| Weak Become Heroes | |
| Cover: | Weak become heroes01.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | The Streets |
| Album: | Original Pirate Material |
| Genre: | UK garage, alternative hip hop |
| Length: | 5:33 |
| Label: | 679 |
| Prev Title: | Let's Push Things Forward |
| Prev Year: | 2002 |
| Next Title: | Don't Mug Yourself |
| Next Year: | 2002 |
"Weak Become Heroes" is a song by English rapper and producer Mike Skinner under the music project the Streets. It was released in July 2002 as the third single from their debut studio album, Original Pirate Material.
The song concerns Skinner's experiences of rave culture in the mid-1990s. He says:
Skinner also makes reference to the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, an act which was seen as curtailing the rights of people to host raves.
The character "European Bob" is described by Zadie Smith as an “archetypal figure for our generation” – a derelict raver-cum-sage akin to Peep Show’s Super Hans.[1]
The video was filmed in the Works Nightclub (later Hippodrome) in Kingston upon Thames, London, with some external shots outside the club in St James's Road in 2002. The club closed in July 2018 and was demolished to make way for luxury apartments.[2]