'Sheila' was re-released in support of the album and the B-side, 'Rawhide' featured Lily Allen on backing vocals. It reportedly got its name from the panic attacks that Jamie suffered when he was growing up. Panic Prevention was Jamie T's debut album. 'Calm Down Dearest' was released in January 2007, peaking at number nine, making it his first Top Ten hit. The track reached number 13 in the UK Singles charts. 'If You Got The Money' was released in October 2006. One of two videos made for 'Sheila' shows Bob Hoskins walking along the River Thames, miming along to the song. Jamie T's next single 'Sheila' (released in July 2006) also received a great deal of radio airtime, especially on the XFM station, as did 'If You Got The Money'.
Whiley made 'Back in the Game' her Pet Sound record, earning the track a huge amount of mainstream radio airplay. Jamie T's early career was also aided by another Radio 1 DJ, Jo Whiley. Lowe then gave another track, 'Back in the Game' the honour of being 'Hottest Record in the World'. The song was picked up by BBC Radio 1's Zane Lowe, who made the track his Single of the Week. Later on that year, he released another single, 'Salvador'. Music Career: Jamie T released his debut EP, Betty and the Selfish Sons on his own label, Pacemaker Records in 2006. As a child, he attended the Hall School in Wimbledon and Reed's school in Cobham, Surrey. He is signed to Virgin Records and has been compared to the likes of Joe Strummer, Billy Bragg and Mike Skinner of The Streets.Ĭhildhood: Jamie T was raised in the Wimbledon area of South London. returned in 2016 with his fourth long-player, Trick.Jamie T (born Jamie Treays, ) Jamie is an English singer and songwriter from London. single "Zombie." An EP, Magnolia Melancholia, followed one year later. In 2012, he appeared on Tim Timebomb's single "Wrongful Suspicion." The Carry on the Grudge album followed in 2014, and featured the Top 40 U.K. He released his third EP, The Man's Machine, during the latter part of 2009 and toured intermittently throughout 2010. Unfortunately, he had to cancel a planned worldwide tour due to laryngitis. It did his debut two slots better, peaking at number two in the British charts. After touring and festival slots during 20, he returned to the charts in mid-2009 with the single "Sticks 'n' Stones," a teaser for his second album, Kings & Queens, released in September. The single "Calm Down Dearest" reached number nine in the U.K. put together a full-band lineup for live gigs and released two more singles in 2006, "Sheila" and "If You've Got the Money," as he prepared his debut album, Panic Prevention, released in early 2007.
got an instant leg up when Damon Albarn chose him to remix the Gorillaz single "Kids with Guns." Signing to Gorillaz's label, Virgin, Jamie T. also started recording his own one-man-band home tracks, eventually debuting with the "Salvador" 7" single in 2004, followed by the Betty & the Selfish Sons EP, both on his own Pacemaker Records imprint.Īlongside gigs with increasingly hot London acts like the Mystery Jets, Jamie T. While playing solo bass-and-vocals gigs, Jamie T. first picked up the electric bass before a friend gifted him with a hand-me-down standup acoustic model.
Abandoning the guitar as too difficult to play while singing, Jamie T.
grew up in multicultural London, absorbing a variety of musical styles while attempting to create his own. Born Jamie Alexander Treays in Wimbledon in 1986, Jamie T. His clever pop sense is his own, however, and keeps the South Londoner from sounding like a mashup of his influences, which range from vintage Jamaican ska to the Beastie Boys, via Tina Turner and the Clash. comes across like the love child of the Streets' Mike Skinner and Badly Drawn Boy's Damon Gough. With his appealingly laid-back hip-hop vocal phrasing and an eclectic bedroom D.I.Y.
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