Skin's Guitar up for Charity Auction

On the 20th November, 2007 at The 02, London, Skin's Red Energy Gibson SG Guitar will be put up for auction. The charity auction, held by Gibson Guitartown, is in aid of Robbins Music Therapy, The Prince's Trust and Teenage Cancer Trust. The striking red guitar features a silhouette of Skin and was created by Dan Savage. Currently the guitar is up for pre-auction before going to the actual auction in November. The pre-auction on eBay can be seen by clicking here. More images of the guitar also appear on the eBay page.

Skin features on R&B Album from Boundzound

It recently emerged that Skin is featured on two tracks on a German artist's album. She contributed to the album from 'Boundzound', an R&B/hip-hop offering from Berlin. The album, also called 'Boundzound' was released in Germany on April 27th, 2007.

Skin contributes vocals to the tracks 'Every Day' and 'All Times'. Clips of these tracks can be heard on the German version of shopping website Amazon by clicking here (scroll down to the Hörbeispiele section and select Reinhören next to the appropriate track).

The lyrics to the songs can be found at the band's official website, boundzound.de.

Thanks to Skin forum member Julia for this discovery.

More to come.

Skin on Channel 4 - Transmission with T-Mobile

Its been almost 3 months with no real news about Skin but tonight, Friday 5th October, 2007, Skin was featured on Channel 4's 'Transmission with T-Mobile'.

She is featured in three separate parts of the show. In the first part she takes Turin Brakes, a band from London, on a mini-tour of Brixton, telling us that she used to be a bouncer in a club in her student days. In the second part Skin interviews the band as part of the shows 'Street Gig' segment. In the final part she takes Turin Brakes to Clapham Picture House, leaving before the band go on stage to perform.

The show is re-broadcast on Channel 4 (one hour later on Channel 4+1) on these dates:

• Friday 05 October 11:35pm
• Saturday 06 October 11:50am
• Thursday 11 October 3:30am

It will also be aired on E4 (and 1 hour later on E4+1) on:

• Sunday 07 October 12:35am E4

The shows synopsis is:

Steve Jones and Lauren Laverne host a series that travels across the country to present the best in music and entertainment. The dynamic duo return to London to catch the Coral, Roisin Murphy, Gabrielle and Paul Weller.

You can also watch the show, when available, by clicking here. The show Skin features in is the London one (not present on the website at the time of this post).