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Speaking on BBC Radio 1, he said of his comeback: “I missed being in a room with people and playing music, yeah totally.

“I miss getting in a place with people and have sweat dripping from the ceiling.”

Jamie previously quit music for a number of years as he struggled to cope with the big crowds at his gigs as his fame grew due to the success of his first two albums, 2007's 'Panic Prevention' and 2009's 'Kings and Queens'.

And while the 'Zombie' singer still gets "quite anxious", he's able to work around it better these days.

He explained: “I like to keep my head in the sand a lot with this because I get quite anxious with this stuff.

“My way of doing it nowadays is people just tell me where to go and what I’m meant to be doing and I do it that day because if I have time to think about it I worry … and then I just end up an anxious mess.”

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Jamie T plays London's Finsbury Park: Full setlist

1 July 2023, 14:25

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Jamie T played an epic date at the north London park on Friday. Find out what was on the setlist.

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Jamie T played a homecoming gig at London's Finsbury Park on Friday 30th June on what he dubbed the "biggest moment" of his career.

After supporting sets from the likes of Kojey Radical and IDLES , the Wimbledon bard took to the stage for a party of epic proportions.

The weather may have been unseasonably gloomy, but it didn't stop the crowd from living it up as Jamie T - whose real name is Jamie Treays - played a 14-track set, which kicked off with new single Hippodrome and included the likes of Sheila , If You've Got The Money , Sticks N' Stones and Zombie .

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IDLES and Jamie T @ Finsbury Park, unreal. Pulp tonight 😍🥰🥳💙 pic.twitter.com/4mxzUAVGhu — Layla 🧚🏼‍♀️ (@Layla_EFC) July 1, 2023

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1. Hippodrome

2. 90s Cars

3. Operation

4. Emily's Heart

5. Spider's Web

6. Limits Lie

7. Rabbit Hole

8. Salvador

9. Dragon Bones

10. If You Got the Money

11. Back in the Game

13. Sticks 'N' Stones (with The Maccabees' Hugo White)

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The Theory of Whatever

“i may never release an album again” – jamie t triumphantly returns, but for how long.

“Unrehearsed, fat and old..,” Jamie Treays shouted into the microphone as he opened his headline set at Glastonbury’s John Peel Stage to rapturous applause, before delivering the punchline: ‘..I give you: Jamie T!’

Few artists in recent memory have demanded as much patience from their fanbase as Jamie. Famously reluctant to engage with press or social media, the songwriter has been all-but invisible to the public in the six years since his last album; a practise which has become commonplace during his periods of musical inactivity.

With new LP The Theory of Whatever arriving imminently, he returned to the Worthy Farm platform that he first headlined back in 2009 to find a tent overflowing with devotees who dismissed Paul McCartney’s rival performance to catch Jamie back in action after all this time. 

Photography by Will Robson-Scott

Although not a concept album by any means ( Theory of Whatever has been assembled from hundreds of songs that Jamie was tinkering with since 2016’s Trick ), there are themes to be unearthed within the track list. The artist’s ever-young, brash delivery and humour still exists in abundance, contrasting and juxtaposing more than ever with suggestions that Treays, now 36, has reached a new phase in his life.

The Theory of Whatever opens the door for nostalgia and self-reflection to creep into Jamie’s lyricism. Tracks like Talk is Cheap captures that adult feeling of falling adrift as friends and routines that we once held dear float away into the ether. Whilst St. George’s Wharf Tower sentimentally sets its sights on the south London skyscraper which has recently infiltrated the skyline of one of the capital’s most rapidly gentrified areas.

A week after his Glastonbury comeback, Jamie sits in a carpeted pub in Soho as he looks ahead to the rollout of his fifth album. “This album has been done for me for about four months – some of the songs for years – and I’m scared shitless now to be honest,” he explains. “It’s funny with songs. I’ve had some that feel so fresh to me, then as soon as I hear them played on Radio One I’ll realise that I hate them.”

It’s well documented that Jamie doesn’t like to divulge too much about his music, keeping meanings personal, if not guarded entirely. Having notched up a consistent hit rate over his fifteen-year career, you can’t help but wonder what is fuelling this ongoing anxiety when releasing new music; is it the fear of six years of work not landing with his fanbase? Or the lingering threat of losing his own connection to these songs once they are shared with the world?

