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  • Skunk Anansie
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  • Skunk Anansie
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  • Musical groups established in 1994
  • Musical groups reestablished in 2009
  • English indie rock groups
  • English rock music groups
  • Musical groups from London
  • Musical groups disestablished in 2001
  • English alternative rock groups
  • One Little Indian Records artists
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  • Skunk Anansie was formed in 1994 and broke up around 2001.They reunited again in 2009.The Band took their name from the combination of the mammal (skunk) and a spider from Jamaican folk stories (anansie).Line-up:Deborah Anne Dyer AKA Skin): vocals.Richard 'Cass' Lewis: bass.Martin %22Ace%22 Kent: guitar.Robbie French: drums.Mark Richardson (5): drums (%22Stoosh%22 album and later).
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  • Skunk Anansie are a British band whose members include Skin (lead vocals), Cass (guitar, bass, backing vocals), Ace (guitar, backing vocals) and Mark Richardson (drums and percussion).Skunk Anansie formed in March 1994, disbanded in 2001 and reformed in 2009. The name %22Skunk Anansie%22 is taken from Akann folk tales of Anansi the spider-man of Ghana, with %22Skunk%22 added to %22make the name nastier%22.They have released five studio albums: Paranoid & Sunburnt (1995), Stoosh (1996), Post Orgasmic Chill (1999), Wonderlustre (2010), Black Traffic (2012), one compilation album Smashes and Trashes (2009) and several hit singles, including %22Charity%22, %22Hedonism%22, %22Selling Jesus%22 and %22Weak%22.They are often grouped as part of a Britrock movement, running alongside Britpop. The band, in 2004, was named as one of the most successful UK chart acts between 1952 and 2003 by the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums, with a total of 141 weeks on both the singles and album charts ranking them at No. 491. When the book first published this annual top 500 list in 2000, it only involved weeks spent on the singles chart until 2004's 17th edition, meaning the band's highest ranking has not been notified in any of the past editions.
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  • Shunk Anansie
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  • Skunk Anasie
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  • 1994
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  • 1025
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  • 11394
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  • Skunk Anansie
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  • Epic Records
  • Virgin Records
  • One Little Indian
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  • Rock
  • Alternative Rock
  • Britpop
  • Hard Rock
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