This page lists all news item that were originally published on the old oneofthethree site in 2003. Links and images have either been removed or pointed to the new site where internal.
Update 27.12.03
Universal (Mercury’s parent company) are planning a mid-price James release in 2004 comprising singles, stand out album tracks and rarities. The album is tentatively entitled The Collection although an alternative is being sought. More details as they come available.
It is rumoured that Dave Baynton-Power is to join The Alarm as their live drummer on their forthcoming UK tour. Oneofthethree is trying to get official confirmation of this.
Apologies to all those trying to download the mp3s. Not sure what the problem is – the server is up and I can upload and download via ftp. Trying to resolve this as soon as possible.
Update 9.12.03
Tim Booth has cancelled his support slot for The Lovegods at Brighton’s Komedia club this Friday. No reason has yet been given.
Update 27.11.03
Tim Booth is playing a support slot to the award-winning and Tim favourite The Lovegods at Brighton’s Komedia Club on Friday 12th December. Doors are at 8pm and tickets cost £7 and £5 for concessions and can be obtained from the Komedia website or box office on 01273 647100.
The Brighton date is the last date of the Lovegods “Big Mamma Is The Daddy” UK tour which starts this Sunday in Manchester and takes in Liverpool (Dec 2), Preston (Dec 3), Nottingham (Dec 5), Leeds (Dec 8) and Norwich (Dec 9) – check their website for more details. They are also currently in second place in the Radio 1 Unsigned Bands poll – follow this link to listen to, support and vote for them.
Kulas’ show at Toronto Tequila Lounge tonight has been cancelled. He has however scheduled more gigs for the new year. He plays Toronto Rivoli on Friday 20th February 2004 and the Toronto Reverb on Thursday March 25th.
Music chain FOPP are selling the single CD edition of the Best Of for a remarkably cheap and David Dickenson bargainesque £5. Get down there and stock up for Christmas presents.
Update 1.11.03
James are the headlining act on BBC’s digital radio station Radio 6’s Dream Ticket programme on Wednesday night (November 5) between 10 and 12pm. The program is dedicated to classic live performances from the BBC’s archives. The 1993 Brixton Academy show has featured on previous shows, but there is no indication as to which show is being broadcast this time (Belfast 91, Alton Towers 92, London acoustic 92, Brixton 93, Shepherds Bush 97, Manchester 98 or Heaton Park 99 are the contenders). Follow this link for the Dream Ticket website – you can listen to the show online as well.
Update 30.10.03
Tim’s performance in Brighton supporting The Lovegods on September 26th can be confirmed by this rather bizarre review / story.
Update 27.10.03
Tim Booth played another solo show on Saturday evening at New York’s Fez Club – to read a review of the show, click here
Update 24.10.03
Kulas has re-released Another Small Machine in Canada. Talks are still ongoing about a European release in the near future and at the moment the release is planned for 17 countries through United One Records. Warrior, from Katie Griffin’s Kulas-produced debut album Kiss Me Chaos, with Kulas playing all the instruments, has been featuring in the opening titles of American TV movie “Hollywood Wives” this week.
He has also announced a new show at Toronto’s Tequila Lounge on November 27th.
Update 23.10.03
Tim Booth is playing a show at New York’s Fez Club this Saturday evening as part of a CMJ Music Marathon festival. The venue is situated at 380 Lafayette Street at Great Jones. The doors open at 7.30pm and admission is $12. More details can be found at the Fez’s venue website.
Tim also apparently played a solo slot supporting The Lovegods at their show at Brighton’s Sussex Arts Centre on September 26th.
Follow this link for another review of Tim’s solo slot at the ICA on October 15th.
Update 17.10.03
Pictures have now been added from Tim’s performance at the ICA on Wednesday night. Click here to view them – they’re a bit grainy.
Update 16.10.03
Last night, Tim Booth performed a forty-five minute nine-song acoustic set at the London ICA as part of Tony Wilson’s Last Night A DJ Saved My Life concert for Amnesty International. The setlist included two James classics Laid and Sometimes and the Booth and the Bad Angel track Fall In Love With Me, plus six songs he has co-written for his new solo album with guitarist Lee. For a full review and setlist of the show, follow this link.
We will hopefully have some pictures from the show later today.
Did you go? We’d love to post your review of the show? Email to oneofthethreewebsite@yahoo.co.uk.
There’s also a rumour that Tim might also be doing a show in Brighton as part of Radio One’s One Live festival there later this month. I have no details or any confirmation of this and it could well be someone putting together the fact the festival’s on and Tim lives there and is playing unannounced gigs and coming to their own conclusion. But if anyone lives in the area, keep an eye out in the local press and let us know if anything is advertised.