“I don’t know.” Jamie shifts his weight from the creaky wooden pub bench, “both of those things I suppose. I feel like these songs have been mine for a long time and now I’m giving them away.”

“It’s funny with songs. I’ve had some that feel so fresh to me, then as soon as I hear them played on Radio One I’ll realise that I hate them.”

With a shyness and fondness for privacy that would be readily accepted in any other industry, Jamie has routinely been described as reclusive or uncooperative when it comes to promoting his output. Today, he proceeds to evade a majority of questions that are aimed his way, although seemingly through a sincere preference for us to connect via unscripted conversation.

“When I first started in music, the media was a different beast… especially as a kid,” he explains. “You were just expected to hold your own like some kinda fucking politician.”

As a nineteen-year-old artist confronting the British press when it was at its vicious, tabloid-thirsty peak, he must’ve felt like he was being thrown prematurely into a world of adults? “No, I didn’t feel like I was thrown into a world of adults,” he says dryly. “I felt like I was thrown into a world of kids who were pricks.”

Jamie started his career as a teenager, performing at low-key acoustic nights around his native South London to unassuming crowds in areas without much in the way of a ‘scene’. Fan favourites including Sheila , Back in the Game and So Lonely Was The Ballad were hashed out on Putney stages to locals.

“I’d play every Thursday and write a new song every Wednesday,” he recalls in his distinctive saff-London delivery. “I’d half finish it and freestyle it out on the stage the next day.”

This high-intensity creative practise coalesced with other factors in his life, however, and triggered a panic attack. Always prone to anxiety, this was unlike any that he had experienced before. “I ended up in hospital with my hands and feet contorted,” he imitates his misshapen, rigid hands. ‘It came from hyperventilating too much.’

“I didn’t play music for a while, then I ended up getting drunk one night and jumping on stage for a performance. A geezer from EMI approached me that night and I told him to fuck off.”   Young and idealistic, Jamie stayed true to his punk ideology, but major labels were persistent, and it was hard to hold firm “Then they came again a week later, shoving a £60k contract in my face at nineteen years old,” he recalls, going on to sign a five album deal that he has been “bound to” until the release of The Theory of Whatever .

From the difficulty of these panic attacks, however, came Jamie T’s seminal debut album, Panic Prevention . The LP sampled cuts from a self-help CD of the same name that his parents had purchased for him at a young age. Odes to navigating teenage lust, smashing gear in your mum’s sunnies and nightspot interactions made Panic Prevention a much-celebrated, hyperrealist portrait of 2000s youth culture.

Despite his debut going platinum this year, external accolades or acclaim has had very little bearing on Jamie’s own affection for the LP. “That album was a snapshot of me at a certain age. It was me and my best friend doing something together,” he reminisces. ‘We’re not that close anymore and I think about him often, I’m very proud of us making that together.’

“This is my last album on my label, so I can walk away from it all soon…”

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As rare and pleasing as it is to see this display of fondness for what Jamie has accomplished in the past, it’s his future that burdens him currently. And each time the subject of Jamie’s next move is broached, the tone becomes combative once more, as if he is starkly reminded that he is on record.

“Look, I’m 36 now and I’m tired as fuck,” he says, exasperated. “I love my missus, I’m happy with my life, I’m happy with what I’ve done and I don’t give a fuck anymore,” he proclaims, attempting to pre-empt and moot the rest of the interview.

“This side of things,” he gestures towards his management and publicist sat a few tables away. “It’s just a job now and I can’t pretend to be something that I’m not. I don’t even know if I’ll be releasing anymore music.” Between his strained patience from a day of interviews, and the sinking of several pints in the process, it is hard to gauge the sincerity of this prospect.

“I’ve done five albums, I’ve been doing this since I was nineteen. I don’t want to keep answering questions, I’ll write songs when I want to and I may never release an album again,” his tone feels absolute as he aims his words towards the dictaphone “…And you can all live or die by that. ”

Despite this, a very personable side still makes itself present at times, never more so than when asked if he could genuinely see a reality in which he does finally walk away from it all. He exhales, softening his mood. “This is my last album on my label, so I can walk away from it all soon,” he resolves, now looking into one of the empty pint glasses. ‘But the idea of living without it is as terrifying as the idea of living with it.’

