Mike Skinner: The Realist

  • Sam Davies

The Streets was never a solo project. Mike Skinner is often thought of as a one-man band: he started The Streets in the early 2000s and recorded his debut album, Original Pirate Material, in his bedroom in Birmingham, stuffing his wardrobe with duvets and using it as a vocal booth. Over the next decade, four more Streets albums were released, all of them written and produced by Skinner. Read in full: https://trenchtrenchtrench.com/features/mike-skinner-the-streets-interview