Update 7.10.03 pm
As at lunchtime today, the ICA box office did have a few tickets left for the Tim Booth performance supporting The Music next Wednesday. Click here to go to the ICA website.
For confirmation of Tim’s performance, check out this Amnesty International website.
Update 7.10.03 am
Tim Booth is playing a gig at London ICA next Wednesday October 15 as first on the bill as part of Amnesty International’s Last Night A DJ Saved My Life week of events. He is supporting The Music and Crank. Tickets are sold out as the venue only holds about 350 people and they went on sale at the beginning of September. Trust me on this one, I’ve tried!
But if anyone has a spare, think of all the lovely mp3s and mpegs you’ve got off this site over the past three years 🙂
Update 6.10.03
Tim Booth has now updated his website with latest news. He is presently putting together a band and playing unannounced secret gigs.
He will be co-teaching a weekend workshop called “In.To.Me.See” in Manchester on 21-23 November 2003. Friday 21st is an open evening before the full weekend. As usual, the workshops will not be simply for people to “hang out” with Tim.
Tim Booth’s official website is www.timbooth.net
Update 28.9.03
Time to get your early Christmas presents in. Both HMV and Virgin in the UK are selling the single disc version of the Best Of for £6.99. At that price it could even propel it back into the charts. So get buying and tell all your friends. Also suitable for birthdays, weddings, barmitzvahs and divorces.
Update 23.9.03
More details on Tim’s live performance on Sunday 14th September at Manchester’s One Central Street. Tim played eight songs acoustically, seven new compositions and a piano-led rendition of the James classic Sometimes. He was accompanied by Moody Baker on guitar, with whom he has written several tracks for his album, and Lisa aka Xan (www.xanmusic.com) on piano.
Speaking to fans after the gig Tim revealed that his album is now about three-quarters finished and that Moody Baker plays all instruments on the album. Both he and Xan are likely to form part of Tim’s live band when he tours in future. It is presently planned to release the album and to tour next year but no firm timing for either were forthcoming. He claimed that the album is more “funk and groove” than James and will be an album of “proper pop songs”, even though this couldn’t be put across in the intimate acoustic environment of the performance.
Included in the set was Down To The Sea, which was previewed back in March on Dom Joly and two other tracks possibly called Bones and Fear Of Commitment. Obviously if anyone who went picked up a setlist, please share it with us.
Update 23.9.03
Update 22.9.03
In line with rumours that had been floating round James messageboards, it appears Tim Booth did play an acoustic showcase during the recent In The City festival in Manchester. The event was a joint showcase and took place at the One Central Street venue on Sunday 14th September. We hope to get more details soon from someone fortunate enough to attend the event and speak to Tim.
Update 18.9.03
Band Mad appear to be selling three James t-shirts not available on the final tour. Prices range from £15-£17.
Update 16.9.03
Speaking exclusively to fan-site Ainslieonline, Ainslie Henderson spoke of working with Mark and Saul on his new album and the suggestion that he might replace Tim in James.
Here are excerpts :
“I continued by asking if he has at any point felt in awe of working with Mark and Saul, whose music he’d grown up with
“I was at first, it took about five or six meetings to get over. They’re two of the best people, lovely supportive guys, two heroes, and to have them respect me as a singer songwriter is a real ego boost, heroes absolutely.”
With Tim having left James, did the question of Ainslie potentially replacing him ever come up?
“No! Can you imagine what the James fans would think of me?” he laughed, adding: “I’ve met Tim a couple of times, he’s a lovely man, a lovely brilliant man.”
He also revealed that he had asked Mark and Saul about the possibility of them playing in his live band, most likely a tour early next year. No indication was given as to their response. For the full interview, click here. Thanks to Dave at Ainslieonline for the information.
Update 12.9.03
Play.com are selling the Getting Away With Live DVD for £9.99 including free delivery as part of their music sale. Ideal for those of you who haven’t taken the plunge yet.
Update 29.8.03
Kulas played a night of shows at Toronto’s El Mocombo club last Thursday 23 August. He played guitar with Katie Griffin and Robbie Roth’s bands then performed his own solo set featuring Anyone Else, Star Land, Instamatic Camera, Glasgow Rain, Having and Losing It All (solo acoustic), Beautiful Day, Pavement, All The Rage, Beginning of the End and Hallelujah (solo acoustic)
Adrian Oxaal is scheduled to play another solo gig at Brighton’s Evening Star pub on Sunday October 5th.
Update 16.8.03
Tim has written the foreword for a book entitled “Vodou Shaman” by Ross Heaven which covers the subject of Haitian healing and power methods. Amazon.co.uk has a January 2004 publication date for the book.
