We can argue around the edges all we like – and in doing so, wrongly talk up the complexities of our situation – but the reality is simple:

If you don’t already know, I’ve been recruited as singer for phenomenal radical rock’n’roll supergroup Thee Cee Cees… 

Over the weekend I gave a short, dense talk (no slides), for CMU’s DIY strand at The Great Escape Convention. I looked at first steps to recording for new music artists. This isn’t a transcript but here are the key points, from my notes. By necessity it’s a bit topline for the target audience but I hope it’s useful…

Here’s the playlist for Chris T-T’s Midnight Campfire show #37, first broadcast Wed 13 May 2015. It included my top five picks for the following weekend’s Great Escape festival in Brighton. I enjoyed this episode a lot and it was very fresh – mostly artists I’d never played before. HERE is the audio link and here’s the playlist…

Here’s show #36 of Chris T-T’s Midnight Campfire, first broadcast on Juice 107.2 FM on Wed 6 May 2015. It was a pre-election show, so the second hour is themed around election songs, which were tough to find – so there’s some odd, obscure choices. The first hour is cracking though. You can listen again HERE and the playlist is here:

Here’s the playlist for Chris T-T’s Midnight Campfire show #35, first broadcast on Wed 29 April 2015. You can listen online HERE. The show includes amazing new songs by Tom Robinson, Algiers and Lianne Le Havas, plus a Proclaimers double-shot and a couple of Saul Goodman-friendly tunes…