Panic Prevention - Jamie T

Next up on my Glastonbury album hunt is Jamie T's latest release which I'm waiting to be suggested, in the mean time I thought I'd check out the 2007 album instead first. I had never heard of this artist, can't say he's really made it outside of the UK much. It's easy to see why really. Although his mixture of acoustic guitar, electronic music and hip hop is quite inventive. The material is quite often a load of old rubbish, only held together due to its patterish nature which I actually find pretty irritating after a while. His accent is somewhere between cockney chav and annoying black boy wannabe yet somehow still manages to remind you of a poor ...  Read the complete review

Oh in a world where NME-prone indie bands consistently fill the airwaves with music that is a lot of the time merely the Smiths meets the Stone Roses, it's always nice to get something a little 'different'…oh and NME and massive fans of him. This something a little 'different' is Jamie T. The one-man band from London town. I first saw him live, after a recommendation from a friend, last March in a small venue in Nottingham…and twelve months on he can do no wrong. When I saw him that night, it was simply a scraggly looking 20-ish year old, sat on a stool with an electro-acoustic bass guitar, mesmerising an audience of no more than 100. Last month I saw him once ...  Read the complete review