The South Bank Show: The Streets
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The Streets aka Mike Skinner has joined a select group of music acts profiled by The South Bank Show for their contribution to popular culture, including Sir Paul McCartney, Iggy Pop and The Smiths.
The programme (broadcast on Sunday 21 September) followed the 29-year-old as he made his fourth album Everything Is Borrowed, showing his talent for capturing in music what it is like to be young, bored and bothered in the city.
Skinner still records all of his albums in his bedroom at home. However, for this album he also travelled to Prague, where the film followed him working and recording with a symphony orchestra.
Skinner still records all of his albums in his bedroom at home. However, for this album he also travelled to Prague, where the film followed him working and recording with a symphony orchestra.
Click on the image above to watch itv.com's exclusive behind-the-scenes video of the making of the show.
See our interview with Skinner as well as rare glimpses of the reluctant star off-duty - whether perfecting his performances or simply mucking about with his band.
Skinner has always described himself as not working class or middle class but after the house-building company “Barratt class”. His career break came in 2001 with the single Has It Come To This? and his Mercury Prize nominated debut album, Original Pirate Material.
His skill for wry lyrical observations has ranged from the comedy hit Fit But U Know It to the heartfelt break-up track Dry Your Eyes and Never Went To Church, in which he laments the death of his dad.
