The Streets: Bowery Ballroom, New York City
Will Hermes, The Village Voice, 29 October 2002
TALK ABOUT BRINGING coal to Newcastle. Sunday's New York debut of U.K. MC The Streets (a/k/a Mike "A Day in the Life of a Geezer" Skinner) drew a full house of Anglophiles, Brit expats, and hip-hop rubberneckers to the Bowery Ballroom for a supremely dubious spectacle: a band-backed set by a pale Birmingham rapper in Jigga's own backyard.
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