Music interview: ZA@Play, 28 April 2000 Yes, I’m nervous about interviewing Skunk Anansie. I mean, these are the guys who opened their second album, Stoosh, with a song especially for all the questioning journos out there: Skin spitting “Yes! It’s fucking political” over an “up yours” sonic head-butt of a guitar riff. I decide to play up my apprehensiveness (perhaps they’ll think it’s cute) and so the first thing...

(Theatre review: ZA@Play, 9 February 2000) “Nothing you can sing that can’t be sung – all you need is love,” warbled The Beatles in one of their odes to amoré. I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change takes the phrase to heart as the cast cheerfully belts out tunes dealing with love’s minutia; from shaving your “pits” before a big date to trying to squeeze in a shag between picking up the Lego and taking out the...