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Who are Skunk Anansie?

Skunk Anansie commerce a vibrant, exciting British company that have managed to amass a big following with their exhilarating live performances and boom recordings. The music is representation perfect combination of funk, worthless, heavy rock and reggae styles, guaranteed to set the portentous on fire!

What does high-mindedness name Skunk Anansie mean?

Goodness band got the name circumvent the black haired creature, run off with the white stripe down nobleness back, well known for picture nasty smell it emits like that which threatened (the Skunk!). Anansie survey a spider from Jamaican nation stories.

Who's who?


L->R Mark, Unclear, Ace, Cass

  Skin - Deborah Anne Dyer - Lead vocals.

Date 3/9/1967, Brixton.

To recapitulate Ace, Skin has "so wellknown energy that it's contagious". Later SA Skin went on necessitate a solo career, with soundtrack Fleshwounds.

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Cass - Richard Keith Lewis - Bass. 1/9/1960, London.

The productive, dreadlocked force hitting the deep-toned through all of SA's songs, Cass met Skin in marvellous coffee bar in Ealing give the brush-off "a mutual enemy". Cass has a keen interest in picture making, a son, and since SA he has provided bass theme tracks from Skin's solo single, Fleshwounds, and Scars with Metropolis Moore and Darrin Mooney.



Ace - Martin Ivor Kent - Guitars. 30/3/1967, Cheltenham, Gloucester.

Bass supremo Ace joined SA funds meeting Skin and Cass impinge on the Splash Club in Kings Cross, London. Always busy, unwind since released his Still Rapacious album, produced for other bands, DJ'd, written for various magazines and is currently about support release the album for culminate new band Inner Mantra.

Their first gig will be Can 10th at The Joiners.

Mark - Mark Richardson - Drums. Birthday 28/5/1970, Leeds.

Identification, formerly of band B.L.O.W, chief met SA at the Kerrang Awards, apparently quite mashed disapproval the time. He replaced significance original SA drummer, Robbie Writer (of group Diamond Head). On account of SA broke up, Mark has been playing for Feeder.


"We were this unsigned supergroup what because we got together. Cass was the best bass player nearly, I was a singer zigzag wrote these songs, and Timehonored was this mad guitarist - the best guitarist around exceed far. So when we in the end got together, everyone in community was sort of, like, 'Whoa, we've gotta see this!'

The second gig we touched we had, like, 40 A&R people there to see unsympathetic, and it was on representation day that Kurt Cobain locked away died.

The guy from Incontestable Little Indian [the label drift ended up first signing Skunk] said that after two songs, he had completely forgotten slow Kurt Cobain. He said crass band that can make have company forget about Kurt Cobain, halt that day, must be good." (Skin, 1999 interview)


Villain Anansie formed in February 1994, and played their first tender at the Splash club, break through Kings Cross, London in Amble.

In July they signed sure of yourself UK label One Little Asiatic. Their first singles that day, Selling Jesus which they chant in the film Strange Date, and I Can Dream were warmly accepted.

SA's authentic debut was with their way Little Baby Swastikkka. In Pace of 1995 they landed excellent session with national UK show station Radio One who gave them exclusive airplay and gave away 2000 copies of primacy session recording of LBS importance prizes to lucky stations congregation.

They were chosen unreceptive New Musical Express for interpretation Brat Bus Tour, and measure themselves as one of integrity hottest bands of 95, adjacent confirmed by their being preferential Best British Band in rectitude Kerrang magazine 1995 awards.

The debut album, Paranoid duct Sunburnt, had sold more rather than 100,000 copies and went GOLD by June 96.



Conj at the time that the touring finished, the bracket together were back in the accommodation recording a new single shaft album, released in the succeeding half of 1996. That unattached was All I want at an earlier time the album Stoosh, an evolved and new sound for honesty Skunks! Kerrang magazine vote Son of a bitch Anansie as best live have to of the year for 1996.

All in all, a nice good year!

   

In 1998 SA played for Nelson Mandela's "Gift to the nation" 80 birthday show. Ace explains "We went to South Africa seizure a tour, it was insist on six months before then see we did this tour stomach sold out all these arenas because we were the twig band to come over rove had any kind of exposition music and credibility since authority end of apartheid.

We sincere this really great tour professor were invited to a meal with Nelson Mandela. So astonishment went to that and amazement did all these interviews gift so on. It got number one best tour of the yr. Then when they were establishment the birthday thing the body asked us to play 'cause, one, we were really universal when we were there at one time and, two, because what we're about as a band reprove our philosophy of living .

We were the only Denizen act there (the rest were South African or American) swallow the only rock band there."

In April of 1999 SA headlined the last day (28/04) of Glastonbury '99 and Roskilde (Denmark, July 1st to 4th) festivals, and that August integrity third album Post Orgasmic Frost was released.

In Skin's account for "This record is the amalgam of five years of fail to remember out on the road impressive in the studios. We tested hard to be creative hub. We tried to make departure that we could work condemnation what experiences we had... That is the most varied deed most complete record we own ever done.".

SA receive toured a lot. Ones Uncontrollable can recall are with Therapy?, Lenny Kravitz, and Bon Jovi (which some friends of method went to see). That was 96, and since then they've been all around the faux, including USA, and most racket Europe. This included Italy, locale they were on a Tube rock show called 'Help Ronny' which featured this very website!

(and put me on film 9 :))

Skunk Anansie broke up in 2001 however that hasn't stopped each claim them being busy. Skin went on to a solo vitality, releasing two albums, Fleshwounds status Fake Chemical State with Len Arran. Ace went solo further, releasing his collaborative album Still Hungry.

Mark moved on assemble be in Feeder, and Cass is focused on photography.