{"id":57467,"date":"2024-09-17T12:38:49","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T08:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=57467"},"modified":"2024-09-17T12:41:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T08:41:02","slug":"the-streets","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/the-streets\/","title":{"rendered":"The Streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The era-defining British rap artist Mike Skinner makes his Dubai debut with his band (also called The Streets). He&#8217;s been quiet for a while, mostly DJing and working on a film that he largely wrote and directed himself (<em>The Darker the Shadow the Brighter the Light<\/em>, released in 2023 with an album of the same name). But now it looks like he&#8217;s getting back to what he does best: there may be some of the hits from <em>Original Pirate Material<\/em> and <em>A Grand Don&#8217;t Come for Free<\/em> from the early 2000s, but he&#8217;s been talking about moving on \u2013 &#8220;I know people like Liam [Gallagher] and Dizzee [Rascal] have done the anniversary thing, but I don\u2019t really need the money and I think for your own sanity you have to at least pretend that you\u2019re doing things that are important right now &#8230;&#8221; \u2013 and we&#8217;re expecting new material. The <em>Darker the Shadow<\/em> album is full of smooth grooves and wryly observed lyrical passages, inventive as ever and based around his signature storytelling; his latest, released in June, is a compilation for fabric titled <a href=\"https:\/\/store.fabriclondon.com\/products\/fabric-presents-the-streets-1?srsltid=AfmBOoqT6XhzVGSpQtfXdIPU1pDfI33o2Wa8HlYSMOmy5Lyz6ilygH5n\"><em>fabric presents The Streets <\/em><\/a>(&#8220;I\u2019ve spent many nights wasted but not wasted any nights in fabric over the years&#8221;) that includes four new tracks credited to The Streets and another three as Mike Skinner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The era-defining British rap artist Mike Skinner makes his Dubai debut with his band (also called The Streets). He&#8217;s been quiet for a while, mostly DJing and working on a film that he largely wrote and directed himself (The Darker <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/the-streets\/\" title=\"The Streets\"> [&#8230; more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57468,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[236],"class_list":["post-57467","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","tribe_events_cat-gig","cat_gig"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/57467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/57467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57467"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=57467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}