36 episodes
Skin Tings Absolute Radio
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4.4 • 87 Ratings
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Skin has been in the music industry for over 30 years, making music and headlining festivals with her band Skunk Anansie. She currently hosts her own show on Absolute Radio, where she interviews her musical heroes, famous friends, and the most exciting up and coming talent. From Debbie Harry to Paul Weller to Arlo Parks, Skin and her guests relive past experiences, swop stories on and off tour, look ahead to new music, and generally just spill the tea. But there’s only so much time on radio. So, finding the chats touching, interesting and inspiring, Skin wants to give you the chance to hear the full conversations in all their glory – just a couple of musicians having a heart to heart. This is Skin Tings.
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International Women's Day Special
In this very special episode of the Skin Show, Sophie K was in conversation with the Skunk Anansie legend to celebrate International Women’s Day.
They talked about some of the female heroes who inspired them growing up and played a key role in their personal lives & career development.
Skin & Sophie also discussed their experiences as women in the music & radio industries in which they have forged their livelihoods, as well as highlighting the women who continue to influence them to this day. -
Eaves Wilder
This episode of Skin Tings, Skin introduces you to one of her favourite new artists, Eaves Wilder. They chat about how Eaves approaches songwriting by channelling experiences growing up and writing for her past self. She talks about which musicians who she has looked up to and why, and discusses developing as a live artist.
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Stewart Copeland
Drumming great, Stewart Copeland chats to Skin about his new album, Police Deranged For Orchestra, which takes Police classics and turns them on their head. Plus, he talks about how he got into playing drums and gives insight into his time drumming in the Police.
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Izzy B. Phillips (Black Honey)
Singer & guitarist from Black Honey, Izzy B. Phillips, joins Skin for a chat about Brighton, the internet and how they've made one of Skin's favourite albums of the year, A Fistful of Peaches.
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Joe Talbot
Skin is joined on this episode of Skin Tings by the irrepressible front man of the band, Idles. Joe talks about what inspired him thematically and musically growing up, how the band go about writing their music and of course, politics.
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Justin Hawkins
The Darkness frontman Justin Hawkins joins Skin on this episode of Skin Tings. They discuss Justin’s hugely loved Youtube & Tik Tok channels, walking the fine line between what’s cool and what’s not in rock music, and of course Christmas music!
Customer Reviews
Such a great listen
Love every single one of these episodes - such great intimate chats, more please Skin ❤️
Great first series of podcasts with interesting and varied musicians
I’ve loved this entire series and am looking forward to more! Skin is a totally natural interviewer and has a great rapport with her guests which results is some fascinating and highly entertaining chats 😀
Annie Lennox is not as aware of the world as she says she is.
If so, she perhaps would have added Some caveats when talking about how much she admires her artist daughters ability to focus and paint all day.
What is more difficult is to work a minimum wage job, scraping it altogether to buy exactly what you need to create the thing you have in mind, then find the time and space to do it well in one go because you cannot afford to make a mistake.
But you know, it is nice she admires and loves her daughter. I believe radical youths would call this checking her privilege. Admittedly she earned her privilege from a wonderful career but my point is her daughter isn’t quite earning it in the same way, so being mindful of that would be nice. Not that it changes the quality of the podcast, just that I was happier listen to Annie Lennox sing before I heard her be interviewed.
Oh well.