Mike Skinner Of The Streets On Making His First Film
Mike Skinner of The Streets has spoken about making his first feature film, The Darker The Shadow, The Brighter The Light in a new interview with The Observer.
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“With music,” Skinner said, “I could say tomorrow: ‘I’m going to make a prog rock album and it’s going to have incredible keyboard playing on it, and I’ll sing falsetto, and the whole thing is going to be drenched in reverb and it’s going to be a concept album.’ That would be no more difficult than me saying: ‘I’m going to do Original Pirate Material all over again.’ But it’s not the same with film.”
When asked if he appreciated how much of a challenge making a film would be he reflected, “I dunno. I thought: ‘How hard can it be?’ You know, I’ve done millions of music videos. I do music videos every week. So I was like: ‘It’s what, 90 minutes? That’s 30 music videos. We could do that, rather than spending another two years waiting for the money.’ But it’s not like 30 music videos. Because with music videos, you’re not beholden to a story that has to make sense. You just film a load of stuff and pick out what looks the nicest and the music does the rest. You can’t do that with a film.”
Skinner went on to talk about how he sees the film now, “When you get to the end of a project, you’ve been inside it so long, it just becomes noise. And that’s when you need to trust yourself, you learn that through having looked back on so many other things you’ve made. You go from this completely open state of, like, anything is possible, I can change anything, to… It’s done. I have to stand by this.”
The Streets forthcoming live dates
October
22 – Belfast @ The Telegraph Building
23 – Dublin @ 3Olympia Theatre
24 – Dublin @ 3Olympia Theatre
26 – Nottingham @ Rock City
27 – Manchester @ O2 Victoria Warehouse
28 – Sheffield @ O2 Academy
November
2 – Glasgow @ O2 Academy
3 – Newcastle @ O2 City Hall
4 – Leeds @ O2 Academy
9 – Liverpool @ The Mountford Hall
10 – Birmingham @ O2 Academy
13 – Norwich @ The Nick Rayns LCR
14 – Bournemouth @ O2 Academy
16 – London @ Alexandra Palace