According to Heaven’s website “In his foreword, Tim will concentrate on one of the key themes in The Way of the Houngan: the need for healing and community in the West in order to avert the sort of negativity that leads to breakdown and conflict on a personal and global scale. He will also reveal something of his own spiritual path.”
Tim has also contributed to a book called Generations where famous people “reveal the strange and beautiful truth about themselves and their grandparents” to support two charities Railway Children and Age Concern. Click here to find out more.
Update 15.8.03
The James original version of Laid is being used on UK TV trailers for the American Wedding film that is released in the cinemas here today. The film itself features a cover by new US artist Matt Nathanson. If you want to hear it follow the link to this Matt Nathanson messageboard for a radio capture of the track.
Kulas has renamed his new band The Vinyl Dolls. It appears the Dead City Radio monicker was already taken. He will continue to perform under the Kulas name until the forthcoming album is ready for release.
Update 2.8.03
James classic tune Sit Down features as the opening track on the Friends Reunited 2cd set of classic 90s songs to remember your school or university days by.
Update 31.7.03
Kulas will be performing 2 acoustic songs as part of a night of George Harrison music to raise money for The Princess Margaret Hospital and Cancer research in Toronto at the Rivoli, Friday August 8th.
Update 11.7.03
Kulas’ second album Another Small Machine is going to be released by Berlin’s United One Records and distributed in 15 countries including the UK in September
He will also be playing in Katie Griffin’s band at C’est What in Toronto on Wednesday, July 23rd and also doing a few tracks of his own. He will then be playing in Robbie Roth’s band at The Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto on Thursday, July 31st
He will then be playing a KULAS show at The Elmocambo (again in Toronto) on August 23rd.
He has also written a few original songs for director Park Bench’s new film “The Death Of Alice Blue” which will premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in September. The songs are “Sweet Lips”, “You Only Come Out At Night” and “Gothdance”.
Update 3.7.03
Mark and Saul have been confirmed as producers of Ainslie’s debut album, which he has just completed recording in France. Mixing will take place next week and the album is due for release shortly before Christmas. They have also co-written several songs on the album.
Update 2.7.03
James video for Sit Down appears on the “We Could Be Kings” DVD compilation. The DVD also features The Charlatans, The Las, The Wonder Stuff, Ocean Colour Scene, Shed Seven and more. Play.com are selling the DVD for £11.99 including delivery – simply follow this link.
Update 30.6.03
Despite the song being covered by American singer/songwriter Matt Nathanson for the soundtrack of the movie, James’ original and, of course, vastly superior version of Laid is being used for the trailer of the movie American Wedding, the third in the American Pie series of films. To watch the trailer, follow this link. Follow the link below to hear the cover.
Update 22.6.03
Kulas played a set at Toronto’s Free Times Cafe on Friday evening. He played the following tracks : Starland, Pavement, Having & Losing It All, Sleep, The Only One, Shine, Glasgow Rain, A Clever Mess, Anyone Out There, In My Life. Click here for a full review.
Update 15.6.03
Singer / songwriter Matt Nathanson is covering Laid for the soundtrack to the third instalment of the American Pie series “An American Wedding” which is released in US cinemas on August 1. The cover version will also feature on the film soundtrack out on July 15. His official site is running a campaign to get as much radio play as possible for the song in the US as it is also being released as a single.
If you want to hear it follow the link to this Matt Nathanson messageboard for a radio capture of the track.
Hopefully people will hear this version and then go away and track down the original. Laid did appear in trailers for the first two films so why they’ve brought this guy in I don’t know.
According to an article in the Southern Press, Mark and Saul have been spending time in France working with Ainslie Henderson on his debut album due out in September. The next single from the Fame Academy star is expected to be Pretty Boys and Pretty Girls which was co-written with Mark and Saul. It’s due out in late August on Mercury Records.
Update 14.6.03
Kulas is performing at a Songwriters Series at the Free Times Cafe Club on College Street in Toronto this Friday, June 20. Doors open at 8pm and these events usually sell out pretty quickly. Admission is six Canadian dollars.
Adrian Oxaal is playing another gig on Sunday 27th July at the Evening Star pub in Brighton.
Update 29.5.03
Kulas played a show at the Rivoli Club in Toronto on May 16 as part of the launch evening for the Katie Griffin CD produced by Kulas. The setlist was Anyone Else, Star Land, Instamatic Camera, Glasgow Rain, Having and Losing It All (solo acoustic), Shine (solo acoustic), Beautiful Day, Pavement, All The Rage, There’s Nothing Wrong, Beginning of the End, Sit Down. For a full review, click here.
