We are delighted to announce that you can now watch the video for the new Skunk Anansie single 'Because Of You' exclusively on Kerrang.com!


'Because Of You' will be released September 14th 2009 in the UK and is the first single to be released from the bands forthcoming greatest hits album 'Smashes And Trashes' (due for release November 2nd 2009). ‘Smashes and Trashes’ is a 15-track career-embracing album. It features classic moments from the first two Top Ten albums ‘Paranoid & Sunburnt’, ‘Stoosh’ and our 1999 album 'Post Orgasmic Chill’ and includes three brand new tracks; ‘Because Of You’, ‘Tear The Place Up’ and ‘Squander’.

REFORMATION REFORMATION REFORMATION!!

Christ do we hate it all.

Well, on our list of hated words it's right up there with, recession, ni**er, MP's expenses, and George W. Bush.

The shit of it is, that's exactly what we've done. There's no denying it, lets not beat around the Gordon Brown, WE HAVE REFORMED, we split up, and now we have reformed our ways, fixed our shit, playing together for the first time in 9 years and to speak plain... loving it.

'Reformed' to us is a bastard of a word, it's like reality TV, everyone copies it, disses it, then bleeds it dryer than a vulture chaff and it sells sells sells like a bag of old football whores, so what's the difference with Skunk Anansie? Why the freckin' Gallows should you take a flying Coldplay at us?

Well prick up those giant Obama ears cos we'll tell you why! We have actually reformed in the true meaning of the word. We have broken down, been to evil places, eaten meat, watched Big Brother, bought Heat magazine, shagged a W.A.G., thought MJ was guilty but now have his CD's on repeat, dulled bitter pain with Bitterer ale, reckoned Ms Katona's husband ain't so bad, voted Greenpeace, smoked coked-spiffs with Winehouse, hit the gutter, licked rock's bottom, then rehabbed ourselves clean to shade brighter than a Katie Price veneer.

We then looked each other in the eye and been honest about what we did, what we didn't do and what we want to do.

It made us closer, humble and thankful that our fans love us enough to let us move on to new challenges, cos let's face it, the world we've come back to... it ain't easy!

Why did we break up? Well... when we sat down together in a vain attempt to work it all out, we drank and talked, then drank and talked some more, then after that we drank, danced, shouted, drank, fell over, puked, drank, sobered up, only to realise after all that jaw ache and messiness, we broke up because we burnt out. Simples.

We are back together because we love each other and being in Skunk Anansie is what made us individually happy deep in our souls. When we are together we are complete and when we were apart we were floundering in the wilderness like a Catholic priest at a Girl Guide convention.


So get off your high horse and listen to the new tracks against the old.

Listen to the love, listen to the chemistry between us that makes it all worth it, listen to the heartfelt feeling, melody, lyrics and energy the new songs convey against the naivety, adrenaline and freedom of the old.

There's a reason why they were Smashes, they were real, we meant it, we didn't care about the outside world, we were just a bunch of kids in our dirty little Kings Cross hole with a pot full of passion, ignorantly doing our thing and the people connected and understood it.


So see this as a new beginning, this ain't no rehash, we ain't walking down memory lane in a Nirvana T-shirt, bloodshot eyes and heroin dribble whining about how uncool it is that the kids rip us off on this thing called the Internet.

There is no nostalgia in our cause for we have reclaimed our joy together, rediscovered our joint empathy, rekindled the kick arse music and re-lit the fire in our bellies for music that moves us.

We are once again complete, ready to trash the hell out of every song we play, ready to share the brutality of our tunes, why?... because we are Skunk Anansie, and that's what we do.



