The Spunkflakes were birthed on a mattress whilst getting stoned and watching the first Gulf War unfold on our TVs back in 1989. The name was only intended as a working title, but like the flakes themselves, it stuck. Their original show was performed at venues like the The Royal Vauxhall, Heaven and Smashing, and was a reaction to the depressingly unoriginal parade of sequins and tears always on stage back then. The Spunkflakes stitch together snippets of popular culture to craft their own mayhem-filled tales, with an emphasis on menace and mess. Moving from clubland to the live art scene and venues such as the ICA, Almeida and Schmaltzwald, Berlin, they barely conceal the relentless picking of much-loved scabs, savouring again and again the bitter aftertaste.