Setlist
Falling Down / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Born Of FrustrationDetails
- Venue: BBC Television Studios, London, UK
- Date: 18th May 2001
Later With Jools – 18th May 2001
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Spin Website News
My excitement here is genuine. I promise you that, sweet reader. A super band, James, is finally going to release a new studio album, Pleased To Meet You, July 2 in the U.K. And yes, once again, Brian Eno is behind the boards. There is no U.S. release date planned at present. The band’s last album, Millionaires, never came out here either. Criminal. This new record will be the 11th studio album to come from these crazy Brits. According to all kinds of fun messages on the band’s website, James will first release a single from the record called “Getting Away with It (All Messed Up),” due out in the U.K. only on June 25. You can visit the band’s website to hear another new track, “Finer,” which is actually a remix of the new album track, “Fine” (mixed by James drummer Dave Baynton-Power). In related news, back in January there was talk of a forthcoming James b-sides album, which the site said was to be called Now That’s What I Call B-Sides Vol. 1. At the time, we were told that the details were nearly finalized and that the album was to come out later this year, and feature 20 tracks, including, “Gone Too Far,” “China Girl,” and “Van Gogh’s Dog.” We have heard nothing about it since. In other related news, James is scheduled to play a handful of U.K. festivals this summer, including T in the Park this July in Scotland, the Guildford Live festival in August in Nottingham, and the City in the Park festival in August, also in Nottingham (with Bryan Adams!). Here’s the tracklisting to Pleased To Meet You.
1. Space
2. Falling Down
3. English Beefcake
4. Junky
5. Pleased To Meet You
6. The Shining
7. Senorita
8. Gaudi
9. What Is It Good For
10. Give It Away
11. Fine
12. Getting Away With It
13. Alaskan Pipeline
Ananova News
James are set to release their 11th studio album, Pleased To Meet You, on July 2.
It will be preceded by the single, Getting Away With It (All Messed Up), on June 25.
The band have also announced two live gigs in addition to their summer festival schedule.
They will play the Grimsby Auditorium on July 6, and Liverpool King’s Dock on July 8.
James will also appear at the T In The Park festival on Scotland on July 7, the Guildford Live festival on August 4, and as special guests of Bryan Adams at the City In The Park festival at Wollaton Park, Nottingham, on August 25.
Later With Jools Interview
Tim Booth was interviewed by Jools Holland during the recording session for Later. You can view the interview in Real Video at the Later website. But for those who don’t have that facility, here is a transcription.
Can you talk about the inspiration behind the song Falling Down?
The first song I think we’re now doing is Falling Down, which was a jam we did with Brian Eno, just messing around and we gave it to an engineer we had with us called KK, who’s a whizz and is going to be a very famous producer I think one day and he just chopped it up and none of us thought much about it for about a week and then he handed me a CD and it just sounded fantastic. He’d chopped up the jam and put it back together again. So I resang a vocal and eventually we presented it to the rest of the band and people were a bit slow to catch on that it was a really great song. But eventually it came through. That’s its history.
Lyrically, I’m not sure what it’s about, it’s about some mad, strange, eccentric woman who’s coming into her power. “Baby’s on the lamb tonight”, on the lamb means on the run, prison jargon, “her sky’s all full of stars and love’s just something that always goes wrong, it looks and smokes like Eva Gardner” And it’s kind of this woman, you can see her, she’s almost like that, what’s that hitchhiker , the girl from Even Cowgirls Get The Blues, that kind of free spirit. That was the only idea I got when I was writing the lyrics. It kept on coming like that.
Are there times when you express yourself better through music than in everyday life?
I try and keep them as unconscious as possible. And often they’ll tell me lots of things, either about what’s just gone on or what’s to come. I wrote a very strange lyric, improvised a lyric a number of years ago, didn’t touch it, came back to it, improvised the second half of it, put the two pieces together and it was a song about a guy going off into the mountains and committing suicide in the snow, lying down in the snow, very clear and very peaceful decision on his part. And two days after we recorded and cut the record, the person I was living with, her mentor went and killed himself in that way. And they played the song at his funeral. And things like that happen quite a lot with lyrics I find.
Tell us about singing (or not) for Joan Baez?
I do a lot of workshops. I teach ecstastic dance, taking people into trance states without drugs and I was at a workshop of a woman who trained me, she’s kind of a New York shaman and Joan Baez was at the workshop. This was in California. It was about a ten day workshop and Gabrielle had said to me, the leader of the workshop, that she wanted me to sing some songs. I got a few people together to do some music and each day we’d come in and say “Do you want us to do it now?” but the workshop was really theraputic and intense and never suitable. People were actually in too deep powerful states to sing a song. And so this went on for a week, where we got ready to do a song and it never happened.
