Skunk Anansie Reform.

[Sadken]

Yeah, what clothes did she actually wear? My white bread chauvisnist world was so rocked by the power of her as a black woman lesbian singing about sex that I plum forgot to notice.

 

[kained&able]

i remmeber bllack and lots of combats. Like an all saint really.

dave

 

[Iam]

Still, at least its not Toploader reforming eh

This is a good point. We should be thankfull for these small moments of mercy.

 

[blooper]

I used to quite like them, but I was in my early/mid-teens. They were really good at Glastonbury on the Sunday night in 99, however.

 

[lights.out.london]

Great voice, great vintage FX pedal collection (if it's the original guitarist).

 

[Iam]

Shame about the shit songs and pedestrian playing though, eh?

 

[lights.out.london]

I think I have the first (only?) album - it was kinda sub-level pop/metal. Mind you, me and the then missus had just moved into a flat in Holborn, and it was her album of that summer. *memories* *good riddance*

 

[May Kasahara]

I really liked Skins voice

bleurgh. i fucking hated her voice. and their shite lyrics, sense of humour bypass and grindingly ordinary attempts at music. but most of all i hated the impression she always gave of being so fucking pleased with herself, as if she was doing something so rad. i'm a black woman! singing rock music! and did you notice my shaved head? i bet that's blown your tiny world apart, eh?

fuck off back to obscurity and take your piss-weak complaint rock with you.

 

[Gerry1time]

Their first album and especially some of the B sides off its singles were good i thought, still do, saw them at Phoenix '96 as well and remember them being really good.

By the time '97, popularity and the second album rolled around, they'd lost a lot of it, never even noticed if they did a third one.

 

[El Jefe]

bleurgh. i fucking hated her voice. and their shite lyrics, sense of humour bypass and grindingly ordinary attempts at music. but most of all i hated the impression she always gave of being so fucking pleased with herself, as if she was doing something so rad. i'm a black woman! singing rock music! and did you notice my shaved head? i bet that's blown your tiny world apart, eh?

fuck off back to obscurity and take your piss-weak complaint rock with you.

<STANDING OVATION>

 

[Madusa]

I went to see them at Brixton Academy once...they put on a really good show.

Skin kinda flopped when she tried to do her solo stuff. Guess that's all there is left.

 

[Vamos666]

Yeah, what clothes did she actually wear? My white bread chauvisnist world was so rocked by the power of her as a black woman lesbian singing about sex that I plum forgot to notice.

 

[Pieface]

so what you wore a lot of black? she hardly got the most unique style if you take away the lack of hair.

dave

She had a good line in pvc trousers and satin shirts. And massive boots. And so did I for a short time

 

[lights.out.london]

bleurgh. i fucking hated her voice. and their shite lyrics, sense of humour bypass and grindingly ordinary attempts at music. but most of all i hated the impression she always gave of being so fucking pleased with herself, as if she was doing something so rad. i'm a black woman! singing rock music! and did you notice my shaved head? i bet that's blown your tiny world apart, eh?

fuck off back to obscurity and take your piss-weak complaint rock with you.

lmao - blimey. Did she knock over your pint in the Dublin or Monarch one evening?

 

[5t3IIa]

bleurgh. i fucking hated her voice. and their shite lyrics, sense of humour bypass and grindingly ordinary attempts at music. but most of all i hated the impression she always gave of being so fucking pleased with herself, as if she was doing something so rad. i'm a black woman! singing rock music! and did you notice my shaved head? i bet that's blown your tiny world apart, eh?

fuck off back to obscurity and take your piss-weak complaint rock with you.

They always struck me as an executives wet-dream. All style, no substance.

Saying that I do have a few nice memories of that year. I think Moloko's Bring It Back was around the same time and I still luv Roisin

 

[Cloo]

Great vocalist, good fun live, music so-so. She seems to have become a professional fashion-whore in the interim.

 

[ouchmonkey]

The Family Cat, Catherine Wheel, Thousand yard Stare, Mega City 4, Senseless Things, all to reform.

You know Midway Still are back together don't you?
The most superflous band of all time surely?
A poor man's Swervedriver. Who are also playing again.
have they all been working on Wall St. or something?

 

[Iam]

dodgepot said the reformed 'Driver weren't very good.

I'd love to see the Catherine Wheel again, though.

 

[Taxamo Welf]

I remember, at the height of their fame, I went to get a sandwich at a cafe near Great Portland Street. I walked in and the counter was at the front, and seating to the rear. I couldn't see whether there was a spare table because someone was standing in the corridor. I was looking intently past them, and then the foreground came into focus and it was Skin - who was proudly staring back at me with a "yes it really is me" look on her face. I really hope my total lack of interest came across as I walked straight past her and sat down to eat my sandwich, leaving her resplendant at the counter.

hahaha thats a cool story.

Still a great band

 

[Taxamo Welf]

Skunk Anansie were fucking awful. Faux-anger, sub-metal noodling, helium voiced idiot singer. They weren't even a real band, they were formed by an A&R man to back Skin and then stuck out on the toilet circuit to make it look like they'd paid their dues.

...and they overcame these obstacles to form a great band

 

[Taxamo Welf]

Great vocalist, good fun live, music so-so. She seems to have become a professional fashion-whore in the interim.

yes that is true, very desperate looking website - listing all her z list appearances in a 'hire me hire me pls i'm famous' way....

still, she was once part of Skunk Anansie, who were a great band

 

[Taxamo Welf]

also: Skunk Anansie aren't as bad as RATM, who everyone my age loves unrepentantly.

Fucking RATM

 

[Iam]

Skunk Anansie, who were a great band

You keep telling yourself that.

 

[bluestreak]

She had a good line in pvc trousers and satin shirts. And massive boots. And so did I for a short time

Pics or it didn't happen.

 

[Taxamo Welf]

go on then El Jefe, who were SA poorly imitating?

What unlistenable shit are you going to reccommend i listen to this time

 

[longdog]

<skips thread>

Which TOTP presented was it that got in the shit for saying... "They're black and white and they stink"?

 

[lights.out.london]

Fucking RATM

Great guitar sound and tones on the first album.