Mike Skinner is at pains to stress that, while there has been no new music from The Streets since 2011, he hasn’t spent the past nine years on an extended holiday. “It’s easy to think that I haven’t been doing anything, but I’ve been DJing and directing, I’ve done some producing too,” he says via a Zoom chat from his London home. “The difference is in the audience, not me.
When you call something The Streets it becomes a big thing. So I can say that I haven’t been anywhere, but the audience might have been.” The Streets is undeniably a big thing, at least in Skinner’s native U.K.
where he is a working class hero for a generation who have watched the tracksuit go from a lightning rod for snobs to a highly-coveted and expensive piece of
Read more on thefader.com