The last day, the last morning of the workshop, the musicians had given up bringing their instruments in and Gabrielle told us this huge spiel honouring Joan Baez to the hundreds of people in the workshop saying “Before Dylan, before God, before Jesus, before Buddha, was Joan Baez” and she does this fantastic thing honouring her for what she did in the sixties and her protest movement and at the end of it she said “And the only gift I can think to offer you is that Tim will sing you a song” I kind of like died on the spot. It was like “oh my God” It was the worst kind of drumroll for a singer to take the stand that I’d ever had. I pulled it off, magnificently of course.
What’s it like to play with other musicians (and the audience) so close to you, watching your every move?
When there’s an audience, I sing to a group of people. I can’t remember the cameras and it’s not always best on camera. You know, you want to look a little bit more minimal, and cool and edgy. And where there’s people, it’s great, there’s people. And it’s just very different.
But it’s like I tend to use people at our concerts. If I’m like getting insecure and having a bad gig, I’ll look for someone who’s really enjoying it and sing to them and they tend to give me the lift and save me from my voices, the critic voices that plague any creative person and that’s been a technique that I’ve used for years.
Keeping Up With James – Channel 4 Teletext
James return on July 2 with new album Pleased To Meet You, produced by Brian Eno. It’s preceded a week earlier by the Getting Away With It single.
The band previewed songs on last year’s theatre tour, recording the 13 tracks as a live band rather than their usual method of letting songs grow from studio jams.
They play T In The Park in July, then with Bryan Adams and Johnathan Wilkes at Nottingham Woolaton on August 25.
Mojo Interview With Brian Eno – Excerpt
Mojo : On early recordings, production was largely a matter of microphone placement and room ambience. What are the factors you consider most important in recording today?
Eno : Well, funnily enough, exactly those same factors! On the new James record, we decided to try something which nobody’s done for many years – which is, write all the songs, rehearse them, get the structures right, then play them live in front of people, and only then record them. When did you last hear of a band doing that, other than on their first album? I chose a brilliant old-school engineer, Gary Langan, who’s fabulous. The result was that we got a recording where you can just sit at the desk and push the faders up in a straight line, and it sounds fucking great!
I suppose that’s the reason why we had all those new songs being played live on the last tour. The reasons bands generally don’t do it is because of bootlegging. Pink Floyd did that before Dark Side of the Moon, and it was bootlegged to the last.
James Added To City In The Park Bill – City In The Park Website
Daybrook House Promotions (DHP) is proud to announce James to play at this years City in the Park. They will be supporting international rock star Bryan Adams. The show will take place on Saturday 25th August Bank Holiday weekend (subject to license).
They have joined the list of stars who have played Nottingham’s annual rock and pop festival. Last year saw pop stars All Saints and Ronan Keating performing to over 20,000 fans on the hottest day of the year and over 30,000 saw the Irish phenomenon The Corrs in 1999.
Musical history is littered with bands who have briefly blazed brightly, to sink prematurely into depressing mediocrity as they repeat themselves with ever-diminishing effect. The path James have forged has taken the band in exactly the opposite direction. Endlessly inventive and always taking risks, James have never been satisfied with the easy option. Digging deep into the wellspring of their creativity they released last years Millionaires – the most adventurous and rewarding album of their roller-coaster 16 year career.
The summer’s day long event organised by DHP will include several other high profile artists, as well as other attractions such as street theatre and funfairs to make this a day out for the whole family.
Wollaton Park is the perfect setting for such an event, with the backdrop of the historical 16th century hall, within the grounds of its natural amphitheatre. The location makes for a breathtaking setting with perfect views from all areas of the ten-acre enclosure.
Says Director Andy Copping “We are in discussions with some big name acts to join the bill, it will be an all-day event and we plan to make the entertainment second to none.”
DHP who own several Nottingham venues, including the award winning Rock City, have staged numerous events at Wollaton Park. City in the Park is now on the maib calendar of UK summer festivals and will see many more fantastic acts brought to Nottingham over future years.
This event is subject to license being granted.
Ananova News : James New Album Is Their Best Yet
Brian Eno claims the new James album is the best the group has made.
The producer says many of the tracks were recorded virtually live, with few overdubs.
Space is due out in the summer, and will feature some of the songs previewed on the last James tour.
Eno told NME.COM: “The whole idea was to try to make an album in what is actually a rather old-fashioned way – start with the songs written and properly structured, play them live and record them.
“It’s very regressive in a way, saying, ‘Let’s go back to making a record that records a band at its peak’.”
He added: “I think it’s the best record they’ve made. The standard is so high on every song. There’s nothing where you think it could’ve been better. We’ve got too many good songs, more good songs than we can put on the record.”
NME News : Space, The Final Frontier
BRIAN ENO has granted NME.COM an exclusive preview of the new JAMES album, provisionally entitled ‘SPACE’. Due out in the summer, the album, which ENO describes as “the best they’ve made”, will feature 11 or 12 tracks, many of which were recorded virtually live.
