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A couple of early Capital reviews:

The turbo-charged ‘A-Z’ is as grandiose as The Killers, the suave ‘This Gun’ and the punky ‘King Of England’ spit hummable fire, while closer ‘4am’ elegantly distils everything that has already passed.

John Aizlewood - Q Magazine (4 stars)

Immeasurably denser and harsher than 2005’s inch perfect 9 Red Songs but none the worse for that. Richly layered both musically and lyrically, the songs spin between vitriolic anger, witty self deprecation and arch political condemnation. Like Kerouac and Wylie, Chris T-T understands what is subversive about love aand knows that God is in the detail of everyday life. We should cherish such poets of 21st century urbanity.

Alistair Fitchett - Plan B

Chris has also posted his artwork for Capital on his blog. He seems to have made graff pics of London icons on a white wall. Nice.

The closing track from Capital, ‘4am’ is Q Magazine’s online Q50 selection this month. The song features Razorlight’s Andy Burrows drumming. Please go here to listen and tell them how much you love it by giving us a high star rating. Thankyou!

There’s a competition running to win a pair of tickets for Chris T-T’s BBC6Music headline show at the Borderline in London tomorrow night (Thursday 31st).

Go here to enter.

London gig alert: Chris will play a one-off headline at The Borderline on this coming Thursday 31st January, for BBC 6Music and Club Fandango. There’s support from superb NYC folkie Dawn Landes and Anya Marina.

Details and tickets available here.

February’s confirmed USA west coast tour dates are up on the Gigs page now. Chris will be playing around California with punk/folk songwriter and label-mate Frank Turner.

Sending best wishes for a speedy recovery to Phil Sumner, brass player on ‘Capital’. Phil injured himself diving offstage this week, while on tour with British Sea Power.

We’ve confirmed two weeks of T-T solo shows on the US west coast for mid February. We’ll put the dates up in the next couple of days, so check the Gigs page for details. Our lovely webmaster Stef has also moved christt.com onto Wordpress. We’ll be learning the system and tweaking details over the next few weeks, so this is sort of a beta. Please get in touch or feel free to comment if you spot anything.

Happy new year. Many congratulations Flea and Al on the birth of Isobel.

Here we go then, 2008, it’s going to be crazy…

Wishing you a very merry Christmas and thank-you for your support in 2007. T-T has put up some exclusive festive recordings on his Myspace, which are free to download.

Christmas time, mistletoe and wine. T-T’s final live commitment this year is a DJ set at tonight’s Xtra Mile / Big Scary Monsters Christmas Party at the Luminaire but that’s now sold out.

Chris has donated an exclusive something to Maps Magazine for their advent calendar. We don’t know what day Chris will be but check it out here, there’s lovely music to download for free.

Update! You can download the exclusive track here.

We also have a fantastic exclusive Christmas present to give you next week, so keep watching this space for details, you won’t regret it.