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Jamie T
The ramshackle Wimbledon troubadour born Jamie Alexander Treays (8 January 1986)
in Wimbledon, London, was drawn to music when he discovered that it calmed the
panic attacks he suffered as a teenager. Making mixtapes and DIY beats in his
bedroom, he started writing songs on an acoustic bass, telling stories about the
characters he found in the spit and sawdust South London pubs where he'd started
to play. As early single "Sheila" (2006) sang of binge-drinking tragedies, his
drawled mockney raps about the rough end of society brought comparisons with
Mike Skinner, Ian Dury and Bil...
