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BBC Radio 2 Zoe Ball Session – 28th June 2024

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Life's A Shocking Miracle / Sit Down / Be The One

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A live session from the BBC Radio 2 tent at Glastonbury Festival including a cover of Dua Lipa’s Be The One (that night’s festival headliner).

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Lisbon Rock In Rio Festival – 22nd June 2024

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Sound / Laid / Life's A Fucking Miracle / Mobile God / She's A Star / Out To Get You / Shadow Of A Giant / Way Over Your Head / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Beautiful Beaches / Sometimes / Come Home

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Clash – “We Love Being The Underdog!” James Interviewed

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Clash | Robin Murray | 21st May 2024

“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 – Tim Booth Interview With Carter Wilson

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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.”

Daily Telegraph – Tim Booth from James interview: ‘You’re not famous if it doesn’t go to your head’

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Daily Telegraph | Chris Harvey | 10th May 2024

“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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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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