“They’re all complete takes,” said Eno, “there’s very few repairs done, hardly any overdubs. The whole idea was to try to make an album in what is actually a rather old-fashioned way: start with the songs written and properly structured, play them live and record them. It’s very regressive in a way, saying, ‘Let’s go back to making a record that records a band at its peak.'”
More subtle than previous outings, but no less tuneful, tracks previewed to NME.COM included ‘Space’, ‘Falling Down’, ‘Saving Grace’, ‘Give It Away’, ‘Coffee And Toast’, ‘Fine’, ‘Gaudi’, ‘Junkie’ and ‘The Shining’, many of which were previewed on James’ 2000 winter tour. The album, which had a previous working title of ‘We Want Our Money Back’, is expected to also feature a number of slower songs.
“They’re like a band reborn somehow,” said Eno. “It’s like when people make their first album they’re full of enthusiasm and excitement and they know what they’re doing and it’s a pleasure. This was like making a first album. I think it’s the best record they’ve made. The standard is so high on every song. There’s nothing where you think it could’ve been better. We’ve got too many good songs, more good songs than we can put on the record.”
Eno also gave the thumbs up to his ex-Roxy Music bandmates, as they prepare to reform the band without Eno. He said: “I’m jubilant. I think it’s fine that they’re doing it, but I don’t like the idea of doing something again. How can it not be compared to the past? It’s not my thing. I’m happy that they’re doing it and good for them, but it’s not my thing.”
Exclusive Larry Gott Interview With One Of The Three
Very special thanks to Larry for agreeing to do this – once a gent, always a gent.
Larry, since leaving James in 1995, your activities have been subject to various rumours and speculation such as that you’d retired to Ireland to become a carpenter, that you were still writing material for the band and were simply taking a break, that you were teaching guitar in Manchester – what have you been doing?
All of these have a basis in truth but none of them tell the true story. I worked on the Whiplash album up until the final mixes, both writing and playing. The last track I worked on was ‘She’s a Star’, which was a nice note to end on because its such a cracking track and because I’m particularly proud of the slide intro.
Both during and after this time I spent a lot of time in my Irish house. It’s fairly remote, no TV, no phone. I used to go there to get away from the madness of James after endless touring. I thought of moving there, but, whilst good for relaxing, it couldn’t have sustained my new life fully. The carpenter thing was a reference to my desire to design and make furniture, which is what I intended to do either here or eventually in Ireland.
To achieve this desire I decided I needed to study Art and Design in a formal context. This was something I had never done as I had left school at 14 and was self-taught on the guitar. This turned out to be the right path; the course and tutors were a great inspiration to me. They challenged my rather romantic idea of furniture making and made me look at the wider issue of design as an intellectual, creative, practical and philosophical discipline. It’s as a direct result of this that I have met with such success as a designer.
I had considered the possibility of teaching as a supplement to my songwriting income if times got hard. Thanks to the success of the ‘Best Of’ album and remix of Sit Down that necessity never arose.
How much of a culture shock was there going from touring and playing to four-figure crowds to going back into education?
There were a couple of years between my last gig at Woodstock 2 (damn site more than 4 figures!) and entering education so the shock wasn’t that great. Education is diverse and stimulating, I kept my own timetable and pretty much pleased myself so it wasn’t like work in that respect.
Were your fellow students aware of your past – there must have been one of two James fans on your course? Do you still get recognised when you are out and about in Manchester?
It was important to me that people got to know me as just another student first so I kept my past hidden as best I could. When people know about the “ex pop star” bit they tend to prejudge you and you have to work hard to fit in. This was hard enough anyway, being 20 years older than most.
Slowly the students became aware of it, some heard rumours, some recognised me or heard from friends. On the whole they were all pretty cool about it I’m glad to say. Surprisingly some didn’t find out until the very end.
The James fans on the course respected my wish for this casual anonymity for which I am grateful. One, I have discovered, even defended me in a discussion on a James bulletin board, thanks Si.
You use your first name James rather than Larry now in your design work. Was this a conscious decision in order to distance yourself from being known as “Larry Gott, ex-James”?
Yes it was, I suppose it goes back to what I said earlier about peoples pre-conceptions. When I first exhibited my designs in London I wanted the work to stand alone, to be judged entirely on its own merits and that is exactly what happened. The design awards that I have won have been for the work, not because of my past.
However when the press etc got to know of my past success as a result of the present success, then things got really interesting. The emphasis had changed from ‘pop star becomes designer’ to ‘award winning designer was a pop star’ the tense is important here. I realised that this was a newsworthy story that could help me promote my designs and myself as a designer.
Has the band connection helped, been a hindrance or had no effect at all?
The band connection obviously has an effect on how people view me and my work whether it has a positive or negative effect, who knows?
As someone whose knowledge of furniture extends to assembling IKEA prepacks, could you describe your furniture designs to the uninitiated?