These moments of vulnerability amidst outspoken sweary rants align in perfect symmetry with the artist that listeners fell in love with fifteen years ago. He may be (in his words) older and fatter, but bravado and cocksure authority is still intercut with fleeting glimpses of human frailty, much as it was in Panic Prevention ; where songs about scraps and no-hope futures intertwine with confronting the most suffocating of anxieties.

The Sticks ‘N’ Stones songwriter says that there is a genuine probably that he will soon release everything he has ever recorded – every demo, voice-note and half-finished song – in one big data dump. “Then everyone can have it and I’ll fuck off forever. I don’t give a fuck what people think anymore.”

As the meeting wraps and audio is switched off, Jamie finishes his drink and lifts himself from the rounded pub table. He leans in to say goodbye, nodding towards the recording device as he does so, “…just be kind, yeah?” he says earnestly.

The Theory of Whatever is out now, Jamie will be touring the UK in November – see dates here .

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Tickets to Jamie T’s The Theory of Whatever UK tour are now available on Ticketmaster .

Despite the fact that 15 years have passed since his debut album Panic Prevention and that it’s been four years since his last musical offering, a collection of B-sides made throughout the south London singer’s career, Jamie T is still as popular as ever.

The artist’s radio silence has only been enhanced by the lack of shows he’s performed across the last half decade. His recent Glastonbuty set was only the second the musician had performed in five years, the show before that being a tiny comeback gig played in west London last month.

Jamie T’s recent performances have been dominated by his older music, much to the delight of longtime fans. The singer is yet to perform any unreleased music from his upcoming fifth studio album, ‘The Theory Of Whatever’, which is set for release on 22 July – a week earlier than originally announced – via Polydor.

The singer took to Twitter to announce the approaching album release and accompanying UK shows, writing: “Alright then let’s do it.”

Kicking off in November at Newcastle’s O2 City Hall, the musician will perform in nine UK cities throughout the month, headlining at the iconic Alexandra Palace in London on 18 November, with the final show taking place in Portsmouth on 22 November.

How to get tickets

Tickets to all the UK shows go on general sale on Friday 8 July at 9am and are available on Ticketmaster .

O2 priority presale tickets for Jamie T’s UK tour are available until Friday 8 July on Ticketmaster . Presale tickets are not available for the shows in London, Cardiff, or Portsmouth.

Where to see Jamie T on tour in 2022

• 10 November: Newcastle Upon Tyne, O2 City Hall
• 11 November: Birmingham, O2 Academy
• 12 November: Leeds, O2 Academy
• 14 November: Glasgow, O2 Academy
• 15 November: Sheffield, O2 Academy
• 17 November: Manchester, O2 Victoria Warehouse
• 18 November: London, Alexandra Palace
• 21 November: Cardiff, Cardiff University Students Union
• 22 November: Portsmouth, Portsmouth Guildhall

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Jamie T announces UK tour for November

In support of his new album ‘The Theory of Whatever’

Jamie T has announced details of a UK tour that’s set to take place in November.

The singer/songwriter has returned to action in 2022, with his new album ‘The Theory of Whatever’ set for release on July 29 via Polydor Records.

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Jamie T will celebrate the new record with a nine-date UK tour in November, which will kick off in Newcastle on November 10.

The tour will visit Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Sheffield, Manchester, London and Cardiff before wrapping up in Portsmouth on November 22.

Alright then let's do it. Back on tour in November. Pre-order The Theory Of Whatever from my store by 5pm on Tuesday 5th July to get exclusive pre-sale access to the tour https://t.co/CU5gnmkrXY pic.twitter.com/jb1MNj6QrJ — Jamie T (@jamietmusic) June 28, 2022

You can check out Jamie T’s upcoming UK tour dates below, while tickets, which will go on sale at 9am on July 8, will be available to purchase here .

November 10 – O2 City Hall, Newcastle 11 – O2 Academy, Birmingham 12 – O2 Academy, Leeds 14 – O2 Academy, Glasgow 15 – O2 Academy, Sheffield  17 – O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester 18 – Alexandra Palace, London 21 – University Great Hall, Cardiff 22 – Guildhall, Portsmouth

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Jamie T headlined the John Peel Stage at Glastonbury last weekend , marking only his second live appearance in the past five years. Prior to that, he made his live comeback with an intimate show at Subterania in west London last month .

