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Daily Mail – James singer Tim Booth reveals how falling in love with his Shamanic healer wife saved him after cheating death: 'I challenged myself to find a purpose in life or I was going to check out early'

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Daily Mail | Joanna Crawley | 29th April 2024

James singer Tim Booth has revealed how falling in love with his wife Kate Shela at first sight gave his life a purpose after he almost died from a childhood liver disease.

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Virgin Radio – ‘We’re an album band’ - James break down their number one record, Yummy, track-by-track

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Virgin Radio | Eddy Temple-Morris | 22nd April 2024

“I think it’s something perhaps people don’t focus on so much nowadays, with the making of a record, is the thing as an entirety. It’s more like, ‘Where’s your focus track, and let’s pour the energy into that.’ But we’re still old school in that respect, we want it to sound like an hour and a quarter’s worth of music that takes you on a journey, that connects, almost like a set list.”

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ITV News – Manchester band James celebrate first Number One studio album with 'Yummy'

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ITV News | 20th April 2024

“We are not a 90s band, a heritage band – we are a restless band of artists who keep on challenging ourselves. Our new albums are as good as our old as we hope this will testify. Because we are older, our new music tends to get less attention than we would’ve done when we were young.”

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Daily Mirror – Legendary band James score first number one album and 'put a crack in the glass ceiling of ageism'

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Daily Mirror | Tom Bryant | 19th April 2024

“The Velvet Underground never sold more than 20,000 copies in their ­lifetime. The aim was to make great music – focus on the music, not the numbers and eventually the people will come. Then we broke big and we watched Sit Down hover at No2 for weeks. We realised to other people it was upsetting that we didn’t make No1. Years later, in compilation shows, only the No1s were chosen as the great songs of the era and it p***** us off. We’ve had many twos and threes but only a No1 compilation album, which is cheating.”

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Total Ntertainment – TotalNtertainment Chats with James Guitarist Saul Davies

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Total Ntertainment | Review | 16th April 2024

Ahead of the release of their eighteenth studio album, James guitarist Saul Davies chatted to TotalNtertainment about how the band have not only actively swerved turning into a “Greatest Hits” band but still as excited and fired-up to write new music. In this interview, Saul also talks about how their relationships with each other have changed over the four decades they have been a band, the special connection they have with their fans and his thoughts on their new album ‘Yummy’.

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