It’s interesting that you should use IKEA as the benchmark for your knowledge of design and your making skills, it’s a good one to use. (Most people think that design is lawrence swelling bowel and his pals changing rooms). The fact that virtually anyone with a little patience and a few simple tools can build a piece of furniture is a testament to the designer’s skill within IKEA’s philosophy.
Design is not simply a matter of producing a nice looking piece of furniture. It is more akin to a three-dimensional chess game where one small move or change affects the whole outcome.
You chose a piece from IKEA because you liked it and it was cheap. It was cheap because you assembled it, yes, but it was also cheap because it came in a flatpack which takes up no room at all in a warehouse or on a truck or on a boat so the transport costs are low. Less transport means less pollution and road congestion. It will probably be made from chipboard which is a recycled waste product saving trees. All these things enrich our lives not just the nice piece of furniture we buy at the end.
All of these elements are considered important to the designer who seeks out new ways, better ways of say, making a chair. By employing my skill,experience, improvisation, research, creativity and lateral thinking I hope to find interesting solutions to the problems of modern living. The pieces i have designed so far go some way to addressing this but I have a long way to go yet.
It’s been reported that you have won several awards for your design work to date. What awards have you won and where have you exhibited and sold your designs to date?
I have been given two major awards so far.
The first was at an exhibition held in june 2000 at the Business Design Centre in Islington. It was called ‘New Designers’ which basically is the pick of the design graduates from that year. The award given was the ‘Allermuir Furniture for Manufacture Award’
The second was the ‘100% Design/Blueprint judges special award for creativity’. This was at the 100% Design Show held at Earls Court in October 2000. This is a major international furniture show and so the award was all the more unexpected as the competition consisted of the world’s leading designers and manufacturers. My design was made by me in the college workshop, so you can imagine my surprise when it was announced.
Although I have exhibited my work around the country I haven’t really been concentrating on that or on selling my work to individuals. I prefer to sell my designs to manufacturers etc as I believe that good design should be available to all & not be the preserve of the rich.
What are your plans for the future of your work and are we likely to see your designs available in the shops?
At present I am working with a wire manufacturer who is producing some of my designs for sale in the Conran shops in London, Paris and New York, available in the next month or so. We are also trying to get the design into other stores worldwide and also into the cafe bar market. I want to see it on the streets of the world’s cities, but first Manchester.
One of my other designs is being prototyped in Poland for Habitat and should be in their autumn/winter range.
You were spotted handing a CDR to Saul at the Nynex gig aftershow in December 1999 – are you still writing material and playing locally around Manchester?
Ah yes the cd I gave to Saul!! I’ve seen references to this before and laughed. Sorry to disappoint you all but it was just a bootleg copy of one of our mutual faves that he had lost. Just a cheapskate xmas pressie I’m afraid.
With regard to playing locally I think that this is rather a loaded question. I am aware of the questions raised on the band website about this. I can’t fart without you lot getting to hear about it can I?
Yes I have sat in at a handful of gigs with a kind of anarchic scratch/jam band who already had a regular gig in a cellar bar in Manchester. My first gigs since leaving James. The band doesn’t have a strict line-up or set songs, very much like early James in that respect. They are a combination of bass/drums/scratch dj /dijeridoo/human beat-box/haunting blues vox and myself and another on guitars and effects, a very eclectic mix of styles & musical cultures that the audience loved and, I have to admit, so did I.
Are you still in regular contact with the other members of James?
No not really. On the whole they are an ignorant set of bastards who don’t even invite me to gigs. We haven’t fallen out or anything it’s just that James have always been like that. Just ask Andy.
You were acknowledged by Tim at the comeback gig at the Leadmill in January 1997. How did it feel that night watching the band you’d been at the heart of for 12 years playing songs that you’d written?
Awful!! Very nervous and anxious about everything. Couldn’t really concentrate, all I could do was pick holes in it. I really felt for Adrian, I wouldn’t have liked Paul to have been in the audience when I first replaced him. I nearly died when Tim invited me onstage for the encore, as if the situation wasn’t Spinal Tap enough without that old showbiz crap. Then he asked me again because Adrian didn’t know the chords to Johnny Yen, poor lad, how embarrassing for both of us.
And now? 2002 will be James 20th anniversary – if there are shows planned to celebrate this, would you consider rejoining the band on a one-off basis for these?
I think that all of the ex members should do a gig together, there’s enough of us now. That would be far more interesting.
When the history of rock music is being written in future, how would like the entry for James Lawrence Gott to read?
Your comment “a red in an ocean of blue” would be nice although I think Mark Ribot already has that entry.
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Oneofthethree.co.uk – Newsreel – 2001
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Update 26.12.01
The official James website has an exclusive download of a remix of Fine from the Pleased To Meet You album by Mark Hunter (Chunney Lad). The file is in mp3 format.
