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Michael "Atters" Attree
Born (1965-04-22) 22 April 1965 (age 59)
Colchester Military Hospital
Occupation(s)Satirist, comedy writer, performer, comedian
Websitehttp://www.atters.com

Michael "Atters" Attree (born 22 April 1965 in Colchester Military Hospital) is a British humourist and performer.

Early life

Attree was born to British colonial parents who met in East Africa during the early 1950s. He was born in Colchester. He studied Fine Art & Film at Saint Martins School of Art.

Career

Attree writes as the editor at large for the satirical magazine The Chap. His feature interviews have included Leslie Phillips, Sir Patrick Moore, Brian Blessed, Alan Moore and Jilly Cooper, while his ongoing column "The Pentagram of Atters" contains information regarding the supernatural. Attree is a campaigner and activist within the "Chap movement". In his book London Calling: A Countercultural History of London since 1945, Barry Miles recalls how Attree (along with two colleagues) climbed to the top of a Rachel Whiteread art installation as part of a "Tate Modern Protest".

Attree has contributed to publications such as Time Out and The Guardian and erotic comedy for magazines such as Penthouse Forum, Erotic Knave (as "The Knave") and Erotic Review. He was also Flux magazines Paranormal Investigations Editor and contributes to magazines specific to the subject of the paranormal.

In the late 80s, Janet Street-Porter (then head of BBC Youth and Entertainment Features) commissioned Attree to work as a producer/director for BBC TV. He later worked as a documentaries producer for Channel Four.

His theatre show Atters Attree’s Chap-orgasmic Terrors is a sci-fi/horror/conspiracy theory comedy spin off of his former Flux magazine series and was performed as part of the Brighton Festival Fringe. Le Figaro magazine states: "Anarcho-dandy, Michael Attree is a revolutionary cell in a three-piece suit who cherishes the dream of overthrowing the Western consumer society."

Other interests

Attree was chairman and host compère of the World Beard and Moustache Championships 2007, held at the Brighton Centre and hosted the British Beard & Moustache Championships 2012 held at the Brighton Dome. He is a committee member of London's Handlebar Club and was the editor of the club's journal for a number of years. He is also a master of ceremonies performer within the fields of neo-burlesque.

See also

References

  1. The Argus Weekend (cover feature): A Bounder and a Cad. 25–26 August 2007.
  2. Adams, Nathaniel & Callahan, Rose (2013). I am Dandy: The return of the Elegant gentleman. Gestalten (Berlin). ISBN 978-3-89955-484-7.
  3. ^ Le Figaro magazine: Les Extravagants-Michael "Atters" Attree. 8 August 2009
  4. The Chap magazine, 2007. Iss. 35.
  5. The Chap magazine, Feature Interview: Dec/Jan 2013. Issue 66.
  6. The Chap magazine, Feature Interview: Apr/may 2012. Issue 68.
  7. The Chap magazine, Feature Interview: Aug/Sep 2013. Issue 70.
  8. The Chap magazine, Feature Interview: Oct/Nov 2013. Issue 71.
  9. The Chap magazine,(P.70): Apr/May 2012. Issue 66 (onward).
  10. The Times: I say Chaps, should Abercrombie’s really be allowed into Savile Row? 24 April 2012 (Valentine Low)
  11. Miles, Barry (2010). London Calling: A Countercultural History of London Since 1945. Atlantic Books. ISBN 978-1-84354-613-9.
  12. Timeout magazine: http://www.timeout.com/london/things-to-do/how-to-smoke-alfresco
  13. The Guardian: Travel (weekend supplement), 31 March 2007
  14. Penthouse Forum magazine, Volume 40: Number 12.
  15. Erotic Knave magazine: Vol 41. Issue 3 (onwards)
  16. Erotic Review magazine, "Atters". Issue NO 76+.
  17. Flux magazine. Issues 52–61.
  18. Fortean Times magazine, "The Occult Moustache" (feature). FT269 December 2010
  19. Foreplay magazine: Ghost Sex Issue (No5). Sex on the Astral Plane (feature) by Michael "Atters" Attree p. 96–101
  20. ^ Penthouse Forum magazine, Volume 43: NO.10
  21. The Guardian Cathy Troupp: Strangers on a whilder shore. 20 November 1990
  22. Fortean Times magazine: FT269 December 2010
  23. The Independent: Brighton Festival Fringe supplement, 2 May 2009
  24. The Guardian The Guide Saturday 1 September – Friday 7 September 2007
  25. The Argus: Cult comedian Atters comes to the Festival Fringe. 15 April 2009 Archived 2 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  26. Temple, Gustav (2011). Am I a Chap? Beautiful Books Limited (London). ISBN 978-1-905636-81-5.
  27. Huffington Post 17th Sept, 2012. BBMC
  28. The Telegraph: Contest is razor sharp at first British Beard and Moustache Championships (Adam Lusher) 16th Sept, 2012
  29. Source: Feature Interview (November 2009)
  30. The Handlebar Club

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