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Mike Skinner goes all rap Sinatra and does it his way with his retirement gig
Saturday, 05 March 2011
Mike Skinner: Is it really the end of the road for the pop pioneer?
Grown men with bulging muscles and tattoos were crying in Brixton last night. And not just the man at the front who got unexpectedly kicked when Mike Skinner decided to go crowd-surfing. It was Skinner's very last gig before he pursues film-making, novels or roadsweeping, depending which interview you believe, so could he finish with a bang?
Grown men with bulging muscles and tattoos were crying in Brixton last night. And not just the man at the front who got unexpectedly kicked when Mike Skinner decided to go crowd-surfing. It was Skinner's very last gig before he pursues film-making, novels or roadsweeping, depending which interview you believe, so could he finish with a bang?
Skinner certainly knows how to connect. Quite literally, when someone grabbed his foot and he kicked them
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