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The Streets: Apollo, Manchester

Nick Hasted, The Independent, 18 May 2004

THE DEBUT ALBUM by Mike Skinner, a.k.a. The Streets, (Original Pirate Material) was a touching, thoughtful ode to all the aspects of modern Britain its media commentators don't comprehend: the boredom, tension and psychic wear of council estate life and weekend wildness.

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