And while we all stop to take notice, it looks like 21-year-old Jamie T seems to be taking it all in his stride.

With a distinct voice, he sounds like the young man he is, but speaks with the maturity of someone much older and worldly wise when it comes to the world around him.

His debut Panic Prevention is a homemade concoction of tales of adolescence, birds, brawls, booze and babies are all candidly dealt with.

Everything is up for grabs in Jamie T’s eyes and in his hands he craftily handles every style, from skiffle to hip hop — his vocals range from lairy to hauntingly tender.

Listing The Clash and The Specials as some of his favourite bands it seems Treays (the T part) has no great interest in new music.

“I don’t listen to many new bands,” he explains.

“I’m sure there are a lot of good ones you know, but I’m still trying to catch up with all the old stuff because I haven’t really got over it yet. There’s so much new stuff that by the time I catch up with the new stuff it will be 2008 and then it will be the old stuff.”

As the hype machine has gathered pace around the 21-year-old Wimbledon geezer he has garnered constant comparisons to The Libertines and The Streets, but he doesn’t see the legacy of his lyrical content or distinctive singing style lying amongst his contemporaries.

“All respect to them, but it was always Ian Dury and the Blockheads for me, that’s where I got speaking over the records from.”

A potential superstar for your everyday man on the street Jamie T will take some by surprise, his quiet demeanour is replaced onstage with a charisma fit to match his lyrical charm.

But he’s taken his time to arrive with debut in hand. He explains, “I find it a bit strange when people try to tout you as the new thing emerging out of nowhere.

“I’ve been around for a while playing hundreds of gigs in London before anyone noticed.”

With everyone’s attention firmly fixed on Treays there are going to be opportunities for it to all go terribly wrong, but he insists he’s looking forward, not to fame, but making a second album.

“I’m looking forward to it, but there’s a bit of panic there. I’m just trying to busy myself writing the second record,” he explains.

“Not notice any of it, ignorance is bliss you know?”

With a classic debut album that is reckless, lairy and tender as well as an array of tunes such as Sheila, Salvador and If You Got The Money it seems the young Londoner’s resolve might be tested to the limit.

Panic Prevention was released on Monday. Jamie T is currently on tour across the UK.

Although it’s creator Just Jack, has become a familiar name, the chances are you would probably walk past him completely unawares as to who he was.

However, Just Jack is not some flash-in-the-pan plucked from obscurity, Jack Allsopp — to give him his full title — has been around for quite a while in various guises, even getting dropped from his record deal first time round in 2002.

But now signed to Mercury records and armed with a radio friendly single his second album, Overtures, released next Monday, is eagerly anticipated.

Each song bears his personal and distinctive touch, which rather negates the accusations of him being a Mike Skinner clone. There is none of the grime or angry vigour that dominates much of The Streets work, with Just Jack’s conversational singing patter featuring poetic wordplay and playful street-beats.

Delightfully warm-hearted with jazzy breaks, inventive horns, strings and an implicit understanding of the harmonics of laid-back house music harness Jack’s homespun wisdom on pear-shaped relationships, the price of fame and the ups and downs of living for the party.

Occasionally it does border on becoming tedious after a few songs, as well as slightly predictable. But that aside this is a solid crossover album band proves that electronica and dance music have a future in the UK at least, which could turn Overtones into a mainstay of 2007.