T’s latest single ‘St George Wharf Tower’ was released last week .

Earlier this year, the musician released a 15th anniversary reissue of his debut album ‘Panic Prevention’ . The record featured the singles ‘Sheila’, ‘If You Got The Money’ and ‘Calm Down Dearest’ and was nominated for the Mercury Prize in 2007, but lost out to  Klaxons ‘ ‘Myths Of The Near Future’.

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Jamie T returns to the stage with UK tour after 5-year hiatus

The infamous singer-songwriter held the audience at the O2 Academy Sheffield in the palm of his hands with his life-affirming indie rock.

After Jamie Treays, AKA Jamie T, made his triumphant return to live music at Glastonbury in June after a five-year hiatus, fans across the country were waiting with bated breath for a UK tour to be announced.

Closing his legendary set to a packed John Peel tent he thanked his audience by saying that “he couldn’t give a f*ck” if anyone comes to see him any more. “I’d play to an empty room,” he said. “I don’t care.”

This won’t be happening anytime soon though, as the 36-year-old’s UK tour showcasing his new album The Theory of Whatever sold out in mere minutes.

We were lucky enough to attend his gig at the O2 Academy in Sheffield which saw the snaggle-toothed guitarist transport his audience back to the noughties with a night of mayhem and bedlam.

Entrance to the O2 Academy in Sheffield was stress-free and efficient, we had our tickets checked in no time, drinks served within minutes and we felt in safe hands throughout.

Taking to the stage dressed in a navy oversized denim jacket, matching jeans and a black baseball cap, Jamie T had the crowd roaring from the moment a single chord was heard from his acoustic guitar.

Openers ’90s Cars’ and ‘Old Style Raiders’ are both tracks from his new album and were met with elated cheers, the crowd trying their best to keep up with his fast paced, rap-style singing which is undeniably recognised as his trademark sound.

‘So Lonely Was the Ballad’ takes us promptly back to the mid-noughties and reminds us of the time when T’s speak-singing, half-rap, idiosyncratic beat had us all glued to our portable CD players.

A two-song acoustic interlude is punctuated with a dimming of the lights and a band member perching on a stool with a ukulele, the crowd were given a time to breathe and take in the pure brilliance of Jamie and his talented band.

“This is our last song,” T tells the crowd before launching into an electric version of ‘If You Got The Money’, and from here on out it’s a sea of air-punching, flailing limbs across the floor.

Jamie and his band walk off stage, the crowd is pulsating with anticipation to finally rock out to arguably his three biggest tracks.

The intro to ‘Sheila’ draws the biggest roar of the night, with the opening lyrics ‘Sheila goes out with her mate Stella’ sung unanimously in perfect synchronisation across the 2,300 capacity of the O2.

Next up the moment we’ve all been waiting for, ‘Sticks n Stones’ causes an eruption of excitement with the floor pounding thanks to a rhythmic thundering of feet.

To finish an incredible night, the melodic opening of ‘Zombie’ had us eagerly anticipating the artist’s most iconic chorus. Jamie teased us with a “wait for it…” and then after allowing a monumental mosh pit to form in the centre of the floor, shocked us with an electric closing performance of the iconic track.

Two thousand people left sweaty, smiling and singing along to Jamie T’s iconic repertoire of anthems. The way he commanded his audience after a notable time out of the spotlight was truly impressive and marks his position as a legend of British indie music.

The singer-songwriter is continuing his tour across the UK which ends in Portsmouth on 22 November 2022. If you didn’t manage to grab tickets to this tour, next summer the Londoner will play his biggest headline show to date at the 45,000 capacity Finsbury Park.

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Democrats are talking about replacing Joe Biden. That wouldn't be so easy.

President Joe Biden's performance in the first debate Thursday has sparked a new round of criticism from Democrats , as well as public and private musing about whether he should remain at the top of the ticket.

In the modern era, a national party has never tried to adversarially replace its nominee, in part, because knows it would most likely fail. The issue came before both parties in 2016, but neither took action.

