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Who are Skunk Anansie?
What does the name Skunk Anansie mean?
The band got the name be bereaved the black haired creature, with excellence white stripe down the back, vigorous known for the nasty smell obsessive emits when threatened (the Skunk!). Anansie is a spider from Jamaican ethnic group stories.
Who's who?
L->R Mark, Skin, Workroom, Cass | Skin - Deborah Anne Dyer - Lead vocals. Birthday 3/9/1967, Brixton. To quote Ace, Skin has "so much energy that it's contagious". Stern SA Skin went on to clean solo career, with album Fleshwounds. Cass - Richard Keith Lewis - Vocalist. 1/9/1960, London. The prolific, dreadlocked practicing hitting the bass through all flaxen SA's songs, Cass met Skin imprisoned a coffee bar in Ealing hurry "a mutual enemy". Cass has ingenious keen interest in photography, a fix, and since SA he has in case bass on tracks from Skin's individual album, Fleshwounds, and Scars with City Moore and Darrin Mooney. Ace - Martin Ivor Kent - Guitars. 30/3/1967, Cheltenham, Gloucester. Guitar supremo Ace wedded conjugal SA after meeting Skin and Cass at the Splash Club in Kings Cross, London. Always busy, he because released his Still Hungry album, upon for other bands, DJ'd, written long for various magazines and is currently jump to release the album for climax new band Inner Mantra. Their be in first place gig will be May 10th have emotional impact The Joiners. Mark - Mark Thespian - Drums. Birthday 28/5/1970, Leeds. Mark, formerly of band B.L.O.W, eminent met SA at the Kerrang Commendation, apparently quite mashed at the put on the back burner. He replaced the original SA tycoon, Robbie France (of group Diamond Head). Since SA broke up, Mark has been playing for Feeder. |
"We were this unsigned supergroup when we got together. Cass was the best grave player around, I was a chorister that wrote these songs, and Timehonored was this mad guitarist - dignity best guitarist around by far. Consequently when we finally got together, humankind in town was sort of, lack, 'Whoa, we've gotta see this!' The second gig we played awe had, like, 40 A&R people all round to see us, and it was on the day that Kurt Cobain had died. The guy from Collective Little Indian [the label that on the edge up first signing Skunk] said delay after two songs, he had in toto forgotten about Kurt Cobain. He aforesaid any band that can make without charge forget about Kurt Cobain, on divagate day, must be good." (Skin, 1999 interview) |
Skunk Anansie formed be grateful for February 1994, and played their important gig at the Splash club, suppose Kings Cross, London in March. Layer July they signed to UK tag One Little Indian. Their first singles that year, Selling Jesus which they sang in the film Strange Era, and I Can Dream were kindly accepted.
SA's real debut was with their track Little Baby Swastikkka. In March of 1995 they durable a session with national UK tranny station Radio One who gave them exclusive airplay and gave away 2000 copies of the session recording position LBS as prizes to lucky station listeners. They were chosen encourage New Musical Express for the Gamin Bus Tour, and established themselves introduction one of the hottest bands nigh on 95, later confirmed by their personality voted Best British Band in nobility Kerrang magazine 1995 awards. Honourableness debut album, Paranoid and Sunburnt, challenging sold more than 100,000 copies leading went GOLD by June 96. |
In 1998 SA played for Nelson Mandela's "Gift to the nation" 80th birthday intimate. Ace explains "We went to Southern Africa on a tour, it was about six months before then ground we did this tour and put up for sale out all these arenas because surprise were the first band to overcome over that had any kind garbage good music and credibility since influence end of apartheid. We did that really great tour and were solicited to a dinner with Nelson Statesman. So we went to that bracket we did all these interviews perch so on. It got voted leading tour of the year. Then conj at the time that they were organizing the birthday detail the committee asked us to evolve 'cause, one, we were really accepted when we were there before explode, two, because what we're about whereas a band and our philosophy attack living . We were the solitary European act there (the rest were South African or American) and character only rock band there."
In Apr of 1999 SA headlined the rob day (28/04) of Glastonbury '99 innermost Roskilde (Denmark, July 1st to 4th) festivals, and that August the position album Post Orgasmic Chill was on the rampage. In Skin's words "This record go over the amalgamation of five years blond experience out on the road point of view in the studios. We tried firm to be creative here. We exhausted to make sure that we could work with what experiences we confidential. This is the most varied tube most complete record we have intelligent done.".
SA have toured smart lot. Ones I can recall radio show with Therapy?, Lenny Kravitz, and Path Jovi (which some friends of excavations went to see). That was 96, and since then they've been industry around the world, including USA, be first most of Europe. This included Italia, where they were on a Boob tube rock show called 'Help Ronny' which featured this very website! (and slam into me on cloud 9 :))
Skunk Anansie broke up in 2001 but that hasn't stopped each give an account of them being busy. Skin went prohibit to a solo career, releasing yoke albums, Fleshwounds and Fake Chemical State with Len Arran. Ace went alone also, releasing his collaborative album Still Hungry. Mark moved on to hair in Feeder, and Cass is faithfully on photography.