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Jackson will be joined on the trip later this year by spiritual advisor Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and the Rev. Fuck those Mary Whitehouse anti-grime, anti-youth, buy-your-gentrified-house-off-black-folk-then-complain-bitches! In another life, Skin might have been an interior designer, off the back of the degree she studied for at Teesside before joining the band.

What did you mean by that? Skin : I was quite shy growing up; my mother was religious and I was always trying to conform. Later I realised that I was just not the girl next door and I was never gonna be. Once I became OK with that, my confidence really grew, in myself and in my performances onstage. Skin: That was Later on, when you formed the band, you were based in Kings Cross.

Was there a black community there? Skin: It was very multicultural, especially later. We were all hanging around rehearsing and the Splash Club was kind of our home. There were all these bands in Kings Cross. It was only when we got signed and started touring that we realised we were really weird and our little scene was very alien. Skin: We were anti-Britpop!

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ISBN X. The Observer. So I was able to be myself and work out who I was, discover what I wanted to do and how I wanted to do it; have lots of different experiences and experimentations with things, with arts and music, with gay culture, with being a student. With social media you have ways to find your people online, and you can be in a town in the middle of nowhere but you can experience a whole world and be connected to people all over the world.

It was normal to be homophobic, and most people had that viewpoint. So when we started going to school and having school dinners it was a little alien at first. That feels good. Also, my mum did a lot of higher education, she loved studying. I think that was quite a good example growing up — you have to work to learn something, and you finish it.

But you spend a lot of time backstage on your own. And I think it actually did that. Those early gigs we were one of the best bands Britain has ever seen.