Bristol Sounds announces first two headliners for next yearThe Streets star Mike Skinner, who had multiple hits in the early noughties, is set to visit Plymouth as his film premieres in Everyman Cinemas across the UK.The Streets star Mike Skinner(Image: Publicity Picture)

It was the album that redefined the UK rap and pop scene and now, 22 years after it was released, The Streets are to perform their iconic album A Grand Don’t Come For Free in full for the first time. And they are going to do this on next summer’s tour will be at the Lloyds Amphitheatre in Bristol, as part of the Bristol Sounds series.

The tour kicks off in February and by the end of June it will be rolling into the city centre in Bristol. The Bristol Sounds series runs in the week of the Glastonbury Festival, and provides an alternative to Glastonbury without the mud or lack of a bus home again.

The Streets are playing on the Saturday night as headliners, with all the hits from that second album from the genius of Mike Skinner, including Dry Your Eyes and Fit But You Know It.

Bristol Sounds has also announced the Friday headliner will be seminal 80s electro-pop band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.

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“A Grand Don’t Come For Free’ was a moment in time – for me, and for everyone who grew up with it,” said The Streets’ Mike Skinner. “I wrote it as a story from beginning to end, even studying screenwriting to shape it and without the faintest idea how people would react.

“We’ve been looking for something bold to do with the live show, and we landed here: some tracks have never been played live, others haven’t surfaced in years.

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“It’s a new challenge to bring the whole journey to life on stage, but I have an incredible band and we always give everything every night. So I’m certain we’ll make finding out what happened to that thousand quid a party every night,” he added.

OMD and The Streets headlining the Friday and Saturday night of next year’s Bristol Sounds follows an eclectic mix of music that took to the temporary stage at the amphitheatre in the summer sun of June 2025 – with everyone from Goldie Lookin Chain to Olly Murs playing this year.

Tickets for next year’s Bristol Sounds go on sale next week, from October 17.