The team of Pepper 96.6 has a crazy idea:
For James to appear – unannounced – in Syntagma Square and play live as street musicians.
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Jim Glennie, bassist and founding member of the English rock band James on their upcoming gig as part of the Wider Than Pictures series at Collins Barracks.
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It’s been a whirlwind year for James. In April, they soared to the top of the UK album charts with their latest release, Yummy, and have been on relentless touring ever since. In just over a month, the nine-piece band will cross the Atlantic to embark on an extensive U.S. tour alongside the legendary Johnny Marr. But before that, they’ll be lighting up stages in Dublin, Portugal and Greece.
We recently had the pleasure of sitting down with multi-instrumentalist Saul Davies during a rare break in the band’s hectic schedule. Relaxing outdoors in the sunshine, he embodied the essence of a rockstar, sunglasses on, as he chatted with us about all things James.
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Mancunian band James are in the midst of something of a second coming. Always enthralling and consistently against the grain, the band are still best known for early ’90s smashes ‘Sit Down’ and ‘Laid’, but also for frontman Tim Booth’s staccato dancing, and a tendency to veer off into unconventional subject matter.
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Carrying on our chat with Tim Booth we continue on the early years of James with the recording of their first demo, signing to Factory Records & making their debut release with the Jimone EP in November 1983. From there Tim tells us about meeting The Smiths & playing with them at the Hacienda & subsequently touring Ireland with them & later joining the Meat Is Murder Tour in 1985. James are touring with Johnny Marr across the USA in the autumn & Tim tells us how this came about. We also hear about leaving Factory Records in 1985 & ending up on Sire Records – debut album Stutter is produced by Lenny Kaye. The follow up Strip Mine doesn’t appear until 18 months after it was recorded & we hear about that what let do these delays. We also get to ask Tim about the famous Anti Clause 28 gig with the Stone Roses at the International, signing to Rough Trade in 1989 & releasing the Gold Mother album which leads to the huge success of Come Home & Sit Down. Tim talks us through writing, releasing & re-recording Sit Down. We talk about a few of the bands bib gigs from this era including the G Mex & the roof of the Piccadilly Hotel in Manchester as well as Alton Towers in 1990 in front of 30,000 fans. The Seven album also comes out in 1990 & we touch on that & then hear about how the band met & worked with Brian Eno We move onto this year’s Yummy album – the bands first number 1 in the UK Chart & talk through some upcoming festival appearances throughout 2024.
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Tim Booth joins us this week to talk about his new book ‘When I Died For The First Time’ out now on Constable (imprint of Little Brown). We talk about his writing influences from Doris Lessing & Patti Smith to Frank Herbert & then how his experiences in James influenced his writing. We also talk in depth about James latest UK number 1 album Yummy as well as their recent appearance at Glastonbury 2024 & their other appearances they have coming up over the summer & an autumn USA tour with Johnny Marr.
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Interview with Jim Glennie and Tim Booth of James.
“We started writing new material already, and I might start on a new book soon. We’re always open to some crazy opportunity coming our way, and we’ll be like: OK, that could be good! With the Johnny Marr tour – we’ve wanted to go back to America for a while, and this is a great way to do it. It’ll be a really harmonious tour”
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Making It Up podcast interview with Tim Booth by Carter Wilson
“This week’s Making It Up is extra-special as it features Tim Booth, lead singer and lyricist of James, a British band who has been performing for over 40 years and has sold more than 25 million albums globally (James is also Carter’s absolute favorite band, making Tim one of his personal heroes). You may have seen quotes from James songs as epigraphs in many of Carter’s novels, which is how he got to know Tim. After a decade in the making, Tim’s brilliant debut novel, When I Died For the First Time, just released in the U.K. and is set for a U.S. launch in July 2024.
Among other things, Tim and Carter discuss seeking out art and culture as a kid, how improvisation and editing are large parts of Tim’s lyricism, and how having an established audience affects confidence in writing. At the end of their conversation, they make up an incredibly descriptive story using a line from David Mitchell’s Slade House.”
Tim Booth on Leeds, Late Nights with Gordon Strachan, and Will Ferrell | Football Music & Me
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“Tim Booth’s debut novel has lots of sex in it – explicit sex – from a tryst between a debauched rock star and a young pop diva on a circular waterbed to a very saucy encounter beneath a Marie Antoinette skirt at a masked ball..”
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In this interview, Tim discusses the writing and recording of YUMMY, upcoming live shows writing his first novel and lots more
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