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===Live performances===
Skinny Puppy was noted for theatrical and controversial live performances which blend performance art with music.<ref name=Emusician>{{Cite web|url=http://www.emusician.com/gear/1332/skinny-puppy/37723|title=Skinny Puppy gets respect |access-date=24 May 2007 |publisher=[[Electronic Musician]] |date=1 April 2017 |last1=Kleinfeld |first1=Justin |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170323143336/http://www.emusician.com/gear/1332/skinny-puppy/37723 |archive-date=23 March 2017 }}</ref> Ogre has been critical of the band's early performances, telling ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]'' magazine in 1992 that "I would do things on stage that would blow – they just wouldn't work".<ref name="DelusionSpin">{{cite magazine|last1=Bonner|first1=Staci|title=Use Your Delusion: Skinny Puppy-When there's Something Strange in Your Neighborhood, Who You gonna Call?|magazine=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]|date=June 1992|volume=8|issue=3|page=14|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kYhJL9bSu1YC&q=skinny+puppy&pg=PT15|access-date=9 June 2016}}</ref> Live performances involved periods of [[musical improvisation]], film projections, and elaborate stage props and machines, many of which are designed and built by Ogre himself.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Alexander|first1=Chris|title=Report: Skinny Puppy, Live in Toronto|url=http://www.fangoria.com/new/report-skinny-puppy-live-in-toronto/|website=[[Fangoria]]|access-date=9 June 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160520014300/http://www.fangoria.com/new/report-skinny-puppy-live-in-toronto/|archive-date=20 May 2016}}</ref> While discussing Skinny Puppy's performances, Ogre remarked that "our shows combine images with theater. It works better than just coming out and doing a horror magic routine".<ref name="DelusionSpin" /> He explained to the ''[[Vancouver Sun]]'' in 1988 that he wanted his act to have "that grey area where anything could happen – where I can cut my head off by accident and people will go, 'wow, that's great'".<ref name="Mackie">{{cite journal |last1=Mackie |first1=John |title=Welcome to the Weird World of One Rock's Most Bizzare Bands |journal=[[The Vancouver Sun]] |date=1 October 1988 |page=H13}}</ref>

[[File:Skinny Puppy @ The Vic, Chicago 2-21-2014(2).jpg|thumb|left|alt=A photo of Nivek Ogre and cEvin Key performing live in 2014.|Nivek Ogre and cEvin Key performing live in 2014]]

On-stage theatrics included Ogre being suspended from racks and cables,<ref name="24hours" /> play with a [[hangman's noose]],<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sullivan |first1=Jim |title=The Thrashing and Gnashing Staturation Point |journal=[[Boston Globe]] |date=26 May 1987 |page=39}}</ref> use of an [[angle grinder]],<ref name="Chillingworth">{{cite web |last1=Chillingworth |first1=Alec |title=How Skinny Puppy Changed Metal (November 9, 2016) |url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/how-skinny-puppy-changed-metal |website=[[Metal Hammer]] |date=9 November 2016 |access-date=17 March 2019 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180708074537/https://www.loudersound.com/features/how-skinny-puppy-changed-metal |archive-date=8 July 2018 }}</ref> and [[mock execution]]s of Ogre and [[George W. Bush]].<ref name="The BG News">{{cite web|url=http://media.www.bgnews.com/media/storage/paper883/news/2004/12/12/LocalNews/Conservatives.Ban.College.Radio.Stations-1293680.shtml|title=Conservatives Ban College Radio Stations|publisher=The BG News|date=12 December 2004|author=Angela Gorter|access-date=14 May 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928025322/http://media.www.bgnews.com/media/storage/paper883/news/2004/12/12/LocalNews/Conservatives.Ban.College.Radio.Stations-1293680.shtml|archive-date=28 September 2007}}</ref> Following the [[2004 United States presidential election]], promoters began to ask the band to refrain from using fake blood during their performances. This reaction was prompted by the performance of a mock execution on stage, during which Ogre was "decapitated" by actors dressed as then U.S. President [[George W. Bush]] and Vice President [[Dick Cheney]].<ref name="westword" /> The band was also asked by [[Samsung]] (who had been asked by Ogre to sponsor the band with a large [[flat screen]]) to "not insult the president" while performing on stage.<ref name="westword" /> In a 1987 television interview with [[Kim Clarke Champniss]], Key explained that while Ogre follows a "rough guideline" during a live performance, a majority of his on-stage theatrics are conceived spontaneously. Key told Champniss that Ogre's demeanor on stage could "range from just a sort of laid back kind of lurking to a rampant psycho".<ref>{{cite episode |title=cEvin Key Interview |series=Rockflash |network=[[Muchmusic]] |year=1987 |last=Champniss |first=Kim Clarke}}</ref> Ogre once remarked that touring was, for himself, like  "dating [[hydrogen peroxide]]", referencing the numerous injuries which he would acquire over the course of touring.<ref name="Bside" />

Though Ogre and Key were the only constant members of Skinny Puppy's live act since Goettel's death, the pair hired various other musicians to assist them onstage. They included drummer [[Justin Bennett]],<ref>{{cite web|last1=Goldberg|first1=Corey|title=Interview: Justin Bennett|url=http://www.litany.net/interviews/jb.sp|website=Litany|publisher=litany.net|access-date=12 June 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304023317/http://www.litany.net/interviews/jb.sp|archive-date=4 March 2016}}</ref> guitarist [[William Morrison (director)|William Morrison]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Our Brief Eternity by William Morrison|url=http://www.brooklynfilmfestival.org/films/detail.asp?fid=686|website=[[Brooklyn Film Festival]]|access-date=12 June 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160616215453/http://www.brooklynfilmfestival.org/films/detail.asp?fid=686|archive-date=16 June 2016}}</ref> and guitarist [[Matthew Setzer]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Goldberg|first1=Corey|title=Skinny Puppy/Youth Code US Tour|url=http://www.litany.net/posts/2015/08/12/skinny-puppy--youth-code-us-tour|website=Litany|publisher=litany.net|access-date=12 June 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160807161942/http://www.litany.net/posts/2015/08/12/skinny-puppy--youth-code-us-tour|archive-date=7 August 2016}}</ref>