Tim Booth’s own website – www.timbooth.net – will now not be up and running until the New Year as opposed to December as was announced in his departure statement.
Update 21.12.01
T-shirts and other merchandise from James recent tour should be available on the official merchandise site www.bandmad.com early in the New Year. It was originally scheduled to be available from last Monday, but was delayed.
Update 14.12.01
Website Ananova has reported that the DVD of the Manchester show is due for a February release. As yet there has however been no official release date publicised.
Update 12.12.01
The two solo albums – Mosquito and Another Small Machine – are now available again to buy from Opal Music for £10.95 each.
Andy Diagram’s band The Spaceheads are on tour in Europe over the next couple of months. Dates confirmed so far are :
December 14 – Nijmegen Extrapol, Netherlands
December 15 – Brussels Action Against Euro Summit – contact novacinema@village.uunet.be for further info
December 16th – Louvain Le Neuve, Belgium
January 12th – Micro Music Theatre, Athens, Greece
February 1st – Espace Julien, Marseille, France
February 20th – Nouveau Casino, Paris, France
February 21st – Lune des Pirates, Amiens, France
Click here for the Spaceheads website
Update 11.12.01
James played an emotional final show with Tim Booth at Wembley Arena last night to a crowd of about 10,000 people. The set included guest appearances by Andy Diagram, Larry Gott and Brian Eno.
The setlist was as follows : Laid, Waltzing Along, Tomorrow, She’s A Star, I Know What I’m Here For, God Only Knows, Protect Me, Out To Get You, Hymn From A Village, Someone’s Got It In For Me, Getting Away With It (All Messed Up), English Beefcake, Sometimes, Johnny Yen, Born of Frustration, Ring The Bells / Top Of The World, Sound / Come Home, Sit Down
For a review click here
Update 9.12.01
The b-sides compilation Ultra failed to reach this week’s Top 75 album chart.
Update 8.12.01
Jim Glennie has announced in a statement that James intend to continue following Tim’s departure.
James played Thursday night at Birmingham NEC to a crowd of about 6,000 people. The setlist ran as follows:
Say Something, Waltzing Along, Laid, I Know What I’m Here For, English Beefcake, God Only Knows, Protect Me (acoustic), Getting Away With It (All Messed Up), Stutter, Vervaceous, She’s A Star, Born of Frustration, Come Home, Tomorrow / Top Of The World, Sound / Out To Get You, Sit Down
For a review click here
The following night, James played a triumphant homecoming show in Manchester in front of a sell-out crowd of 16,000. Ex-band members Larry Gott and Andy Diagram made guest appearances.
The show was filmed for a DVD release early in the new year.
The setlist ran as follows :
Say Something, Waltzing Along, Sometimes, Laid, I Know What I’m Here For, God Only Knows, Someone’s Got It In For Me, Vervaceous, Protect Me (acoustic), Out To Get You, Hymn From A Village, Johnny Yen, Getting Away With It (All Messed Up), Tomorrow, Born of Frustration, Ring The Bells / Top Of The World, Sound / Space, She’s A Star, Come Home, Sit Down
For a review click here.
Update 5.12.01 pm
James setlist at Newcastle last night ran as follows : Say Something, Waltzing Along, Sometimes, Laid, I Know What I’m Here For, God Only Knows, Protect Me (acoustic), Walking The Ghost, Hymn From A Village, Tomorrow, Space, Born of Frustration, Getting Away With It (All Messed Up), Destiny Calling, Ring The Bells / Someone’s Got It In For Me, Sound / Out To Get You, Sit Down.
Andy Diagram did not perform at the show, but is reported to be appearing at all the remaining shows on the tour.
Update 5.12.01 am
Tim has answered some fan questions on the official James website
James played their third date of their tour last night at the Telewest Arena in Newcastle.
The setlist included Hymn From A Village, not played since 1994 at least if my memory serves me correctly, and Someone’s Got It In For Me. Full setlist to come.
Did you go? If so, we’re looking for reviews – email to oneofthethree@hotmail.com – there’s a prize for the best review on the tour.
Below are a couple of pictures of shirts available on the tour – prices for both are £15 and there’s a skinny version of the “face” shirt
Musicroom are selling a new Best Of James songbook featuring chords and lyrics to 29 classic James tracks from the Best Of, Millionaires and Pleased To Meet You.
The tracks are : Born of Frustration, Come Home, Crash, Destiny Calling, English Beefcake, Getting Away With It (All Messed Up), Homeboy, How Was It For You?, Hymn From A Village, I Know What I’m Here For, Just Like Fred Astaire, Lose Control, Out To Get You, Pleased To Meet You, Ring The Bells, Runaground, Say Something, Senorita, Seven, She’s A Star, The Shining, Sit Down, Sometimes, Sound, Strangers, Tomorrow, Waltzing Along, We’re Going To Miss You
Update 4.12.01 am
Early reports from James gig last night at Leeds University show that James played a very similar setlist to the Brighton show, without any guest appearances, but including I Defeat (which Tim said they’d never played before – Hereford and Glasgow in 1998 spring to mind), Waltzing Along and Top Of The World.
