CULT rock act Skunk Anansie are back for another tour and are better than ever, according to frontwoman Skin.

Following a sold-out, 20 date European tour in support of their latest album, Black Traffic, the four-piece will perform at Bristol’s O2 Academy on March 24.

The band debuted in 1994, and were named the Best New British Band by Kerrang! magazine the following year.

Success followed in the form of three albums – Paranoid and Sunburnt, Stoosh and Post Orgasmic Chill – and a string of hit singles which saw them become a regular fixture in the UK charts in the 1990s.

They broke up in 2004, but a reunion in 2009 has prompted two more albums, with 2010’s Wonderlustre preceding last year’s Black Traffic.

And Brixton-born Skin is certain that fans who go along to the see the band on their latest tour will see a better Skunk Anansie than ever before.

She told the Mercury: “I think we are more powerful. We’re a better band than we have ever been and we are better at playing our instruments.

“If you’ve been playing together as a band for 20 years then you’ve got to be better.

“I always had the impression that we were quite crazy back in the 1990s, but I now think I run around a lot more than I ever used to.”

The new tour will feature a healthy mix of songs from their 1990s heyday and material from their last two albums, but Skin is promising an old-fashioned dose of raw energy to go alongside a lean set packed with hits and fan favourites.

She continued: “I think we are one of the best live bands around – I think a lot of current acts just stand there behind the mic, and we’re from the 1990s when everyone wanted to jump around – we like to give it our all.”

The band will release their next single, This Is Not A Game, on March 25.

Tickets for the show, priced £27, are available by calling 0844 4772000 or visiting www.o2academybristol.co.uk