Skin

anybody got there albums ?
id appreciate it if somebody could help me

1 x 4 Disc Holder
1 x 4 disc vinyl digipack
4 x normal postcards
3 x panoramic postcards
16 x posters
4 x sticker sheets
44 page Anton Corbijn book

TRACKLISTING:

CD1 - 'The Greatest Hits'

1. Charlie Big Potato
2. I Can Dream
3. Hedonism (Just Because You Feel Good)
4. Tear The Place Up (new track - click here to watch video)
5. Weak
6. Secretly
7. Because Of You (new track - click here to watch video)
8. All I Want
9. Brazen (Weep)
10. Twisted
11. Squander (new track - click here to watch video)
12. Lately
13. Selling Jesus
14. Charity
15. You’ll Follow Me Down

DVD 1 - 'The Video Collection'

1. Selling Jesus
2. I Can Dream
3. Charity
4. Weak
5. All I Want
6. Twisted
7. Brazen
8. Hedonism (Uncut Version)
9. Charlie Big Potato
10. Secretly
11. Lately (Uncut Version)
12. You’ll Follow Me Down
13. Tear The Place Up
14. Because of You
15. Squander

CD 2 - 'The Best Of The Remixes'

1. Twisted - D Ramirez Remix
2. Secretly (Armand Van Helden Mix)
3. I Can Dream - Skreamix
4. Charity - High Rankin Remix
5. Brazen 'Weep' - Perfecto Mix
6. I Can Dream - Trnsstr Remix
7. Weak - Paul Woolford Remix
8. Charity - Dekker & Johan Remix
9. Hedonism (Just Because You Feel Good) - Kissy Sell Out Version
10. Selling Jesus - Rivastarr Remix
11. Because Of You - Michel Cleis Remix
12. Squander - illAudio (remix)

DVD 2 - Live Rare And Unseen'

1. I Can Dream - Roxy Bar 16/12/95
2. Weak - TFI Friday 09/02/96
3. All I Want - Roxy Bar 09/12/96
4. Selling Jesus - Splash Club 11/03/94
5. Charlie Big Potato - TFI Friday on 26/02/99
6. Hedonism – acoustic version - ‘Help!’ 06/02/97
7. We Don’t Need Who You Think You Are - ‘Later with Jools Holland’ 07/08/99
8. Secretly - TFI Friday 07/05/99
9. All In The Name Of Pity - Splash Club 11/03/94
10. Little Baby Swastikkka - Glastonbury Festival 27/06/99
11. Brazen – acoustic version - TV2 Denmark 26/08/97
12. You’ll Follow Me Down - ‘Later’ Hootenanny 31/12/99
13. The Skankheads - Glastonbury Festival 27/06/99

Drummer Mark Richardson of the reunited '90s British rockers SKUNK ANANSIE has issued the following update:

"In January of 2010 we (the freshly reformed SKUNK ANANSIE) got together to start writing a new record after almost 10 years in the wilderness. Hoorah!

"After six weeks of a daily commute to Hackney from Guildford (which involved car to the station, train to Waterloo, two tube lines, a bus and a five-minute walk) we had come the end of the writing process and whittled 80 ideas down to 25 songs.

"I love the process of song writing in SKUNK. We all bring ideas to the table and can fling them in no matter what they are, melodies, lyrics, drums and bass and guitar lines are all up for debate.

"You'd think it would take an age to get anything done being so democratic but not when everybody is of the same mind, i.e. if it's a great idea it'll get in.

"You can't be shy about putting ides forward or hurt if they don't get used but it's the best way to really maximise the best of everybody's talent and it really really works. As you'll hear on the record.

"From there we had to get really ruthless with ourselves, put any personal attachment to any songs to one side and just choose the best darn songs. 25 became 15 became 14 as we were to lose one later on, too.

"No room for any fillers on this record. We can't afford it.

"10 years away is a massive amount of time in a business which has accelerated rate of disposability, and we have a lot of catching up to do.

"As I write we are in week 3 day 3 of a seven-week recording process with Chris Sheldon at the helm for 10 of the tracks and then Jeremy Wheatley for the remaining four. I have finished all my drum tracks with Chris and have started on some of the programming aspects that will go underneath some of the songs to really make them lift, chug, wallop and propel them along.

"After our 'Smashes and Trashes' greatest-hits tour comes to an end in September, the record will be out and we'll be straight back on the road to do a huge European tour in support of it.

"I hope you love listening to it as much as I loved recording it.

"This is a really different record for us and I'm already extremely proud of what we've achieved just in terms of the songs. It's really shaping up to be something special, but then I would say that."