play guitar.” Tat was a throwaway comment, a Facebook status update from one of the members of Skunk Anansie, but in one sentence they encapsulate the motivation behind their 2009 reformation. Tey could have rested up, floated aloft on the success of their first three, faultless albums – can you tell? I’m a fan – but there’s an inherent desire in Skin, Cass, Ace and Mark to express, to create, and that’s seen them release a further two albums. Te last of which pissed all over the idea of them coming back for a greatest hits, trading-on-the-name quickie backstage by being a full-length studio release. Tey came back, and now their intentions are clear – they’re here to stay.
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My body says go to bed. My brain says
SHABBY, NO, BUT I DID GET HELD UP ATGUNPOINTTHOUGH!
NOT TOO
How are you doing this morning? Erm, I’m good thanks, yeah, very good. I got up early this morning and went for a run, so that’s always a good way to start the day.
Yeah, are you getting into pre-tour fitness or something? Well I went travelling for two months and I just got back two days ago, so I’ve got to get back into it. I went to New Zealand – started off in Dallas, New Zealand, Los Angeles, Brazil - went to a bunch of places in Brazil, mainly Brazil.
Tat’s not too shabby at all! Not too shabby, no, but I did get held up at gunpoint though! [LAUGHS]
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Wha….?! No, where at?! In a place called Maceió, which is in northern Brazil, just on the beach, walking down the beach, this guy starts waving his gun at us, you know. We were on the beach, so we were literally in bikinis and shorts! I just said to the guy, ‘you know what, we ain’t got nothing fuckin’ on us, we ain’t got nothing!’
[LAUGHS] And when you come out with that Brixton accent, I imagine he just backed off, did he? He just cooled it, quit, backed off, ran away! You know what I mean?! [LAUGHS]
Now you came to the UEA back in
2010 and it went off, it was awesome. Do you remember much of that gig? Yeah, it was great… and we’re better now. We’re better!
I can attest to that actually; I’ve seen you many times live, but having seen you last year at the Village Underground, I can agree that you get even better. Tat was an explosive, intimate gig… God, was that last year? Woah, well we’re another level better now. I think that with the first album, we were really getting ourselves back together again and the tour that we did, the European Tour last year saw us go to another level. But that Village Underground gig was great.
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