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What The Press Is Saying About Capital:
"As grandiose as The Killers, the suave 'This Gun' and punky 'King Of England' spit hummable fire, while closer '4am' elegantly distils everything that already passed."
JOHN AIZLEWOOD, Q MAGAZINE (****)
"Richly layered both musically and lyrically, songs spin between vitriolic anger, witty self-deprecation and arch political condemnation. Like Kerouac and Wylie, T-T understands what is subversive about love. We should cherish such poets."
ALISTAIR FITCHETT, PLAN B MAGAZINE
"Extraordinary. A terrifying and thrilling experience... as a theme, violence is less an undercurrent and more a seething torrent. Capital's London pulsates with unease."
JAMES WALSH, MORNING STAR
"Another winner. One of the finest and most consistent songwriters this country has seen this century."
THISISMUSIC.COM
For booking please contact Joanna Ashmore at ITB
For management or licensing inquiries please contact Stephen Ewashkiw at Blaim Media
English songwriter. So far: 4 full-length albums, 2 mini-lps, a pile of 7" singles/eps and a live cd. Latest is 9 Red Songs folkprotest mini-lp (2005) and This Gun Is Not A Gun EP (2007). Fifth album Capital is finished and scheduled for release in Feb 2008, by Xtra Mile Recordings.
Lives in Brighton on the UK south coast.
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/29/2005
Band Website: christt.com
Band Members: Chris sings and plays instruments. Other nutsacks join up whenever, wherever. Current live ensemble The Hoodrats (though they wanted to be called The Sex Ambassadors) includes: Ben Murray (drums), Johny Lamb (bass) and Jenny Macro (guitars).

Influences: Anthony Gormley, Rifa Bhunnoo, June Tabor, Sideshow Mel, Hayao Miyazaki, 'What Am I Doing Here?' and 'Songlines' by Bruce Chatwin, Richard Brautigan, Charles Darwin, Richard Dawkins, Haruki Murakami, Ralph Ellison, Banksy, Mayer Hillman, Jeremy Corbyn MP, Mycroft Holmes, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, William Melvin Hicks, cetirizine dihydrochloride, C.J. Cregg, 'Christmas At The Zoo' by Flaming Lips, Prokofiev's 'Peter And The Wolf', 'Deschooling Society' by Ivan Illich, Robert Fisk, Magoo, Christina Rossetti, Ira Kaplan, Gustav Mahler, Winnie The Pooh, Dr Gregory House, Arthur C. Clarke, Ursula K. Le Guin, 'London Orbital' by Iain Sinclair, Diego & Frida, Monmouth Coffee (thankyou Sarge), Stephen Fry, Elizabeth Fry, the Natural History Museum, Will Self, Will Geer, Daisy Eel (from 'Secret Water'), 'Silent Running', Regis Debray, J.G. Ballard, Mary Sickert, The Isle Of Man & The Calf Of Man, 'Leon', Terre A Terre.
Sounds Like: cocaine wrapped in silk

Record Label: Xtra Mile Recordings
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

jury service blog

OK, here it is reprinted. The links don't work though - it's a bit better athttp://blognostic.wordpress.comIt's just music.Charlie ParkerNever go with a hippy to a second location.Jack DonaghyThree ep...
Posted by Chris T-T on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:00:00 PST

Culture Show.... oh god.

Quick preamble because it's a red letter day: Monmouth Coffee has finally reached Brighton, albeit in a small way. Coffee@33, so fresh on Trafalgar Street they don't have a business card or website ye...
Posted by Chris T-T on Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:32:00 PST

Matts blog & kids let down by ETS

Repost of latest blog from http://blognostic.wordpress.com/(some links missing, it's better in the original!)One of Rifa's friends, Matt, is an IT guy in the Sussex area. I've not met him but he's alw...
Posted by Chris T-T on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:19:00 PST

euch

At 2000 Trees Festival, Manx Stef and I had lunch with a bunch of Gloucestershire guys. Inevitably conversation slid its way around to last year's floods. The issue the lads wanted to make clear was h...
Posted by Chris T-T on Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:24:00 PST

new tour blog: tour-itis pt 1

I've just put this blog up on blognostic.wordpress.com - which has proper links and stuff from some of the references.We've parked the van at Bristol Temple Meads railway station and we're hanging out...
Posted by Chris T-T on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 03:00:00 PST

the meat trade

Having a fun time on tour, to the extent that me and Thomas have vaguely talked about taking it to the USA in autumn - now that would be wicked. So far on this tour I've seen 9 lizards of one kind or ...
Posted by Chris T-T on Thu, 29 May 2008 11:29:00 PST

The Lizards, The Scientologist and Marc Riley

funky shit reposted from http://blognostic.wordpress.com ...... (the original has links).Me and Tom White jump in the Electric Soft Parade van (a well customised and lived-in Merc sprinter that steers...
Posted by Chris T-T on Fri, 23 May 2008 08:13:00 PST

post holiday ramble

Now I really know I'm back in the UK: nothing works. Virgin Broadband died for 12 hours last night, leaving half of Brightonia (the half daft enough to have switched onto their lamentable service) wit...
Posted by Chris T-T on Wed, 14 May 2008 05:44:00 PST

Bizzle vs. Kezzle - this is what you get.

This morning it sounds increasingly like they've rolled out of the suburbs and taken back the London Mayoralcy from Red Ken, placing it in the unsavoury inky-pinky hands of Boris. Yup, he's a funny gu...
Posted by Chris T-T on Fri, 02 May 2008 04:40:00 PST

tour diary 4 - white light white heat

I'm back on the road unexpectedly: a few days ago Frank Turner's keyboard player Ciara had to quit his tour just before the end, to go join The Kooks, so now I'm filling in on piano and organ and doin...
Posted by Chris T-T on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 08:48:00 PST