It’s no surprise that DIY punk supergroup YAKKIE’s debut offering, ‘Kill The Cop Inside Your Head’, is a political, feminist melting pot of anti-capitalist rage. The band is fronted by Dream Nails founder Janey Starling, who returns to the stage after stepping away from making music to focus on full-time anti-prisons activism. Starling is joined by drummer Maeve Westall of Jasmine.4T and Itoldyouiwouldeatyou, guitarist Robin Gatt, previously found fronting Personal Best and on bass for Petrol Girls, and bassist Laura Ankles of Colour Me Wednesday.
The concept of the “cop inside your head” originates from Brazilian theatre director Augusto Boal, whose framework of the “theatre of the oppressed” puts the focus on active observation of theatre over passive spectating. Boal suggested that people do not act upon their political beliefs because they have internalised external oppressions. The cop in your head is preventing you from taking action, and YAKKIE are telling us to destroy the…
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