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Chris T-T
12+ albums
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Chris T-T (born Christopher Thorpe-Tracey on16 September 1974) is an English singer/songwriter based in Brighton. He is now retired from the music business, In a 20-year career he released 10 studio albums, two live collections and a number of collaborations. As a singer-songwriter with a unique gift of capturing the subtleties of British life, he did not keep his opinions to himself. This articulation often resulted in audience members being offended, outraged or otherwise aghast. He received earfuls from angry old ladies in hunting villages, indie crowds in Essex and a few outraged liberals at the Leftfield stage during Glastonbury Festival. He must have been doing something right. After spending three years at Leeds University earning a degree in pop music, the inevitable move to London followed. He spent 1999 slogging at a day job, and recorded his first album during evenings and weekends on the cobbled-together not-exactly-state-of-the-art recording equipment in his bedroom. The result was Beatverse, released in 1999 on his own label, Wine Cellar. It sold fewer than 500 copies, but it taught him not be afraid of being opinionated and brutally honest in his songs. Snowstorm Records loved the album and offered to fund the next T-T release. The result was 2000’s Panic Attack at Sainsbury’s, a mixed bag of pop anthems (You Can Be Flirty), anti-establishment sing-alongs (Dreaming of Injured Popstars) and twisted love songs (Open Books, Exeat). Over the next few years, T-
