Michael "Atters" Attree

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Michael "Atters" Attree sporting his famous handlebar moustache.
Michael "Atters" Attree sporting his famous handlebar moustache.

Michael "Atters" Attree (born April 22, 1965) is a British satirist and comedy writer.

Attree graduated in Fine Art & Film from London's Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design. "Atters" (as he is more widely known) is "Editor of Roguishness" for the satirical magazine The Chap. He began as the magazine's "Grooming Editor" (and activist)[1] and is currently serialised as "The Bounder". As Flux Magazine's "Paranormal Investigations Editor", his satirical series "Atters Attree’s Temple of Arcane" explores the supernatural through spoof case studies and paranormal photographs (including human levitation, stigmata, UFOs and spontaneous human combustion). He has been an ongoing columnist for the Erotic Review magazine and was also serialised in T3 Magazine (with his socially dysfunctional robotic sidekick Robodog) as their caddish "Gadget Guru". His articles (including broadsheet reviews) [2] are frequently black humoured and Gonzo in style. With his colonial parental upbringing [3] and jaunty persona, Attree has been described as a “roguish super-chap”[4] and has featured as a character within various popular-culture Animutations.[5] Attree also sits upon the committee of London's Handlebar Club[6] (formed for ex-RAF veterans by comedian Whacko! Jimmy Edwards) and according to The Guardian,[7] "Atters" is the club's "most rakish member". He has been Honorable Chairman of the World Beard and Moustache Championships and was Master of Ceremonies of the 2007 event. A Pre-Raphaelite stained glass triptych housed within Brighton’s Annunciation Church celebrates his ancient family name [8] who were noted medieval Lords of the Manor [9] During the 1980s Janet Street-Porter (then head of BBC Youth and Entertainment Features) commissioned Attree to work on various BBC programmes as a producer and director. He was also an independent 16mm filmmaker and later worked on documentaries for Channel Four. Lindsay Anderson, film critic and director of both O Lucky Man! and If.... once said of his work: "Menacing, disturbing, disturbed. Such is the ruthlessness and ironic-poetic spirit of Attree's probing camera".[10]

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  1. ^ Tate Modern Protest: http://www.thechap.net/content/section_manifesto/tateprotest.html
  2. ^ Travel (weekend supplement with the Guardian Newspaper), Manchester and London, March 31, 2007
  3. ^ The Chap magazine, Autumn 2006. Issue 31.
  4. ^ Erotic Review. Issue NO 74
  5. ^ Animutations Featuring Michael “Atters” Attree. FanimutationWiki: www.http://wiki.animutationportal.com/Main_Page
  6. ^ The Handlebar Club http://www.handlebarclub.co.uk/2004news1.htm
  7. ^ The Guide (supplement with the Guardian Newspaper), Manchester and London, September 25, 2004. http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguide/features/story/0,14671,1310975,00.html
  8. ^ The Church of the Annunciation http://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/page_id__5550.aspx,
  9. ^ Sussex Archaeological Collections (1887), Vol. XXXV by Captain F.W.T. Attree, R.E.
  10. ^ Penthouse Forum Volume 40, Number 12.

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