in all aspects of my life---and there is perhaps no better example of cause/result historical analysis than the case of Death Metal and Puppies.  As we all well know, it was just a mere 7 years after the groundbreaking album, Welcome To Tell (1981) by Venom that the first "puppy" (then known as "small useless dogs") was spotted meandering through the streets of Newcastle (also the birthplace of Death metal).  Within five years, by about 1986, these "small useless dogs" were popping up in cities throughout the world.  Miniature versions of German Shepherds, Chihuahua's, mutts, sprouting up and capturing the hearts and minds of people across the world.          Further scientific study (conducted as all GOOD scientific study is, here at Cambridge) revealed that there was something inherent in the sounds produced by bands such as Morbid Anal Fog and Napalm Death, that caused dogs to discover their inner children, and regress to a state of being never before seen.  Families across the world experienced both the heart wrenching rhythms of Gorgoroth, and the heartrending presences of adorable slowly growing "puppies" in their homes, and as members of their families.

       Actually, that's all a load of shit.  But a socialist/feminist/hilarious Cambridge student known as Chris Page has a debut Stand-Up hour this coming Monday at Corpus Playroom.  With almost 100 gigs in Cambridge, Norwich, Cardiff, London, and Edinbrugh (including fringe) under his belt, this show is long awaited and promises to be good fun.  Tickets are 5 quid each (buy ahead of time here: http://www.corpusplayroom.com/whats-on/comedy/big-fluffy-death-metal-puppy.aspx) and the show is appropriately named, "Big Fluffy Death Metal Puppy."

Also: It has this cool poster (seen in part above), which in my guesstimation is absolutely enough reason to go.