What sites show up if you type "S" into your browser's address bar?
My first one is http://www.sierrarica.com/ a Spanish food producer. I must have gone on their site to check out recipes when I bought one of their products, most likely chestnuts.
Then there is http://www.skinmusic.net/.
For those unfamiliar with her work, she was lead singer of a band called Skunk Anansie which is where I discovered her. She left the band after three albums in 2001 and went solo. She has the most amazing voice, is a fantastic live performer and bloody scary looking despite having quite a soft, feminine voice.
Her first gig as a solo artist was incredible. It was at the Scala in Kings Cross, a small, intimate venue and every single person there was a massive fan. She was humbled by the response she got and put on an incredible show.
The last time I saw her was at King's College student union early last year. Mosh and I worked out that some of the students there hadn't been born when we went to our first gig, which was slightly depressing. What cheered us up - apart from Skin's rocking performance obviously - was amusing ourselves by observing the very heavily styled hair most of the students were sporting, the like of which I haven't seen since the new romantic era in the eighties. Several pharmaceutical companies were making a lot of money in hair products alone that night.
But I digress, Skin is currently recording a new album having done a spot of modelling earlier this year for Italian designer Gianfranco Ferre. It is her third album and naturally I'm very excited about it, not least because it will inevitably lead to a tour. Her myspace has a lot of her solo work to listen to. She did a quietish album first then rocked out again for the second.
I've been listening to some tracks and trying to work out which ones to post which best represent her. It is damn difficult as there is so much good stuff but here goes. This is from Skunk Anansie's first album Paranoid & Sunburnt: