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The retirement is over, and a new tour, The Darker The Shadow The Brighter The Light has been announced for 2018.
Mike Skinner announced he was retiring his band The Streets back in 2011, following the release of 2011's Computers And Blues, and in the years since he's reinvented himself as a producer, director and DJ, throwing his own Tonga parties across the world.
But as reported on RedBull.com, in recent months he has been quietly releasing new tracks to Spotify under the name The Darker The Shadow The Brighter The Light – and a run of six new tour dates taking place next April suggests that rather than a new project, this was – gasp! – The Streets all along. Listen to a playlist of the tracks below.
In a statement, Skinner announced:
“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.
I’ve missed tour buses very much, which is the least of the reasons why I have decided to tour The Streets again
“With my Tonga parties, the new rap and grime MCs 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”.
The dates run as follows:
- Birmingham O2 Academy (April 19)
- Glasgow O2 (April 20)
- Manchester O2 Apollo (April 21)
- Leeds O2 Academy (April 23)
- London O2 Academy Brixton (April 25)
- London O2 Academy Brixton (April 26)
Tickets go onstale this Friday, October 13.
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