“About 10 or 15 years ago, we played a festival in Germany. We got there early and all fucking day it was hardcore techno. The last band before us came off and everybody started booing because they knew Skunk Anansie were coming on. We walked on and they started hurling bottles. Halfway through the second song I lost my temper, like, ‘How fucking dare you?’ I called them all kinds of things. They went quiet and then, on the third song, they were like, ‘Oh, she’s quite aggressive…’ and you saw the vibe change. By the fourth song they started moshing, and by the end it was brilliant – we did two encores!”