Party rules make it almost impossible to replace nominees without their consent, let alone smoothly replace them with someone else. And doing so would amount to party insiders’ overturning the results of primaries when Democratic voters overwhelmingly to nominate Biden. He won almost 99% of all delegates.

And at the moment, there’s no known, serious effort to push him off the top of the ticket.

Still, the Democratic National Committee's charter does make some provisions in case the party’s nominee is incapacitated or opts to step aside, and an anti-Biden coup at the convention is theoretically possible, if highly unlikely. So how would it work?

What happens if Biden drops out before the convention?

The only plausible scenario for Democrats to get a new nominee would be for Biden to decide to withdraw, which he has sworn off repeatedly during other bumpy stretches of his campaign.  

He could do so while serving out the rest of his term in the White House, as Lyndon Johnson did in 1968. 

If Biden were to drop out before he is scheduled to be formally nominated in August, it would create a free-for-all among Democrats, because there’s no mechanism for him or anyone else to anoint a chosen successor.

It takes a majority of the roughly 4,000 pledged delegates to win the party’s nomination. Biden’s won 3,900 of them. Under recent reforms, the party’s more than 700 superdelegates — Democratic lawmakers and dignitaries — are allowed to vote only if no one wins a majority of pledged delegates on the first ballot, so their votes could be crucial in a contested convention. 

Because Biden's opponents all won effectively no delegates throughout the Democratic nominating process, there'd be a virtual clean slate heading into the convention, and the decision would most likely come down to the convention delegates who were initially pledged to Biden.

Biden would have some influence over his pledged delegates, but ultimately, they can vote as they please, so candidates would most likely campaign aggressively to win over each individual delegate.

However, there's a potentially important wrinkle: Democrats plan to formally nominate Biden virtually ahead of the late-August convention to sidestep any potential concerns about ballo t access in Ohio, where a technical quirk has complicated things

Democrats decided to plan a virtual nomination for Biden after Ohio Republicans balked at passing pro forma legislation that would allow Biden to be on the ballot, even though the convention falls after a state deadline. But while Republicans passed a law to shift the deadline, Democrats decided to move forward with a virtual nomination nonetheless.

Could Democrats replace Biden against his will?

There’s no evidence the party would entertain a change without Biden’s consent. But even if it did, there’s no mechanism for it to replace a candidate before the convention, and certainly no way for it to anoint a chosen successor.

If large swaths of the Democratic Party lost faith in Biden, delegates to the national convention could theoretically defect en masse. Of course, they were chosen to be delegates because of their loyalty to Biden and have pledged to support him at the convention.

But, unlike many Republican delegates, Democratic delegates aren’t technically bound to their candidate. DNC rules allow delegates to “in all good conscience reflect the sentiments of those who elected them,” providing some wiggle room.

The party’s charter does include provisions to replace the nominee in the event of a vacancy. The measure is intended to be used in case of death, resignation or incapacitation, not to replace someone who has no desire to step down.

That was the measure that Donna Brazile, then the interim DNC chair, considered invoking after Hillary Clinton collapsed two months before the 2016 election, she wrote in her memoir .

In her memoir, released a year later, Brazile wrote that she was worried “not just about Hillary’s health but about her anemic campaign ... so lacking in the spirit of fight.” 

“Perhaps changing the candidate was a chance to win this thing, to change the playing field in a way that would send Donald Trump scrambling and unable to catch up,” she wrote, adding that aides to other would-be candidates contacted her, including then-Vice President Biden’s chief of staff.

But after less than 24 hours of consideration, Brazile realized the idea was untenable without Clinton’s cooperation and likely to only divide her party further. “I could not make good on my threat to replace her," she wrote.

Current DNC Chair Jaime Harrison is a longtime Biden ally who serves, essentially, at the pleasure of the president. And the national party has certainly given no indication it’s anything but fully behind his re-election.  

What happens if Biden withdraws after the convention?

To fill a vacancy on the national ticket, the chair can call a “special meeting” of the full DNC, which includes about 500 members. On paper, at least, all it takes is a majority vote of those present to pick new presidential and vice presidential nominees. But that process would most likely be anything but smooth and be filled with behind-the-scenes jockeying and public pressure campaigns. 

