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“MCR do more with fans’ ticket money than any other band of their generation”: My Chemical Romance put on the biggest spectacle in stadium rock as they start trilogy of Wembley shows

Supported by Skunk Anansie, the emo icons let their inner theatre kids run roughshod – with nonstop dazzling results

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"Story after story and it's all true, all life experience." Skunk Anansie's Skin on why Amy Winehouse's Back To Black is one of her favourite albums, but why she can't listen to its biggest hit

"I thought it was some old black woman"

Louder

"I met God when I was high on opioids! It was a spectacular moment of realisation." Garbage's Shirley Manson on love, grief, and that beachball incident

Garbage and Skunk Anansie embark on a co-headlining UK tour next week

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"I was single, but having a very secret and naughty relationship with someone whose name can never be mentioned." Skin shares the stories behind 10 Skunk Anansie classics

The best of Skunk Anansie, in Skin's own words

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Alanis Morissette and Skunk Anansie added to inaugural State Fayre Festival line-up following the cancellation of Neil Young's European tour

Alanis Morissette confirmed as new headliner for "the UK's biggest music and BBQ festival"

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Alanis Morissette announces UK and Ireland 2026 outdoor tour with Skunk Anansie

Canadian star Alanis Morissette will play outdoor summer shows in Cork, Exeter, Woodstock, Lytham, London and Glasgow

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"We can't wait to see you all" Skunk Anansie, Joan Jett, Interpol & more have been announced as the supports for My Chemical Romance's shows in the UK and Europe next Summer

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Here’s the line-up of every major festival in 1995… and it actually isn’t very different to how they’ve shaped up 30 years later

Britpop was thriving, Pumpkins were Pumpkinsing, and Skunk Anansie tried to get on every bill going…

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"It was a very slow descent, but it was a descent - we were going in the wrong direction": How Skunk Anansie saved themselves from sickness and uncertain times

Skunk Anansie’s future hung in the balance, but a new album and the power of love changed everything

Metal Hammer

Skunk Anansie: The Painful Truth review – a raw triumph of reinvention and resilience

On their first LP in almost a decade, made as two members were treated for cancer, the rockers shrug off their 90s heyday with an experimental mindset

The Guardian - UK

Skunk Anansie’s Skin: ‘We got slated when we were booked to headline Glastonbury’

Pioneering rock artist was the subject of a racist, homophobic and misogynistic backlash when her band were booked to top the Pyramid Stage, but says they used it as fuel for their fire when they performed in 1999

The Independent UK

Black Sabbath - The Farewell Interview: Ozzy, Tony, Geezer and Bill, only in the new issue of Classic Rock

Also in this issue: Ghost, The Doobie Brothers, Skunk Anansie, Motörhead, Masters Of Reality, Robin Trower, Goo Goo Dolls, John Lydon, The Stranglers, When Rivers Meet and more

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"Skunk Anansie's most musically ambitious album yet": Skin & Co's The Painful Truth is their best work in decades

Veteran Brit-rockers Skunk Anansie defy challenging timeswith ambitious midlife reboot The Painful Truth

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The Painful Truth is Skunk Anansie's most vital and inventive album in years

Where many bands coast on past glories thirty years in, Skunk Anansie have served up something special

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"There was a lot of rejection, because I was a skinny Black girl trying to be the singer of a rock band." How Skunk Anansie's Skin went from Bob Marley-attended basement parties to a Glastonbury-headlining Britrock icon

From Oasis attending their early gigs to hanging out with David Bowie and Lemmy, Skin became a true rock icon in the 90s

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The best new rock songs you need to hear right now

Featuring Skunk Anansie, Gotthard, Fishbone and five other horsemen and horsewomen of the rockpocalypse

The Independent UK

Rock band SpaceAcre to support Skunk Anansie at The Great Escape festival

Unsigned indie-rock duo are preparing to head out on their first UK headline tour

The Independent UK

Skunk Anansie drummer Mark Richardson shares cancer diagnosis: ‘Please get checked out’

Rock musician urged his followers to take up ‘easy’ checks to see whether they were at risk

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"Five were f***ing horrible." Skunk Anansie icon Skin shares what it was like being buddies with David Bowie and Lemmy, and run-ins with 90s boybands

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Skunk Anansie’s Skin announced as keynote speaker at The Great Escape 2025

Exclusive keynote conversation will take place in Brighton this May

The Independent UK

Skunk Anansie to headline The Independent’s stage at The Great Escape Festival

Rare intimate performance will take place a week before the release of the band’s first album in nine years

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"Touring Australia with the Sex Pistols was horrendous. Seeing the audience doing Nazi salutes really wore me down, and Johnny Rotten didn’t say anything." Skunk Anansie's Skin recalls "violent" 1996 tour with the Sex Pistols

For Britrock stars Skunk Anansie, joining the Sex Pistols Filthy Lucre reunion tour was one of the worst experiences of their lives

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“We don’t write love songs, we write hate songs”: how Skunk Anansie gave 90s British rock a shock to the system

As their debut single turns 30, we head back to the beginnings of a scintillating quartet who’ve always done things their own way

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The best new rock songs you need to hear right now

Including The Darkness, The Wildhearts, Rose Tattoo and five other masters of rock'n'roll reality

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