# The Streets concert 2026. Let&\#8217;s Be Having You in Norwich

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Let's Be Having You: Shooting The Streets at Rock N Roll Circus Norwich I have photographed a lot of headline sets at Earlham Park. Friday 21 August 2026 was the first time the main prop was a bus shelter. The Streets closed night 2 of Rock N Roll Circus Norwich, and they did it by playing A Grand Don't Come For Free from the first track to the last, in order, the way Mike Skinner wrote it in 2004. Twenty two years on and still the first time that record has been performed in full on a UK stage outside this run of shows. If you grew up with that album you already know why that matters. If you did not, a Norfolk field singing Dry Your Eyes back at the stage explains it in about ninety seconds. The bus stop on stage, and the best gift a photographer gets all summer Centre stage, life size, straight off the album cover: a green bus shelter, perspex panels, a timetable map behind glass, the lot. Mike Skinner spends the opening of the show inside it and keeps coming back to it all night. Song three, he writes on it... Sounds the whole track with his back to the crowds and the camera while he sings. With a closed stage and even working as official event photographer and videographer, we couldnt get past the first three and really, it could've been the first two only, but the results of the writing is what everybody wanted to see. Let's be having you, in marker pen He also writes on the panels as the set goes on, a different line in every city, so by the end the glass is covered in scrawl. In Dublin he asked for a spice bag. In Norwich he wrote Let's be having you. If you are from round here you have already made the noise. If you are not, it doen;t need explaining because it's an icoinion backstory that the whole of England should or did know about. But I'll explain anyway. 28 February 2005, Carrow Road. Norwich two goals up against Manchester City and pegged back to 2-2 by the break. At half time Delia Smith, joint majority shareholder, celebrity chef, national treasure, walked out onto the pitch with a microphone, told a silent ground she needed a twelfth man, asked where they were, and finished with those four words... Let's be having you! Norwich lost 3-2 and went down at the end of the season. Half the country decided she must have been on the sherry. She has always said it was passion, and that in this country the two get confused. Twenty odd years on it is still shown every time Norwich are on the telly, still shouted at closing time on Prince of Wales Road, still on t shirts and pint glasses and the side of half the vans in Norfolk. So four words in marker pen on a bit of perspex is not a polite nod to the locals. It is a card played properly. Skinner has spent his whole career writing about small, specific, local things and taking them seriously, which is exactly what Delia on that pitch was. He picked the one line in this city that belongs to everybody in the field, and the field went up. From where I stand, that set is a proper gift. Most headline sets give you a black stage, a rig full of backlight, and your job is to find a face in it. This one gives you a story you can put in the frame. The green ironwork gives you strong verticals to build around, the perspex bounces the LED wall back at you, and the roof line cuts the sky in half. Mike Skinner at the bus stop, Earlham Park, Friday 21 August 2026. Photography by Blanc Creative. Head to toe Stone Island, and why the fans love him for it Skinner walked out in black Stone Island, top and bottom, compass badge on the sleeve. No costume, no stage clobber, nothing you would not see on the terraces at Carrow Road on a Saturday. That is not an accident and the crowd know it. Stone Island is casual culture, football culture, a badge that says something about where you are from and who you go out with. Skinner has always written about the same people who wear it: the taxi rank, the offy, the mate who owes you money, the argument outside the pub. So when he stands there dressed like the front four rows, t

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