Birmingham garage project stories

Mike Skinner emerged from the Birmingham garage scene, a musician poet who captivated a generation of fans with his wit and honesty. Now he writes about those years – the binges, the feuds, the need for authenticity that would end in illness and finish the Streets• The first album I ever owned was Vanilla Ice's To The Extreme, which I got for Christmas when I was 11. I'm quite proud of the fact that I listened to it once and thought: "That first song is a tune, but the rest of this is r...

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