Skin cancels Roskilde

Unfortunately, Skin has cancelled her appearance at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark. The festival's website states that 'Skin will not play this years Roskilde festival after all'. (link...) There is no reports to why she has cancelled.

Purple - UK Release and Video Shoot

A member of Skin's forum (Theo) recently received an email from the V2 UK team. The email said the video will be shot this week and Purple may be released in a couple of months time.

Hi Theo,
this will get a UK release but no date has been confirmed yet and I dont have details of the B sides yet.
Video will be shot tomorrow so I guess it wont be released for a couple of months yet
Sorry I cant tell you more at this time.

This could signal release for all of Europe.

Purple Tracklistings

As previously reported, Purple will be released as a single in the Netherlands. The CD single will contain 4 tracks and the download EP will contain an extra track; a live acoustic version of Nothing But.

CD Tracklisting:

1. Purple
2. Just Let The Sun (Live Acoustic)
3. Purple (Live Acoustic)
4. Hedonism (Live Acoustic)

Download EP Tracklisting:

1. Purple
2. Nothing But (Live Acoustic)
3. Just Let The Sun (Live Acoustic)
4. Purple (Live Acoustic)
5. Hedonism (Live Acoustic)

More Festival dates Announced

As well as dates such as Pinkpop in the Netherlands and Hurricane/Southside in Germany, Skin has announced even more festival dates. New dates have neem confirmed in Turkey, Germany, Italy and Switzerland.

This means the festivals she will be playing so far are (new dates in bold):

• Unimayfest - Turkey - 27th May, 2006
• Festival des Papillons de nuit - France - 3rd June, 2006
• Pinkpop - Netherlands - 5th June, 2006
• Caribana Festival - Switzerland - 9th June, 2006
• Southside Festival - Germany - 23rd June, 2006
• Hurricane Festival - Germany - 24th June, 2006
• Cornetto Free Music Festival - Italy - 25th June, 2006
• Rock Werchter - Belgium - 30th June, 2006
• Roskilde - Denmark - (Date cancelled)
• Open'er Festival - Poland - 7th July, 2006
• Gurtenfestival - Switzerland - 14th July, 2006
• Arezzo Wave Love - Italy - 15th July, 2006
• Openair Val Lumnezia - Switzerland - 21st July, 2006
• Das Fest - Germany - 30th July, 2006
• Rock en Seine - France - 26th August, 2006

More soon...

'Purple' being released in The Netherlands

According to V2 Netherlands, Purple will be the third single to be released in the Netherlands. The single will be released with 3 extra acoustic-live tracks: Just Let The Sun, Purple and Hedonism which were recorded on a live session for 3FM on the 22nd of April, 2006. It is not clear whether the single will be released elsewhere; the V2 site claims that it is a special release for the Netherlands only. The cover featured is on the left. The release date in the Netherlands is May 29th, 2006.

Purple is de opvolger van de hit Just Let The Sun en, inclusief de download-only track Alone In My Room, de derde single van het album Fake Chemical State. Deze single is speciaal voor Nederland gemaakt en bevat naast de albumversie van Purple de drie akoestische live-tracks Just Let The Sun, Purple en de Skunk Anansie-klassieker Hedonism. Deze werden op 22 april jl. opgenomen tijdens de That’s Live sessie van BNN/3FM. Op maandag 5 juni is SKIN te zien op het hoofdpodium van Pinkpop.

Roughly translated, that means:

'Purple' is the follow up to 'Just Let The Sun', and including the download only track 'Alone in my Room', it is the third single to be taken from 'Fake Chemical State'. The single has been specially produced for the Netherlands featuring the album version of 'Purple' and includes three live-acoustic tracks; 'Just Let The Sun', 'Purple' and the Skunk Anansie classic 'Hedonism'. These are taken from the That's Live session for BNN/3FM on the 22nd April. On Monday, 5th June, Skin will head the stage of Pinkpop.