Skunk Anansie

Skunk Anansie formed in February 1994, and played their first gig at the Splash club, in Kings Cross, London in March. In July, they signed to UK label One Little Indian. Their first singles that year "Selling Jesus" which they sang in the film Strange Days and "I Can Dream" were warmly accepted.SA's real debut was with their track Little Baby Swastikka. In March of 1995, they landed a session with national UK radio station Radio One, who gave them exclusive airplay and gave away 2000 copies of the session recording of LBS as prizes to lucky stations listeners.They were chosen by New Musical Express for the Brat Bus Tour, and established themselves as one of the hottest bands of 95, later confirmed by their being voted Best British Band in the Kerrang magazine 1995 awards.The debut album, Paranoid and Sunburnt, had sold more than 100,000 copies and went GOLD by June 96.When the touring finished, the band were back in the studio recording a new single and album, released in the later half of 1996. That single was All I want and the album Stoosh, an evolved and new sound for the Skunks! Kerrang magazine vote Skunk Anansie as best live band of the year for 1996. All in all, a pretty good year!In 1998 SA played for Nelson Mandela's "Gift to the nation" 80th birthday show.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 the third album Post Orgasmic Chill was released. In Skin's words "This record is the amalgamation of five years of experience out on the road and in the studios. We tried hard to be creative here. We tried to make sure that we could work with what experiences we had... This is the most varied and most complete record we have ever done.".SA have toured all around the world, including USA, and most of Europe. This included Italy, where they were on a TV rock show called 'Help Ronny'...Skunk Anansie broke up in 2001, but that hasn't stopped each of them being busy. Skin went on to a solo career, releasing two albums, Fleshwounds and Fake Chemical State with Len Arran. Ace went solo also, releasing his collaborative album Still Hungry. Mark moved on to be in Feeder. And Cass is focused on photography.