If a vacancy were to occur close to the November election, however, it could raise constitutional, legal and practical concerns. Among other issues, ballots have to be printed well in advance of the election, and it might not be possible to change them in time.

Would Kamala Harris replace Biden?

If Biden were to relinquish the presidency, Vice President Kamala Harris would automatically become president — but not the Democratic Party’s nominee. Nor would she necessarily be the nominee if Biden withdrew from his re-election bid while he remained in the White House.

She might be politically favored, but party rules give the vice president no major mechanical benefit over other candidates. 

Biden’s delegates wouldn’t automatically transfer to Harris, and the convention holds separate votes on nominees for president and vice president. So she would still need to win a majority of delegates at the convention. 

If the top of the ticket were vacated after the convention, she would still need to win a majority of votes at the special meeting of the DNC.

That is all, at least, under current party rules. But a vacancy at the top of the ticket is the kind of dramatic moment that might lead party leaders to revisit them in the name of easing the transition. Harris has some close allies in key places at the DNC, including a co-chair of the party’s Rules and Bylaws Committee. But nothing would be likely to happen without a fight.

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Jamie Dimon is once again getting unwanted attention as a possible Democratic presidential nominee after Biden’s gaffe-filled debate performance

The CEO of JPMorgan Chase has found himself yet again thrust into the spotlight under the question of a White House run—this time pushed by billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman.

President Biden left many voters feeling uninspired following his performance in a televised debate with former President Donald Trump this week. Biden stumbled over certain points, reportedly leading some in his party to wonder if it’s time for a replacement .

This is the question Ackman, founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, has pounced upon—and drawn Wall Street titan Dimon into the conversation.

Posting on the Elon Musk–owned social media platform X after the debate, Ackman—a fierce critic of Biden—wrote : “If the Democratic Party were smart, it would make Jamie Dimon the candidate.

“Jamie said he wouldn’t run unless he was anointed president. This would be his anointment.”

If the Democratic Party were smart, it would make Jamie Dimon the candidate. Jamie said he wouldn’t run unless he was anointed president. This would be his anointment. — Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) June 28, 2024

Dimon—who was paid a record $36 million for his work at America’s biggest bank in 2023 —may have been taken somewhat at his word in this instance.

Earlier this year, per the Financial Times , Dimon said: “I’ve always said I’d love to be president, but you’d have to anoint me, folks,” prompting laughter from his audience at the Economic Club of New York.

Indeed, while many have thrown the Harvard Business School alum’s metaphorical hat into the ring, Dimon has repeatedly denied his intentions for a presidential run.

“I’ve never really believed I’m suited for it,” he told The Economist in July of last year. “If you’re going to do that, you should practice. You don’t just say, ‘Oh I’m going to run for office,’” Dimon added. “There may be common skills between a CEO in terms of administration, management, leadership, but there’s also non-common ones. You’re dealing with a whole bunch of different issues.”

JPMorgan has also shut down such speculation, telling Fortune last summer : “As he has said in the past, Jamie has no plans to run for office. He is very happy in his current role.”

A spokesperson for the bank declined to comment on Friday.

Dimon’s denials have continued into this year. In an interview with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang two months ago, Dimon was asked if he was “sure” he wasn’t running for office.

“I’m pretty sure,” Dimon responded. Upon hearing anecdotes of a group of expats saying they would return to the nation if he sat in the Oval Office, Dimon joked back: “I got four more votes.”

While Dimon has also said “maybe one day” he’d serve the U.S. in “one way or another,” the CEO also doubled down on his intention to stay out of politics in an interview with the Wall Street Journal in April.

“I would not do Fed chairman, I wouldn’t do Treasury Secretary—I don’t think I’d ever be picked for that,” he said.

Change of circumstances

Unwarranted or not, speculation about Dimon’s next steps has only increased in recent months after the 68-year-old announced he would be stepping down from the top job at JPMorgan within the next five years.

Dimon—who has earned the unofficial title from some as the “King of Wall Street”—changed his stance in May from the line he has stuck to for many years: that he’ll consider retiring “in five years’ time.”

But this spring at JPMorgan’s investor day, his famous response didn’t come : “The timetable isn’t five years anymore,” he said.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Street began to wonder whether Dimon would continue on as chairman of the board with a new name in the CEO position—or whether he’d depart the financial behemoth entirely.

