The Streets have announced that they will be reuniting for a greatest hits tour next year.
Mike Skinner, the bands frontman, shared details of a one-off UK tour set to take place in 2018. The upcoming tour has been named after a recent track from Skinner, ‘The Darker The Shadow The Brighter The Light’.
The band last toured back in 2011 in support of their fifth album, Computers and Blues. Skinner and co will reunite in April to perform tracks from their classic albums Original Pirate Material, A Grand Don’t Come For Free, and more.
Speaking about the announcement, Skinner says: “I’ve missed tour buses very much. Which is the least of the reasons why I have decided to tour The Streets again. The other thing I’ve missed is trying to think up what I’m going to say in the gap between the songs. 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”.
Tickets will go on sale this Friday (13th October) at 9 am here. Check out the full tour dates below.
20th April – Glasgow O2 Academy
21st April – Manchester O2 Apollo
23rd April – Leeds O2 Academy
25th April – London O2 Academy Brixton
26th April – London O2 Academy Brixton