Update 23.5.03
After the success of their nation-wide t.v. appearance on the Mike Bullard Show performing the Echo and The Bunnymen song “Killing Moon”, Kulas and Katie Griffin have been asked back tonight (Friday, live to air 7:00 p.m. and again at midnight on CTV) to perform the song with Echo and The Bunnymen frontman Ian McCulloch who will also be performing his new single with his band to promote his upcoming Toronto show.
Update 16.5.03
Tim Booth has made a statement via the James official messageboard on his current activity. He is still writing his album with KK and Lee Baker who are assisting with the production. His film script has now been optioned by two producers and he is seeking funding for the project. For a full transcription click here.
One Of The Three has conducted an exclusive interview with Michael Kulas where he talks about the highlights and lowlights of his time with James, his heros in the music business, his two solo albums, his work as a producer and his plans for his new band. Click here to read the interview in full.
Update 9.5.03
Kulas played live with Katie Griffin on the track Killing Moon on Canadian TV’s Mike Bullard Show (apparently similar to David Letterman).
Update 2.5.03
Getting Away With It featured for the second time in a matter of weeks in the Queen Vic pub in the BBC soap Eastenders. It must be the only pub in the world with Pleased To Meet You on the jukebox!
Tim Booth’s official website www.timbooth.net has been updated with the following rather curious message:
“Tim Booth’s website is not ready yet, as he hasn’t a clue what to say. He should have rediscovered the art of communication in a few months time.”
Update 22.4.03
Jade Love, the film for which Michael Kulas composed the soundtrack, recently won Best Short Film at the Toronto Film Festival.
Update 21.4.03
Kulas played an acoustic show at the Elmocambo Toronto last Thursday on April 17. The setlist was A Clever Mess, The Only One, Pavement, Starland, Having and Losing It All, Shine, Anyone Out There (featuring Katie Griffin), Laid, Hallelujah. For a full review, click here.
Kulas will be played a full band set with his new band Dead City Radio at Toronto’s Rivoli Club on May 16 as part of the launch night for Katie Griffin’s album “Kiss Me Chaos” which was produced by Kulas.
Update 13.4.03
Kulas played a show at the Oasis Lounge Toronto on April 10. The setlist was A Clever Mess, The Only One, Pavement, Starland, Anyone Out There, Shine, Eating Beets in Madoc (truncated), Having and Losing It All, Laid, Hallelujah, Glasgow Rain. For a full review, click here.
Update 9.4.03
Adrian Oxaal is playing another solo show at the Evening Star in Brighton on Sunday April 27th. For more details, click on the Evening Star website.
Update 31.3.03
Kulas is playing two solo acoustic shows in Toronto in April.
April 10 – Oasis, College Street
April 17 – Elmocambo, Spaldina
Both shows start at 9.15pm
He will also be playing a full live set at Toronto’s Rivoli on Friday May 16 as part of the launch night for Katie Griffin’s album “Kiss Me Chaos” which was produced by Kulas.
He is also continuing writing and recording with what will be a new band release this year. The band is called Dead City Radio. The album titled “American Cheerleader” will include the songs Glasgow Rain, Pavement and Starland as well as the new songs Instamatic Camera, Ghost, Something About You, Dead Rock Star, The Man That Nobody Wanted, Day and Night, Night and Day and Twenty Two.
Update 21.3.03
Larry Gott played at a local acoustic unsigned musician’s night at the Blue Cat Cafe in Heaton Moor, Stockport near Manchester last night. Since leaving James, Larry has played in several bars and clubs around Manchester either solo or with friends. Earlier this year he also played a concert in Crosby near Liverpool with one-time James associate Ed Barton.
Update 16.3.03
For those of you who haven’t bought the DVD Getting Away With It Live yet, CD-WOW are selling the Region 2 version for the bargain price of £10.99 including postage. Click here to go direct to the site.
The Ainslie Henderson version of Laid has been added to the MP3 section. His next single, due out in May, is called Pretty Boys and Pretty Girls and is co-written with Mark and Saul and described as “having a crunchy Jeff Buckley-esque guitar riff, a big groovy beat and a big shouty chorus”
Update 15.3.03
Ainslie Henderson, the James fan who Saul and Mark performed with on BBC’s Fame Academy and whose album they have been co-writing tracks for, has been performing Laid acoustically at promotional events around the country. I will try and get an mp3 uploaded in the next few days for those interested in hearing it.
Update 12.3.03
Saul and Mark produced and play on an acoustic version of Ainslie Henderson’s Keep Me A Secret on the cassette single of the same name. They have also been recently working on Ainslie’s forthcoming album.