Click here for reviews of the show – if you were there, send me a review to oneofthethree@hotmail.com. There’s a prize for the best review.
Update 3.12.01 pm
Today saw the release of the James B-Sides Ultra and the re-release of remastered versions of the Gold Mother, Seven, Laid and Whiplash. The stand out track of the extra tracks has to be the previously unreleased Mark Hunter remixed Say Something (The Saying Nothing Remix). Early reports suggest many people are having difficulty getting hold of them.
Update 3.12.01 am
James opened their final UK tour with Tim Booth at the Brighton Centre last night. The setlist consisted of :
Say Something, Sometimes, Laid, Senorita, English Beefcake, Getting Away With It (All Messed Up), She’s A Star, Space, Vervaceous, Johnny Yen, Come Home, God Only Knows, Born of Frustration, Ring The Bells / Protect Me (acoustic), Tomorrow, Sound / Out To Get You, Sit Down
Click here for a review of the show
The show also saw a new tour programme featuring new pictures, a gigography, fans reminiscing about James and the sleevenotes to the remastered albums. There was also an extensive selection of new t-shirts including James written in the shape of a face, the classic JA-M-ES shirts, a University of Manchester shirt with the James flower in place of the logo, a 3D style flower logo, a sweatshirt with a small daisy on the front and several vests / skinny tops based around the flower. Mugs and the Folklore book were also available.
Update 26.11.01
James have just completed three dates on their Iberian tour in Madrid, Lisbon and Porto. For fan reviews as submitted, please check the tour section.
Rumours on the official James chatboard suggest that ex-band members Larry Gott and Andy Diagram WILL be appearing at certain shows on the upcoming UK tour – Larry in Manchester only and Andy at all shows except Leeds and Birmingham, although there has been no official confirmation.
Michael Kulas has just completed a recording session for his first post-James album at Lendalfoot in Scotland. The official Kulas website has thirty-second samples of four songs from these session.
Update 16.11.01
A James aftershow party has been arranged by the website www.aftershow.co.uk for immediately after the Manchester Arena show on Friday December 7. The party is at the Quay Bar in Castlefields – advance tickets are £6 plus booking fee from Piccadilly Box Office on 0161-832-111 or www.ticketline.co.uk. The party also includes a DJ set by Dave Haslam. Click here to see more details from the press release
Update 13.11.01
James B-sides album called Ultra will be released on Monday December 3 in the UK on Fontana.
The tracklisting for the album is
Gone Too Far, Honest Pleasure, Sunday Morning, China Girl, Still Alive, The Lake, I Defeat, Goalies Ball, Chunney Chops, Tonight, Dreaming Up Tomorrow, William Burroughs, Assassin, Stolen Horse, Undertaker, Egoiste, Van Gogh’s Dog, Where You Gonna Run?
This album is in addition to the four remastered albums with extra tracks due for release on the same day
Click here to view/order at Amazon :
Ultra £9.99 ex postage
Gold Mother £7.99 ex postage – bonus tracks : Hang On, Crescendo, Come Home (Skunk Weed Skank Mix), Lose Control (live), Sit Down (live)
Seven £7.99 ex postage – bonus tracks : Protect Me (Acoustic Live), Sound (live), Heavens (live), Don’t Wait That Long (live)
Laid £7.99 ex postage – bonus tracks : Laid (live), Sometimes (live), Five-O (live), Say Something (remix)
Whiplash £7.99 ex postage – bonus tracks : Lost A Friend (live), Greenpeace (live), Homeboy (live), Waltzing Along (Flytronix Mix)
Update 11.11.01
According to Kulas Online, Michael is presently writing songs for his next album, due out next year. He will not be replacing Tim in James and will not be part of any post-Tim incarnation of James.
Update 7.11.01
Several people have asked about how to get tickets for November’s Portuguese shows – Lisbon Coliseum on November 23, Porto Coliseum on November 24.
Taking a look at the web, there’s a phone line for a company called SIC.24 that has the Lisbon show on their website – http://ondaticket.siconline.pt/. Their telephone number is 00351 21 417 3111. I hope someone there speaks English because the site’s totally in Portuguese!
There seem to be another number as well : Ticketline (Lisbon) 00351 21 712 03 00
I presume one of these would give you a number for Porto as well.
For the Madrid show at La Riviera on November 22, this site gives you details of the show and allows you to order on-line for collection on the day from the venue. It even allows you to do this in English if you click the button in the top left hand corner. To phone for tickets, use the number 0034 902 15 00 25 from the site to reserve your tickets.
In Tim’s interview with Channel 4 teletext he revealed he hopes to have some music out in April 2002 – watch this space for more details.
Turin Brakes, previously announced as support for James UK tour, will now not be appearing at the Leeds University show on December 3rd. They will still appear at all other shows. Replacements have not yet been announced.
A Portuguese band called Plastica, who Tim met during James festival performances in Portugal in May 2000, will be supporting James on their two Portuguese dates in Lisbon and Portugal.
Update 5.11.01
According to US website www.sirencd.com, Mercury are re-issuing four classic James albums with extra tracks on December 3.
The albums with the extra tracks are as follows:
Gold Mother – plus Come Home (Skunk Weed Skank Mix), Lose Control (live), Sit Down (live), Gold Mother (Warp Remix)
Seven – plus Protect Me (Acoustic Live), Sound (live), Heavens (live), Don’t Wait That Long (live)
Laid – plus Laid (live), Sometimes (live), Five-O (live), Say Something (remix)
Whiplash – plus Lost A Friend (live), Greenpeace (live), Homeboy (live), Waltzing Along (Flytronix Mix)
I assume that the live tracks on Gold Mother are from the G-Mex 1990 show, the Seven tracks are from the Seven live video, the Laid tracks from the Radio 1 James Day and the Whiplash tracks from the Radio 1 Mark Radcliffe session (Lost A Friend) and the Shepherds Bush Empire Radio 1 show from March 1997.
Not very inspired choices for extra tracks when we have a surfeit of b-sides and acoustic radio session tracks….
More as it gets confirmed.
Update 30.10.01
Tim Booth will be doing an interview with Channel 4 teletext – index page 450 tomorrow, 31st October
Update 29.10.01
Tim Booth has announced his intention to leave James at the end of their UK December tour. More details including a full statement to the fans and press release here.
He also indicated that Larry Gott and Andy Diagram will be joining the band at some point during the tour.
Update 28.10.01
Tim and Saul will be presenting an award at tomorrow’s Q Awards in London. Watch out for Channel 4’s broadcast next week to catch a glimpse of the boys.
Update 18.10.01
An extra date has been added to James December UK tour – they will now be playing Leeds University on Monday December 3rd.
Update 13.10.01
With Ben Folds cancelling his support slots on the December UK tour, Turin Brakes have stepped into the breach.
Update 27.9.01
James have announced three Iberian dates for late November ahead of their UK arena tour
November 22 – Madrid La Riviera
November 23 – Lisbon Coliseum
November 24 – Oporto Coliseum
Update 26.9.01
Despite James and Mercury going their separate ways at the end of their contract, there are still plans to release the b-sides album Now That’s What I Call B Sides Vol 1 through Mercury before the end of the year. Tracklisting and a release date are still not finalised.
There is still no news on any progress in James attempts at getting a new contract with a new label.
Update 6.9.01
James have announced their amicable departure from Mercury Records following the completion of their contract with the album Pleased To Meet You. No news yet as to what happens next….. Click here for the press release.
Update 21.8.01
According to Playlouder.com, James have been “released from their contract” by Mercury. Actually, Pleased to Meet You was James’ last album on their present contract, but as usual, the press never let the truth get in the way of an excuse to diss the band. More to come, no doubt…..
Update 7.8.01
James headlined the Benicassim Festival in Spain on Friday night with the show broadcast live on Spanish radio. They then flew back to the UK to headline the Guildford Festival – click here for reviews – on Saturday, before an early evening slot at Dublin’s Witness Festival on Sunday where they also performed in the acoustic tent.
Tim hinted at the Witnness Festival that English Beefcake may be the next single off the Pleased To Meet You album.
Update 1.8.01
Pleased To Meet You has dropped out of the Top 75 albums after only three weeks on the chart.
Update 31.7.01
Band-Mad, the new James merchandising company has increased its range of James merchandise, including some shirts on special offer at £5 and a jacket at £15, along with all the new Pleased To Meet You merchandise.
James On Line, Mercury’s James site has a new section with an eight minute video of studio footage of the recording of the Pleased To Meet You album, including an exclusive version of English Beefcake.
Update 26.7.01
Pleased To Meet You slumped to number 47 in the album charts in its third week of release.
Strange Dancing – The Early Years, the Warner compilation of early James material, is now due for release on August 20. Regular readers will no doubt take this with a pinch of salt and see it when they believe it!
Rumour has it that Orbital have been approached to remix Falling Down for a potential future release.
Update 23.7.01
Strange Dancing appears to have been deleted from the catalogue at HMV which would suggest the release has been delayed or cancelled. No word from Warners on this (turn the clock back fourteen years or so and it’s a case of deja vu)
Update 18.7.01
James on line merchandise is now on sale at www.bandmad.com. Only new t-shirts debuted at the recent shows (don’t get too excited, they’re not that great or cheap) are available at present.
Click here to see One Of The Three’s archive of James t-shirts
Update 16.7.01
James have parted company with Blue Grape, their merchandising company, and are presently in negotiation with an as yet unnamed company to take over the manufacture and sale of James merchandise.
