Skunk Anansie Reveal New Single “Cheers”

Skunk Anansie have previously announced their hugely anticipated seventh studio full length, The Painful Truth, will be released on May 23rd via FLG Records, to celebrate the band will be playing a very special headline show on day of release at Good Times at The Ridings, Chipping Sodbury, just outside Bristol, UK. The Painful Truth is the sound of Skunk Anansie facing up to who they are and what they want to become. It is more than an album title. It is a reality that they have lived through. The band have also released Cheers, the second single to be taken from the album that is accompanied by a striking lyric video.

“I don’t care that we were big in the Nineties. Creatively it’s irrelevant because in my rock bible the first commandment states, “If thy rest on them laurels thy shall wither up and die artistically, musically, mentally. And then financially.’ When we write it’s just the four of us in a room with no outside distractions or interference, getting to know each other again. We’d done the Greatest Hits tour and we realised that things needed to change. If we didn’t do something fresh and forward thinking, we couldn’t really be a band anymore. We’d just be doing Skunk karaoke. When I really think about it, yes, we have made some good records in our time but it’s been a long time since we have made a great album. And that is the painful truth. Understanding that, led us to making what I genuinely think is our greatest record yet.“ (vocalist Skin)