While the context around Dimon’s occupation might have changed, the fact that Ackman is backing the banker for the White House isn’t a surprise. The hedge fund founder, worth approximately $8 billion, according to Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index , has repeatedly and publicly endorsed Dimon for the presidency.

Indeed, if Dimon did decide to make a run for the White House he wouldn’t be the first high-profile CEO to do so. Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, for example, was considering an independent campaign but ultimately decided against it . Likewise Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief and chairman of his eponymous media company, is a former presidential candidate.

Ackman’s assumption that Dimon would even run for the Biden-led party is also shaky, with the latter describing himself as “barely a Democrat” in previous interviews.

One thing’s for sure, the man worth $2.2 billion according to Forbes has strong opinions about the place of America’s leadership on the global stage. After all, he believes, it’s “the most important thing for the world in the next 100 years.”

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The band have also released the music video for recent song Cult

Japanese metal quintet Bridear have announced new UK dates for 2025.

The band will play seven dates in England and Scotland next April, supporting the release of their brand-new album Born Again .

Tickets will go on sale on Friday, July 12.

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According to promotional materials, the UK shows will be part of an extensive world tour, which will also hit Australia, Japan, North America and mainland Europe.

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Bridear vocalist Kimi comments: “We are so excited to start our first world tour!

“The reaction to Born Again has been amazing and we can’t wait to play these songs for the world!”

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She continued: “It’s not a particularly fashionable road that Bridear have gone down, but their devotion to no-frills heavy metal and compelling hooks has ultimately paid off once more, on an unabashedly authentic record that doesn’t outstay its welcome.”

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Making a change would be far from easy, despite concerns about President Biden’s debate performance. But here’s who has surfaced before — and could again.

The Democratic Party has spent much of the 2024 campaign burying its head in the sand over Americans’ concerns about President Biden’s age and mental sharpness. Rather than reckon with the problem, its most influential voices have cast it as an overblown media construct.

But the party abruptly jerked its head out of that sand Thursday night, after a meandering, occasionally incoherent and almost universally panned first-debate performance from Biden . At its most pronounced, this has led to calls for Biden to step aside, including from those loyal to him.

That instantaneous reaction is hugely significant, in and of itself. It’s the kind of conversation you avoid — and the party has strained to avoid — until you view it as absolutely necessary. Going there and then having Biden stay would only damage him further, because a bunch of allies would have said either implicitly or explicitly that he is not up to the task.

It’s truly a desperate plan and one that features many hurdles . It would almost surely require Biden’s assent to step aside — he holds almost all of the pledged delegates to August’s Democratic National Convention — and even then the process for replacing him is fraught . It’s not even clear that an alternative would render the party better off.

But it’s a prospect that the party has given some consideration, dating back to when Biden had yet to announce his reelection campaign last year. Names were floated as alternatives or even primary challengers.

So, should the party go this route, who would even make sense? Let’s recap some of the names that have been floated — along with their attributes and drawbacks.

1. Vice President Harris

It’s difficult to see how Harris wouldn’t be the alternative unless she, too, voluntarily steps aside. She is, after all, the vice president. And skipping over the first female and first Black vice president would be dicey for a party struggling to maintain its normally huge margins with Black voters — a major part of its base.

The problem is that Harris is about as unpopular as Biden is. Recent surveys from Monmouth University and Suffolk University have shown disapproval of her outpacing approval by 18 and 16 points , respectively. Harris’s own 2020 presidential campaign went poorly, and the party would have little faith that she would be a marked improvement over Biden.

Republicans have made little secret that they relish elevating Harris, with the Trump campaign even running an ad during Thursday’s debate pointing to the possibility that Harris would have to replace Biden as president at some point.

2. Gretchen Whitmer

This is a name you’re likely to see plenty in the days ahead. The Michigan governor combines being an actually plausible alternative with looking almost ideal on paper.

She’s a female governor who hails from a crucial state (Democrats need to hold Midwestern swing states , given their problems in other swing states). She has won both of her races there by around 10 points. Polling this year has shown her approval rating in Michigan between 54 percent and 61 percent . And she’s more experienced and has more of a national profile than a lot of other rising-star Democratic governors, such as Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and Maryland Gov. Wes Moore.

