My recollection is that by the time they headlined Glastonbury Skunk Anansie were fairly gone from the public consciousness. They released the third album March that year and as a fan I didn’t really dig the singles and didn’t bother buying it. They disbanded in 2001.
Their performance at Glastonbury was really good, though. I had seen them already and as I say, not that into the new stuff, but I stopped by and stayed for the set. They got the Sunday slot though which is a bit of a wind-down and really I seem to recall a bit of bemusement that they were the headliner so I’ve never really been sure if a bigger act actually fell through or something.
Anyway, big love for SA in their heyday. They’re also very much in the film Strange Days which is similarly one of those things that seems to be forgotten but when you consider it was written by James Cameron, directed by Oscar winner Kathryn Bigelow and stars Ralph Feinnes that too is a bit weird.
I can only suggest it’s because SA were always too ‘metal’ to be quite in the Indie thing (I know I was a bit of a pariah for being into them) and not really metal enough to be big with the rockers. There’s a lot of that late 90s stuff that hasn’t really been revived like Big Beat or Trip Hop, but at least that’s a good thing. 
