BRIGHTON VALLEY SERIES PRESENTS: THE STREETS
with
KOJEY RADICAL and BILLY NOMATES
plus special guest DJs TBA
FIRDAY 24th MAY 2024 | EAST BRIGHTON PARK
TICKETS ON GENERAL SALE FRIDAY 08th DECEMBER 2023 VIA
www.brighton-valley-series.co.uk
WHO: The Streets
WHAT: Brighton Valley Series
WHERE: East Brighton Park
WHEN: Friday 24th May 2024
Today, Brighton Valley Series announce that, legendry act The Streets will be taking to the stage at East Brighton Park, with support from special guests Kojey Radical and Billy Nomates as part of their 2024 Summer Series.
The Streets turn the mundane into the extraordinary. The oft-repetitive, unspectacular sludge of everyday life is zoomed into with a 4K camera by frontman Mike Skinner, long a legend of UK hip-hop who has traced UK garage, drum & bass, house, bassline, grime and rap to develop a firm reputation as a working-class hero, speaking to society’s fringes. Through The Streets’ music, spanning five albums and one mixtape, life’s nuances are assessed and reimagined by cutting commentary from the perspective of an everyman. From hazy nights in the club, waking up in a drunken stupor, picking up Jobseeker’s Allowance, unrequited love and everything in-between, every corner is inspected with finesse. It has resulted in quite the unique lane for Skinner who, despite his last released album being in 2011, has been plotting a move wholly more substantial.
Now, the light is shining, literally and figuratively, on his newest venture, his feature-length film The Darker The Shadow The Brighter The Light, and album of the same name. An excursion seven years in the making, Skinner finds himself in slightly unfamiliar territory, having directed, produced, written, edited, scored and starred in the film, pushing him to his creative limits as he placed a bet on himself to deliver. “Before COVID-19 hit,” he explains, “we wanted to get someone to give us £3 million for the film. But it became very clear that wasn’t going to happen, so I decided to fund it myself. Or it would be another 10 years before it happened. I realised, whether or not you’re going to get money, that the responsibility laid with me to make the film happen. That was quite a lonely moment and I definitely acted like I embraced it. But I just felt really scared all the time. It’s been such a huge undertaking and because I’ve been funding it myself, you can’t really do it all in one go. But the more help I got, the more I was convinced it was going to happen.”
Through sheer will, Skinner has realised his ambition for The Darker The Shadow The Brighter The Light, taking what was a finished album and breathing an entire film into it. For one of the UK’s most legendary and consistent voices of the 21st century, a new creative level has been reached, on his own terms. “I’m just completely over the moon that I just did it,” he says. “I don’t think anyone’s really made a film about nightclubs and DJs that’s really shown in the way I experienced it. Nightclubs are always the glamorous bit of any films, whereas I kind of wanted to see the fun but also the sort of like, “we’re just in a dusty room with a sofa with writing on the wall.” That’s how I know them, and the album doesn’t exist without it.”
Brighton Valley Series is a series of summer concerts based in East Brighton Park, Brighton. The stunning venue surrounded by beautiful hills and woodland will play host to some of the biggest names in pop, rock, dance and everything in between.
Brighton Valley Series presents The Streets
with special Kojey Radical and Billy Nomates.
Tickets on general sale Friday 08th December via
www.brighton-valley-series.co.uk
