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\*\*WINNER OF THE NME BEST BOOK AWARD\*\* 'This book is going to try and get as close as possible to the full story of what informed the noise of The Streets. Obviously that's something I should be fairly well-qualified to know about, and I'm going to be as honest as the publisher's lawyers will allow.' With the 2001 release of The Streets' debut single 'Has It Come To This?' the landscape of British popular music changed forever. No longer did homegrown rappers have to anxiously defer to transatlantic influences. Mike Skinner's witty, self-deprecating sagas of late-night kebab shops and skunk-fuelled Playstation sessions showed how much you could achieve simply by speaking in your own voice. In this thoroughly modern memoir, the man the Guardian once dubbed 'half Dostoevsky ...half Samuel Pepys' tells a freewheeling, funny and fearlessly honest tale of Birmingham and London, ecstasy and epilepsy, Twitter-fear and Spectrum joysticks, spread-betting and growing up. He writes of his musical inspirations, role models and rivals, the craft of songwriting and reflects on the successes and failures of the decade-long journey of The Streets. Mike Skinner - The Creative Force Behind The Streets - Has Won Worldwide Acclaim For Fusing Home-grown Hip-hop With The Proud British Tradition Of Observational Songwriting. In This Book Mike Shares Personal Details Of His Upbringing In Birmingham, As Well As Discussing Life In The Showbiz Fast Lane. I.the Inciting Event: Original Pirate Material -- 1.i'm Not A Very Good Rapper -- 2.there Was Something About Taking Stuff Apart And Putting It Back Together ... -- 3.i Always Wanted To Do Music -- It Was Either That Or Death -- 4.i Don't Think They Thought The Music Industry Had Any Kind Of Commercial Future -- 5.now There Was An Imbalance Of Achievement -- Ii.climax: A Grand Don't Come For Free -- 6.essentially, They Were Hipsters -- 7.i Took Their Favourable Reaction As Evidence Of My Own Powerlessness -- 8.effectively, What We Did Was Slap My Personality On Top Of His Database -- 9.for Me It Was The Musical Equivalent Of The Moment In Being John Malkovich When John Malkovich Goes Through The Portal Into His Own Brain -- 10.i Worked At Granada Services, Frankley -- Iii.crisis: The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living -- 11.we Bought Mum And Dad A Place In Barnet 12.i Know Plenty Of People Who Smoked Brown And Were Fine -- I Suppose I'm One Of Them -- 13.i Was Fully Living The Dream -- 14.the Final Amount As Far As Warner's Were Concerned Was Probably Nearer A Million -- 15.with Anti-heroes -- Film Noir-type People -- You Think Of Them As Being Bad Guys, But They're Always Better Than Their Surroundings -- Iv.progressive Complications: Everything Is Borrowed -- 16.i Was Never Anything More Than An Outpatient -- 17.tim Ideally Wants To Be Managing Bruce Springsteen Or The Beatles -- 18.product Placement Is Just An Extension Of A Visual Metaphor -- 19.the Donk Of Diminishing Returns -- 20.chris And Gwyneth Were The Exception That Proved The Rule -- V.resolution: Computers And Blues -- 21.if They Stick With Me Till Album Number Five, They Know They Can Get A Greater Hits Out Of It -- 22.then The Streets Was Going To Come To An End -- 23.i Hope I'm Not Going To Sound Like Alanis Morissette If I Describe This As Ironic 24.you Don't Really Have To Stay In Touch, Because They're Going To Be There Anyway -- 25.the Cliff-hanger At The End Of The First One Was That Trevor Eve Dies, Although It Turns Out He's Not Really Dead. By Mike Skinner ; With Ben Thompson. Mike Skinner's witty, sagas of late-night kebab shops and skunk-fuelled Playstation sessions showed how much you could achieve simply by speaking in your own voice. In this book, the author writes of his musical inspirations, role models and rivals, the craft of songwriting and reflects on the successes and failures of the decade-long journey