Chris T-T to tour in November & December with Franz Nicolay

The inspirational and prolific folk hero Chris T-T heads out on a far-reaching tour this month performing a variety of shows.

The majority of shows will be solo, performing songs from his extensive back catalogue spanning seven studio albums, including Capital and Love Is Not Rescue both released through Xtra Mile Recordings. For these dates Chris will be joined on tour by the exceptional accordion wielding Franz Nicolay, formally of The Hold Steady.

In between these dates Chris will play his own shows performing songs from his recent collection ‘Disobedience – Chris T-T Sings A.A Milne” an album of beautiful music set to poetry from the great writer.

All dates are as follows (all shows with Franz Nicolay unless otherwise stated)

NOVEMBER
15 Falmouth University - The Performance Centre (no Franz)
19 Hay-On-Wye – Crunch Festival 2011
20 Leeds University Family Concert Series (Chris T-T Sings A.A. Milne)
20 Middlesbrough The Olde Young Tea House
21 Birmingham The Actress & Bishop
22 Stoke On Trent Harry's Bar
23 Liverpool venue TBA
24 Cheltenham Slak
26 Exeter Cavern
27 Cardiff Promised Land
30 Hull Adelphi
DECEMBER
1 York City Screen Basement
2 Glasgow Old Hairdressers

4 Dundee - Book Yer Ane Fest V 2011
5 Edinburgh Banshee Labyrinth
6 Dunfermline PJ Molloys
7 Leeds The Well
8 Derby Victoria Inn
9 Southampton Bargate Castle
11 Reading Rising Sun Arts Centre (Ben Marwood's Christmas Party: Franz, Ben and Chris T-T)
12 London The Old Blue Last (FREE)
13 Oxford The Wheatsheaf
14 Nottingham The Maze
15 Bristol The Croft
18 Norwich Olive Anns
20 Brighton Friends Meeting House: Chris T-T Sings A.A.Milne At Christmas


A creative powerhouse, Chris is also starting work on a follow-up album. Titled ‘The Battle of Clarkson's Lighthouse‘, it is being recorded with his band The Hoodrats and culminates with Jeremy Clarkson being thrown in the Irish Sea! It will be released next year with more information to come.

Chris T-T - New EP & UK Headline Tour

Following the release of his seventh studio album ‘Love Is Not Rescue’ last year, national musical treasure Chris T-T releases the stunning EP ‘Words Fail Me’ on 11th April 2011 through Xtra Mile Recordings.

The closing track on ‘Love Is Not Rescue’, ‘Words Fail Me’ sees this lyric genius reflect on his career choices and depicts, in aching honesty, the creative process of writing the album, portraying personal crisis and self-doubt. Yet it’s a song of triumph and enlightenment with an upbeat tempo and a catchy hook – the perfect example of why Chris is a renowned and revered master of songwriting.

Already a favourite among the critics, both Tom Robinson and Andrew Collins have played the tracks on their 6Music shows, the latter also included ‘Love Is Not Rescue’ in his Top 10 Best Albums of 2010. Further praise has come from Radio 2 who over the past few weeks have played fellow album track, ‘Open & Shut’, and the traditional folk a capella number ‘M1 Song’

A creative powerhouse, Chris is also starting work on a follow-up album. Titled ‘The Battle of Clarkson's Lighthouse‘, it is being recorded with his band The Hoodrats and culminates with Jeremy Clarkson being thrown in the Irish Sea! It will be released later in the year with more information to come.

Chris will be heading out on a solo tour in May in support of the release. All dates are below.

UK HEADLINE TOUR
MAY
1 BURY ST EDMONDS Fringe 2011 at The St John's Centre (SOLO)
5 Copenhagen University Studenterhuset
6 Copenhagen Christiana Private Party
20 KINGSTON Upstage at the Cricketers (SOLO)
21 Milton Keynes Newport Pagnell Watershed
22 Borchester Ambridge Organics
23 CARDIFF 10 Feet Tall (SOLO)
25 Brighton The Albert (w/ Electric Soft Parade)
Thu 26 May CHELTENHAM Thirsty & Miserable at Slak (SOLO)
27 Bristol The Croft
Mon 30 May ABERDEEN Lost & Found at Cellar 35 (SOLO)
JUNE
1 Glasgow The 13th Note
2 Cambridge Portland Arms
25 Teesdale Club Cotherstone
JULY
1 Blissfields Festival

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Chris T-T - New Album / New Tour!

LOVE IS NOT RESCUE
New Album – New Tour!

Increasingly influential cult singer Chris T-T returns in spring 2010 with the release of his new album Love Is Not Rescue.

Released on 15 March 2010 through Xtra Mile Recordings, Love Is Not Rescue is T-T’s 7th studio album since 1999 and his second release for Xtra Mile. It was recorded in four days, primarily in rural Norfolk with Magoo’s Owen Turner (Bearsuit, Kaito) plus a session in Los Angeles with Gus Seyffert (Sia, Norah Jones, Flight Of The Conchords).

‘Love Is Not Rescue’ shows a change of direction from 2008’s rockier, heavier ‘Capital’ (“turbo-charged/grandiose/hummable fire” Q), the final part to his acclaimed London Trilogy. With this album, Chris focuses more on personal themes – love and the complexities of relationships – stripping back his sound and laying bare private lyrics over delicate melodies to create courageous, honest songs from the heart. It is a return to Chris's original visceral yearnings of love and loss; “British pop’s street-poet laureate and unsung genius” (The Sunday Times) has produced a beautifully introspective and pensive album.

The stunning album opener ‘Nintendo’ will precede the release on 8 March as a download only single.

Playing piano, electric and acoustic guitar (although not all at the same time) his UK tour of intimate gigs will highlight Chris’s wide and varied talent that has created a diverse career spanning seven studio albums. The dates are:

MARCH

6 Winchester, The Tower £6
7 Portsmouth, Eastney Cellars £6
9 Bristol, The Croft £5
10 Cardiff, Clwb Ifor Bach £6
11 Oxford, Jericho Tavern £6
12 Cambridge, Portland Arms £5
13 Norwich, The Marquee £6
14 Nottingham, Bodega £6
15 Birmingham, Academy 3 £6
17 Hull, The Adelphi £5
19 Teesdale, Club Cotherstone £5
20 Edinburgh, Sneaky Pete’s £6
21 Glasgow, The 13th Note £6
24 London, Slaughtered Lamb £7
25 Tunbridge Wells, The Forum £7
26 Canterbury, The Farmhouse £6
27 Brighton, Freebutt £6
Doors at 7pm

“We should cherish such poets of 21st century urbanity.” Plan B Magazine
“Chris stakes his claim to be the 21st-century Ray Davies” The Sunday Times
“If he was standing for London Mayor, I'd vote for him...” Steve Lamacq, Radio 2

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