After Harris, she would quickly rise to the top.

3. Pete Buttigieg

It’s perhaps an undersold fact that the transportation secretary nearly won both the Iowa and New Hampshire presidential nominating contests back in 2020 when he was just a mayor of a midsize Midwestern city (South Bend, Ind.). And if the party is looking for the antithesis of Biden’s inability to drive a message against Trump, it’s Buttigieg. His jousting with Fox News hosts and Republicans at congressional hearings is often shared widely in Democratic circles. He’s a gifted messenger.

If there’s a big drawback with Buttigieg, it’s that he appears to be the wrong candidate to try to arrest the Democratic ticket’s apparent problem with diverse — and especially Black — voters. He got very little support from such groups in 2020.

4. Josh Shapiro

The Pennsylvania governor is one of the more intriguing rising stars in the national Democratic Party, earning plaudits for his big 2022 win and bipartisan credentials . He’s also, like Whitmer, quite popular in a crucial state for the Democratic ticket. Even more than 3 in 10 Trump supporters there like him , according to a poll this year. It’s hard to see how that doesn’t catch Democrats’ eye.

But Shapiro has largely been regarded as an option for 2028, having been governor for just a year and a half. He’s been in statewide office for a while, having previously served as state attorney general, but it would be a rapid rise.

5. Jared Polis

The Colorado governor and former congressman has some of the same bipartisan bona fides as Shapiro. The nation’s first openly gay man to be elected governor has crafted a compelling record and has largely avoided getting bogged down in potentially problematic liberal policies. He has also won big — by double digits in 2018 and nearly 20 points in 2022.

And he has clearly expressed interest in going national one day .

6. Gavin Newsom

Perhaps nobody has surfaced more as an alternative should Biden step aside than the California governor, owing in large part to his efforts to expand his national profile by mixing it up with national Republicans and GOP governors. On that front, Newsom would seem to have some of the same attributes as Buttigieg.

But it’s difficult to see the Democratic Party deciding that the recipe right now is a California governor and former mayor of San Francisco, a city Republicans would be only so happy to run against by pointing to its crime problem. It would be basically inviting Republicans to caricature the Democratic ticket.

7. Raphael G. Warnock

The Georgia senator has won a key swing state twice now in a short time. And his stock would seem to be higher than that of other Black candidates who have graced lists like this in the past, such as Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.).

Warnock’s 2022 campaign, in particular, was seen as a road map for how Democrats could run in 2024. And with Democrats struggling to keep swing states outside the Midwest in play, picking someone who hails from one of them makes a lot of sense.

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8. Michelle Obama

This is the fantasy option for Democrats — and we mean that in more than one way. She would seem to be the ideal alternative for many, but she also seems unlikely to run.

Obama is the most popular former first lady in America, dating back to Lady Bird Johnson, according to a late-2023 YouGov poll. She has also consistently been liked by a clear majority of Americans, which we can’t say for many political figures.

But she has professed basically no interest in running in her own right; going from that to waging a presidential campaign with just a few months to go is a huge stretch. We also learned this week about reported tensions between her and the Biden campaign .

It’s truly a break-glass-in-case-of-emergency option. And the glass appears to be shatterproof.

9. Amy Klobuchar

The Minnesota senator would make the most sense if Democrats sought a candidate with many of the same attributes Biden has, minus the age problem. She is pragmatic and seemingly broadly agreeable. She has a strong electoral track record in her state.

But she still cuts a very limited national profile, and her 2020 presidential campaign didn’t gain much traction. If the name of the game is picking someone to take the fight to Trump, Minnesota Nice might not be the recipe.

10. Andy Beshear

Perhaps nobody’s stock has risen more in recent months. That owes to the fact that the Kentucky governor was up for reelection in 2023 and won in a very red state.

He has intriguing bipartisan appeal, and he has succeeded in his state without straying too much to the right. (We often see that Democratic governors in red states and GOP governors in blue states have to take positions that don’t comport with their national party.) He even played up his support for abortion rights during the 2023 campaign — something previously unthinkable.

He also reportedly is taking the kind of steps you would expect from someone with national ambitions . But it’s not clear how he would play with liberal base voters whom Democrats need to inject with enthusiasm.

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