Well. thank you very much if you made it to a 20th anniversary ‘Best Of’ show, which became my final tour. It was ironic but kind of inevitable that the short final run over the past few weeks was my most fun UK solo tour for years – and you were just bloody amazing.

If you’re at The Great Escape this weekend and you dig your folk music but you haven’t got time to dig through yet (or tell the thousand acoustic artists apart), here are 14 Midnight Campfire tips for folk/roots artists performing across the festival. Yup, listed in chronological order…

“Oil the door, man, oil the door.”

OK, scary announcement time for me.

I’m well chuffed to announce that to mark my 20th anniversary making music as Chris T-T, Xtra Mile Recordings will release a Best Of Chris T-T double album on 19th May – and pre-orders are live now…

Mid November: the opening night of Jim Bob’s UK tour. We were in Leeds, it was sold out and I was due onstage in five minutes. Jim and me were chatting backstage, Mr Spoons was setting up his guitar tech stuff and Marc was out in the venue running the merch stall, talking with punters. Then Jim got a text. It was a message from Miles Hunt out of The Wonder Stuff.