少年时代JamieT 曾是一支Punk Rock乐团的低音结他手，然而他弹奏的是一支Acoustic Bass；他既是唱作歌手，也是睡房电音制作人；他受哥哥的感染而听Drum‘n’ Bass，从The Clash到Rancid都是对他影响深远的Punk Rock乐团，Beastie Boys的Hip Hop音乐又带给他莫大的启蒙；他玩音乐之余也会选曲制作Mix Tape。来自伦敦南部、现年廿一岁的Jamie T的音乐，他就是一位这样有趣的英伦音乐才子。在首张专辑Panic Prevention内，聆听他将Punk、Reggae、Hip Hop、Folk进行Mix-Mash(引用Jamie之用语)的折衷主义声音，也许会有人将他与美国音乐人Beck早年的DIY作品相提并论，但最大回异，是Jamie T的音乐是来得「很英伦」，带著浓烈的伦敦Urban气味。正如在Jamie T身上乃赋予著深厚的Reggae音乐素质而来，但所师承却是源自英伦Punk乐教父团The Clash的Punk Reggae，而多於正宗牙买加Reggae音乐的基因，加上他浓浓的英国口音，也是何解他被形容为The Clash已故主将Joe Strummer和当代伦敦MC兼制作人The Streets的混合体。单听Jamie T的几首主打单曲，已是那么各异其趣。最先在其自家厂牌Pacemaker Recordings旗下发表的处男单曲Salvador，Punk-Funk得犹如The Clash遇上Happy Mondays，即是点点Punk加点点Funk加点点靡烂，背後的影响却是Squeeze的Cool For Cats和Them的Baby, Please Don’t Go这两曲；第二张单曲Sheila的轻轻松松Ragga加Hip Hop，第三张单曲If You Got The Money由草根Reggae变成Punk-Pop，而最新单曲Calm Down Dearest则流露出他动人旋律化的一面。还不够多元化吗？Brand New Bass Guitar的Acoustic蓝调民歌，Back In The Game 的Acousic Folk Rock，都甚有Jamie的另一音乐英雄Billy Bragg之自弹自唱风范；Reggae遇上Hip House有So Lonely Was The Ballad；Pacemaker是很The Clash的Punk歌；在Ike & Tina里他又玩起Drum ‘n’ Bass节拍来；碟末的Dubby歌曲Alicia Quays，因为他原先试图向一首R&B天后Alicia Keyes的歌曲之钢琴部分取材而命名。在Panic Prevention内，打造出是其混种的意义，把他喜欢的音乐素材全盘堆放在一起。不要被唱片封面上的「立立乱」房间吓怕，Jamie T的音乐，是能够达至紊而不乱的地步。by Stewart MasonWith his appealingly lazy hip-hop vocal phrasing and his eclectic bedroom D.I.Y. musical palette, Jamie T comes across at times like the mutant love child of the Streets' Mike Skinner and Badly Drawn Boy's Damon Gough. His clever pop sense is his own, however, and keeps the young South Londoner from sounding like a mash-up of his influences, which range from vintage Jamaican ska to the Beastie Boys, via Tina Turner and the Clash. Born Jamie Treays (roughly, "TREE-yay") in Wimbledon in 1986, Jamie T grew up in multicultural London, absorbing a variety of musical styles while attempting to create his own. Abandoning the guitar as too difficult to play while singing, Jamie T first picked up the electric bass before a friend gifted him with a hand-me-down standup acoustic model. While playing solo bass-and-vocals gigs, Jamie T also started recording his own one-man band home tracks, eventually debuting with the "Salvador" 7" single in 2004, followed by the Betty and the Selfish Sons EP, both on his own Pacemaker Records imprint. Along with gigs with increasingly hot London acts like the Mystery Jets, Jamie T got an instant leg up when Damon Albarn chose him to remix Gorillaz's single "Kids with Guns." Signing to Gorillaz's label, Virgin Records, Jamie T put together a full band lineup for live gigs and released two more singles in 2006, "Sheila" and "If You've Got the Money," as he prepared his debut album, Panic Prevention, released in early 2007.