Biography
The British rock band Skunk Anansie was founded in the mid-1990s and in the first years of existence managed to achieve unprecedented success. As part of four talented musicians, the team and now continues to perform and delight fans with creativity. In their discography, not one successful album, as they say numerous awards and nominations for the awards.The history of creation and composition
The history of the Skunk Anansie group is originated in 1994. Her vocalist Deborah Anne Dyer (Skin) before that worked in the same team with bassist Richard Lewis (Case). When the former team was on the verge of decay, they became acquainted with the guitarist Martin Ivor Kent (Ace), who performed with The Screaming Amoebas. Musicians united and created a new project. And a little later, the drummer Robbie Franc joined the trio. True, he quickly left, and his place was already on an ongoing basis a new member Mark Richardson.
Music
Immediately after creation, the Skunk Anansie group began recording common songs. And after 5 months, the guys have concluded an agreement with the Lieblass One Little Indian. On this sound recording studio, the team members and created the first songs that later brought them a recognition. True, artists's fame did not always wore a positive character, because of some texts and the name of the vocalist, which she uses on stage, they were often accused of Nazism.In the fall of 1995, the Group presented to the listeners a debut album, called Paranoid & Sunburnt. He immediately replenished the top ten of the Britain's best disks. To record music, the team chose not one genre, clearly traced a mixture of hard rock, reggae, punk and funk.
An important component of the musicians had live performances and concerts. In an interview with Skunk Anansie, admitted that if the group only recorded songs in the studio, she would have broken down. Save friendly relationships and not lose inspiration and love for music all this time they were helped by long trips through the cities of Great Britain and other countries.
The team also did not forget about new singles and in the intervals between the tour, in October 1996, introduced the Stoosh disk. This time in the tracks, there was a clear sound in the tracks, because when creating, all the tools were not written separately, but they sounded together.
The following 3 years career group devotes exclusively touring. Fans of rockers did not have to wait before they heard new tracks with the 3rd plates post Orgasmic Chill. Then the tour was followed in its support, and in 2001, the artists made a public statement on the termination of collaboration. Such news strongly upset fans, but it did not affect the solution of the team.
Again to be together on stage Skunk Anansie chance only in 2009. Moreover, the group did not use the old name, the concert tour of the musicians were held called SCAM, created by adding the first letters of their stage pseudonyms. The came up to the concert tickets were sold out for 20 minutes. Then they released the collection of Smashes and Trashes, in which, in addition to old tracks, three new songs entered. And the fifth album Wonderlustre presented to listeners a year after the previous one.
The team of Russian students pleased with the presence in the summer of 2011, when he arrived in Samara to the "Rock over Volga" festival, and then visited a similar event in St. Petersburg. In the fall of 2012, Skunk Anansie presents another Black Traffic plate. After reunification, the group performed no longer as often, as before, but the artists did not give themselves for themselves to forget new tracks and participation in festivals and rock concerts.
In 2016, the release of the 7th album AnarchYTEcture was released, the songs for him were written in London with the use of former reception, so the composition sounds like concert records. And after the team went to the tour in Europe.
Skunk Anansie now
Musicians and now stand up, as well as regularly please fans with new songs. In 2019, the Skunk Anansie Group noted the 25th anniversary, in honor of which all summer toured in Europe, and also released a special concert drive dedicated to this event. At the same time, they gave fans a new single What You do for for love and removed on it a clip in black and white colors.
The group has a profile in "Instagram", where the musicians are divided with subscribers from the past events.
Discography
- 1995 - Paranoid & Sunburnt
- 1996 - Stoosh.
- 1999 - POST Orgasmic Chill
- 2009 - Smashes and Trashes
- 2010 - Wonderlustre.
- 2012 - Black Traffic
- 2016 - AnarchyTeRe.
Clips
- 2009 - Hemedonism
- 2009 - Weak
- 2009 - SELLING JESUS
- 2010 - Squander
- 2010 - BECAUSE OF YOU
- 2011 - You Saved Me
- 2015 - Love Someone Else
- 2019 - What You Do For Love