Pop: The Streets, Academy, Leeds

Mike Skinner's career follows the trajectory of a drunken night out - sharp and observant at the start, fuzzy and excessive in the middle (when he misfired with moans about fame and bad behaviour), and now going all philosophical on new album Everything Is Borrowed. His audience certainly understands the parallel, and Skinner knows it. "Has everybody had a good weekend?" he begins. By the time he starts rambling about how "boys are more physical ... they like to dance and shit", he's starting to...

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