'I like to do whatever I want. I'm not trying to fit into any box'

Is it punk? Is it hip-hop? Jamie T defies categorisation with his gritty, witty vignettes of twentysomething urban lifeIt looks as if the evening will end with Jamie T slumped in a backstage corridor with blood spattered across his white vest. In the dressing room, his band, the Pacemakers, are exultant, cracking open cans of Kronenbourg, their debilitating hangovers of earlier in the day now vanished in the wake of a blinding gig at Northumbria University in Newcastle. But it's the rigours of t...

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