9 GREEN Songs is a sequel of sorts to 2005's 9 Red Songs, right down to each having ten, not nine, songs, so his counting hasn't improved in ten, sorry, eleven years, and nor has Chris Thorpe-Tracey's mood.

He's still out of joint, synch and love with England's green, unpleasant land, or at least its political landscape, as the sardonic Brighton troubadour has been for nine studio albums and two live collections that shouldn't have slipped under the radar.

His fate is to support Carter USM's where-are-they-now? Jim Bob on a November tour, but if you need someone radical for Sheffield's Festival of Debate or the Glossop Defiance Sessions, he fits the bill to a T-T.

Still even more DIY than early Billy Bragg, more grassroots than Jeremy Corbyn, T-T rails against the Worst Government Ever (take your pick right now, Chris); menaces liberals and hipsters alike and contemplates death by drowning, but proffers fleeting green hope in A Garden On The Motorway, advocating covering concrete with flowers.