Jamie T, "Sheila." Along with Amy Winehouse's "You Know I'm No Good," this makes for two Brit-pop songs this year that product place Stella Artois. Twenty one year old Londoner Jamie T. (last name Treays) has a packed with ideas debut album called Panic Prevention been variously described as "the bastard lovechild of Billy Bragg and Mike Skinner doing his best Joe Strummer impression" and, by my colleague Steve Klinge, as "Ian Dury for the Lily Allen generation." He's on an excellent bill at the North Star on Saturday with Illinois and Yah Mos Def. Wish I could get me a monkey to do my vacuuming.
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