“I’ve missed tour buses very much, which is the least of the reasons why I have decided to tour The Streets again,” Mike Skinner has said after restarting the band which put the youth culture of the UK at the start of his century to music better than anyone else upon the release of debut album Original Pirate Material in 2002.
The tour will be a greatest hits affair for The Streets and is to visit Birmingham, Glasgow, Manchster, Leeds and London in April next year. “The other thing I’ve missed is trying to think up what I’m going to say in the gap between the songs,” Skinner continues.
“When you DJ they tell you that you don’t need a tour bus and you don’t need to think up things to say between the songs. But seriously, it’s been long enough. With my Tonga parties, the new rap and grime MC’s I have been producing and the DJing, I have been living with music since making The Streets for nearly as long as I made The Streets.”
“I’m not the guy smoking in the car anymore though, I have become the guy in the club, so I hope I will be excused for putting on after parties in nightclubs after every show.”
Tour dates:
April 2018
19 – Birmingham, O2 Academy
20 – Glasgow, O2 Academy
21 – Manchester, O2 Apollo
23 – Leeds, O2 Academy
25,26 – London, O2 Academy Brixton