Bookmarks: Chris Moyles

A counterweight to the prevailing view of Chris Moyles and daytime Radio One, from the surprising corner of Chris TT writing in the Morning Star:

I'm surrounded by the sort of music makers for whom play on daytime Radio 1 is a rare occurrence. For some of us it's a major ambition to cross into that kind of mainstream marketplace, while for others it's of no interest as we ply our trade entirely on specialist shows or eschew pop radio altogether.

Either way we should be the last people undervaluing what these shows do, because we ought to understand how easy it is to slip up in live work and how exhausting that kind of extended performance is.

Chris TT tours out

Chris TT has updated his list of coming dates with the addition of some sets in support of Broken Family Band. This is the diary, then:

10 October London Flowerpot Lexapalooza Lite (raising money for Breast Cancer Campaign)

SUPPORTING BROKEN FAMILY BAND
21 London The Garage
22 Sheffield Academy 2
23 Liverpool Academy 2

SOLO SHOWS
24 Cardiff Swn Festival 2009
25 Oxford Jericho Tavern
26 Aberdeen The Tunnels
27 Glasgow Nice N Sleazy
28 London Flowerpot
30 Cheltenham Walk The Line 09

14 November London Brixton Academy Jamm – with Carter USM (full band show)
21 Brighton West Hill Hall

Chris TT takes tour

Chris TT has just announced a slew of March tour dates, taking in Ireland, the Isle Of Man and some of the drier parts of the US:

5 Derry Masons (solo)
6 Belfast Auntie Annies (solo)
7 Douglas, Isle Of Man
8 Port Erin, Isle Of Man
14 San Diego, The Habitat
15 San Francisco, Hotel Utah
18-22 SXSW 2009 in Austin Texas
21 Austin, Stephen F’s
23 Phoenix, Yucca Tap Room
24 Tucson, Dry River
27 Santa Barbara, Muddy Waters
28/29 Los Angeles, venue tbc (with Learning Music)

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TT on tour

If you enjoyed our Chris TT video extravaganza at the weekend - we say "ours", like we did anything more elaborate in the creation of it than pasting some embed codes - you'll be delighted to hear that there's a new single and a massive tour about to happen. We Are The King Of England is out on October 27th; the tour dates are coming near you. If you're anywhere in the UK or Ireland. Or Italy:

OCTOBER
19 Snafu, Aberdeen 7pm £5
21The Cockpit, Leeds 7pm £8
22 The Duchess, York 7.30pm £8
23 Oran Moor, Glasgow 7.30pm £8
24 Academy 3, Manchester 8pm £8.50
25 The Barfly, Birmingham 7.30pm £8
26 The Phoenix Arts, Exeter 8pm £8
27 Wedgewood Rooms, Ports 8pm £8
28 The Ansom Rooms, Bristol 8pm £9
29 The Scala, London 7.30pm £12.50
30 Tower Arts, Winchester 8pm £8
31 The Rescue Rooms, Notts 7pm £8
NOVEMBER
2 The Barfly, Liverpool 7.30pm £8
3 Roisin Dubh, Galway 8pm €10
4 Cypress Avenue, Cork 8pm €8
5 Auntie Annies, Belfast 8pm €6
6 Crawdaddy, Dublin 8pm €14
26 Forli Diagonal, Italy Bologna (Italy)
27 Fucecchio Limonaia, Firenze (Italy)
28 Recanati Extra Carrara (Italy)
29 Rome Blackout) Rome (Italy)

Chris TT weekend: Drink Beer

From Blissfields 2005, something for those of you about to head out on a Saturday night:



[Part of the Chris TT weekend]

Chris TT weekend: The English Earth

This is part-travelogue, actually, as it's recorded live in the Joshua Tree National Park, California:



[Part of the Chris TT weekend]

Chris TT weekend: Preaching to the converted

This from the launch day of Phoenix FM, in Brentwood, Essex:



[Part of the Chris TT weekend]

Chris TT weekend: We Are The King Of England

The grammar-fit inducing single from Chris TT's Capital album:



[Part of Chris TT weekend]

Embed and breakfast man: Chris TT

Celebrating an excellent live session on Marc Riley's 6Music show this week, here's a minicelebration of Chris TT's music.

Chris - who also moonlights as an arts writer for the Morning Star - has been releasing music for almost a decade now; his name is not a homage to motorcycle racing but a contraction of the stage name that his grandfather adopted when he was kicked out of the family for following an acting career.

Let's start with Blissfields, 2008, and a performance of Sellotape:



Chris TT on the web
Chris TT's Blognostic blog
Official site
MySpace
Last FM
NME Microsite
Wikipedia

Buy
Capital - released in March this year
9 Red Songs
London Is Sinking
Eminem Is Gay - ultra-rare seminal single

More videos to follow
We Are The King Of England
Preaching To The Converted live at the opening of Phoenix FM
The English Earth live in the Joshua Tree National Park
Drink Beer