Mike Skinner

When The Streets first released that, I don't really think there was anything like that that had been done.

And also, I think the honesty of Mike Skinner's lyrics and the down-to-earth, relatable topics in the album are... amazing and the beats are amazing the music is classic obviously Garage is deadly but there's a big group of us in Dundalk that were friends when we were younger and we'd all be listening to this sort of stuff and Jungle music and like Garage and all that and I think I think it's just a very important album and it's something that I listened to on repeat for a very long time so I couldn't really not include it

Okay, also The Prodigy, Experience.

Yeah, another album that I think is similar in the fact that it really, like for electronic music, I think it was a really groundbreaking album.

And my father worked with homeless people in Chester Street, which I ended up being a homeless person in Chester Street.

So I've got a reasonable idea of how the streets run and how everything works around here.

And it really tells a lot in the story of my personal story and the stories of so many other people around here.

I would say I've got a couple of books published at the moment over the last four years since I got myself clean.

Another one in Iran has gone and begun.

All these wars keep going on and begin.

It's cleaving the streets.

It's unachievable.

Don't Mug Yourself.

Now, you were hanging out with Mike Skinner.

As you do, yeah.

Um, [laughs] well, the context of that is Fred, again, his like...

Yeah

... dancing and having a great time until, like, our, our 10-minute moment.

But one of the nights, Mike Skinner came out, and it was just like, it was magical 'cause it was Mike Skinner and JME at the same time.

Ridiculous.

But Woody's got a really eclectic taste in music.

So, like, we went to see The Streets live the other week.

He loves The

Streets.

I'm not interested in what you think of Coldplay.

If you ever see

Michael in the streets...

Don't tell him.

Um, there was a dude named, um, Morgan Nicholls, who was the utility guy who did synth and keyboards and shit, and sometimes he would pick up a guitar.

He's in an English band called The Senseless Things, and he also has done live with, live stuff with The Gorillaz and The Streets and Lily Allen.

So he's, like, he's a pretty well-known road backup musician, and then he also writes and produces.

Yeah, he's like a super professional gun for hire.

I agree with NME who said in their review, your least favourite pop star's gone electro and it's Whisper It Good.

He's hit on a fun, frantic, piss-taking mixtape of crystalline 80s electro pop, Skinner-derived wrap-ups...

Mike Skinner from the streets, I think they're referring to there, and Lazy Skank Pop.

And I agree with the Observer's reviewer, who said, proper fans of Robbie's, those who spark up lighters for Angels will beg to differ, but some of us would rather listen to Bongo Bong on endless repeat than ever hear Angels again.