The band celebrated their 40th anniversary with the “Mekonville” festival near Ipswich , England, with both the current 2017 line-up and the re-united original 1977 lineup performing. At that festival, Mekonville , a 12-inch “split single” was released, with one new song from each of the two line-ups. The 2017…
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Stay Together was toured across Europe in early 2017.
2017 saw the band record and release a collection of classic reggae covers under the title League Style, Loosen Up Vol I .
A new official Mansun website was launched in January 2017, honouring the band’s back catalogue and legacy.
The band’s seventh album Forever was released in mid-2017.
At the end of 2017, Michael Thomas was replaced by Jason Bowld full-time.
In 2017, the band launched the first Skunk Anansie scholarship, for young aspiring musicians, in conjunction with The Academy of Contemporary Music . The band pick one successful applicant from either ACM Guildford, ACM London or ACM Birmingham and offer them £27,000 of funding for their degree course. The scholarship…
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As part of the Queen + Adam Lambert Tour 2017–2018 , the band toured North America in mid-2017,
In 2017 Curve re-released the Doppelganger CD as a double album. This release included their first three EPs.
Europe in late 2017,