The gigs will also be acting as a warm-up for Mike Skinner’s appearance with The Streets at MADE Festival on July 31st.
We’ve already established that Mike Skinner, like the rest of us, is ready for a bit of a tear up (read it both ways) should June 21st arrive with an unusually accordant message from the UK government, but a newly announced run of gigs for The Streets during the week starting on that date has taken things a step further altogether.
It was earlier this month when he first let his feelings known on the track Who’s Got The Bag (21st June), saying at the time:
“It’s been too long since I’ve been behind some decks, or on a stage, in a tour bus sleeping in a bunk. The moment we can do it we want to be the rave and we will.”
“It’s also about hospitality, events and nightclubs not being able to take anymore,” he added about the track. “It’s a protest song: it’s saying, don’t change the date on us again! FIRST IN THE ROOM. 21 June.”
He’s added today:
“I’ve always said this is a protest song and if the science allows it we’re all ready to go back to our lives on June 21st, so it made sense for us to throw a rave in Birmingham that night – but even more sense to make it a week long one.”