James are actually in this week’s NME. Or at least one of their t-shirts is. Olly Knights of Turin Brakes is pictured in the review section wearing a JA-M-ES style shirt.
Update 10.3.03 pm
The MP3s of Racing Away and Down To The Sea have been added to the mp3 section of the site. I’ve also added the lyrics to Down To The Sea.
The March edition of Record Collector claims in its “In The Pipeline” section that Sanctuary Records are planning the release of a live James Best Of in the near future. There is no official word on this to date.
Update 10.3.03 am
Tim Booth appeared on the This Is Dom Joly show on the UK digital channel BBC Three last night. He sang a track called Racing Away with Horace Andy (who performed the track on the 1 Giant Leap album with Grant Lee Buffalo) with backing music by 1 Giant Leap and then a self-penned track, which Dom said was written last week, called Down To The Sea.
The program will be repeated next Friday night / Saturday morning, 15 March, at midnight for those of you in the UK with Sky, cable or Freeview. It’s well worth watching just to see Tim’s disdain for the guys in animal suits who are dancing at the end.
One Of The Three hopes to bring you mp3s of the performances very soon.
The One Giant Leap DVD which features Tim on one track is now being sold for £5.99 at CD-WOW.
Update 24.2.03
Kulas played a set at the Hershey Arena in Mississauga near Toronto on Saturday evening. Click here for a review of the show.
Update 21.2.03
Speaking to Designer Magazine, Ainsile Henderson has discussed working with Mark and Saul:
“It’s f**king amazing. They were one of my favourite bands and they’re still one of my favourite bands and the three of us are still writing together for my album. It took me a couple of days to get over the F**K factor and stop asking them about how they wrote “Sit Down” and where were you when you recorded “Made” (sic) and stop asking all these silly questions. But they’re brilliant and it’s great working with them because it’s made me feel like I’m in a band again.”
Click here to see the whole interview.
Update 17.2.03
Mark and Saul recently spent a week writing songs with Ainslie Henderson, one of the contestants in BBC’s recent Fame Academy program. The sessions are likely to have produced many of the tracks off Ainslie’s forthcoming debut album.
Take Out Time, the track Ainslie, Saul and Mark wrote during Saul and Mark’s appearance on the Fame Academy program, is featured on Ainslie’s debut single Keep Me A Secret which is released on February 24. To watch the performance on Fame Academy, click here.
Ironically, Ainslie is signed to Mercury Records.
Update 4.2.03
Today is Tim Booth’s 43rd birthday. Many Happy Returns!
Update 29.1.03
A very bald Tim Booth and “James” (Jim and Larry) feature in two interviews on the DVD release of the Factory Records film Twenty Four Hour Party People in the Pills Thrills and Bellyaches section of the extra features on disc 1.
Click here to read a transcription of the interview with Tim and here for the interview with Jim and Larry.
Update 19.1.03
Tim Booth’s June 1999 interview for ITV’s Faith and Music show is repeated in the early hours of Sunday night / Monday morning (20 Jan) at 12.20am. To read a transcript of the interview click here. The interview is interspersed with clips of James and Booth and the Bad Angel promo videos.
Update 15.1.03
Ex-James trumpeter Andy Diagram features on two tracks of Lemon Jelly’s acclaimed album Lost Horizons. He is credited with “Train sound effects” on Return To Patagonia and trumpet on Experiment Number Six.
Update 12.1.03
Larry Gott last week played a gig with vocalist Mark Curtis and James associate Edward Barton at the launch of a new bar called SixtySouth in Waterloo near Crosby. In an interview with the Crosby Herald, Larry described the music thus “our style fuses tribal, folk, jazz, classical and R + B music to create a totally unique genre”. Larry and Edward are planning to write more songs with a view to releasing an album.
Kulas has announced that he is to play again at this year’s For The Love Of Jeff Buckley tribute show on January 25 at Toronto’s Rivoli Club. He will also be opening for two well-known Canadian bands 54-40 and The Pursuit of Happiness at the 4,000-capacity Hershey Centre Arena on Saturday February 22.
He has also completed the recording session for the Katie Griffin album and will be involved in the mixing process over the next few weeks before recommencing sessions for his own forthcoming album.
The British chain store Argos have at present an in-store tape featuring a female singer covering the James single Waltzing Along amongst other songs. One Of The Three has no details as to who the vocalist and band are, but if anyone knows, please tell us.
Update 10.1.03
Update 6.1.03
Adrian Oxaal is playing another solo gig at the Evening Star pub in Brighton on Sunday 26th January. For more details check out the Evening Star website.
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