Pleased To Meet You dropped out of the Top 20 album chart this week, plummeting to Number 29. Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) dropped to number 69 in the singles charts
Update 13.7.01
Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) dropped to number 48 in the UK single charts last week after entering at 22 the week before despite the band’s appearance on Top of the Pops.
Update 12.7.01
Tim held a forty-minute webchat at Dotmusic.com this evening – click here to see a transcript
According to Tim at Sunday’s Liverpool show, Falling Down will be the next single from the album Pleased To Meet You.
A promotional condom was issued to promote the Pleased To Meet You album. A picture of the box can be found below. A case of poor old Johnny yen?
Update 8.7.01
Pleased To Meet You reached a disappointing number 11 in the album charts.
Virgin Megastores in the UK are offering a free poster with all purchases of Pleased To Meet You whilst stocks last. V Shop / Our Price are offering Laid for £4.99 with CD purchases of the album.
James are to play the Electron Festival in Athens, Greece on September 21.
The international release dates for Pleased To Meet You have been confirmed as follows :
2 July : UK, Ireland (13 track limited edition)
2 July : Austria, Belgium, Germany, Holland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland
3 July : Japan
9 July : Denmark, Greece, New Zealand, Norway
12 July : Italy
13 July : South Africa
17 July : Canada
23 July : Australia
All international versions are 11 track albums which exclude the tracks Gaudi and What Is It Good For? Buyers outside the UK can purchase the album online at Audiostreet and get the full UK version with the two missing tracks and bonus CD material.
The single Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) was released on June 25th and reached number 22 in the Top 40, after peaking in the midweek charts. The single’s showing was enough to merit an appearance on Top of the Pops on Friday 6 July.
James have announced a December UK arena tour with support from “special guests” Ben Folds
December 2 – Brighton Centre
December 4 – Newcastle Telewest Arena
December 6 – Birmingham NEC
December 7 – Manchester Arena
December 9 – Glasgow SECC
December 10 – Wembley Arena
Update 20.6.01
James compilation album of material from their Sire and Factory days “Strange Dancing – The Early Years” is now scheduled for release on Monday 23rd July.
The album artwork has finally been revealed – see the picture above. The “man” on the cover is a computer generated image from pictures of all seven band members – click here to read Tim’s explanation to Q of the concept behind the cover.
Update 19.6.01
Last night James played an exclusive “Sessions” set for XFM at the Sound nightclub in Leicester Square. The 20 song set featured Alaskan Pipeline, Space, Stand, Senorita, Junkie, Waltzing Along, Sometimes, Just Like Fred Astaire, Pleased To Meet You, The Shining, Falling Down, I Know What I’m Here For, Destiny Calling, Fine, English Beefcake, Born of Frustration and Ring The Bells with an encore of What Is It Good For?, She’s A Star and Getting Away With It (All Messed Up).
For a review of the gig, click here
James have been confirmed to play the Benicassim Festival in Spain on Friday August 3rd, according to the festival’s site www.fiberfim.com
Update 15.6.01
According to Siren CD, the two CD singles of the Getting Away With It single are as follows:
CD1 : Getting Away With It, Make It Alright, So Swell (Ambient Version)
CD2 : Getting Away With It, Stand, The Shining (Live At Ridge Farm)
More details as I get it……
Update 12.6.01
The James official website is running a competition for five pairs of tickets to the XFM gig. The competition winners will be notified on Thursday 14th so don’t delay with your entry.
Update 11.6.01
James will be appearing on CDUK this Saturday 16th June, starting at 11.30am on ITV.
James are playing an exclusive gig for XFM at Sound in Leicester Square next Monday 18th June. Tickets can only be obtained by entering a competition at the XFM website.
Mercury have just released a new press biography for the album, which takes a look back at James career from an interesting viewpoint. Click here to read it.
Update 7.6.01
Mercury have updated their James site – www.jamesonline.co.uk – with a news section, audio streams of samples of English Beefcake, Pleased To Meet You and Fine plus a full version of the track Pleased To Meet You. There is the promise that all tracks will be available on stream before the album release.
There is also the chance to watch the videos for Waltzing Along, Born of Frustration, Destiny Calling, an electronic Press Kit, Laid, Runaground, Sit Down, Say Something, Sometimes, She’s A Star and Tomorrow.
There’s also a competition that you have to enter numerous times to get the various bits of the site and the navigation can be a bit tricky, but go and have a look, you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
Pleased To Meet You will also be released in Spain, Portugal and Greece on July 2nd, the same day as the UK. No other international releases have been confirmed. For those outside these countries, CD-WOW are selling the album for £8.99 including free worldwide delivery.
Update 2.6.01
Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) has been added to Virgin Radio’s playlist and was also voted number 14 in this week’s listener charts at www.virginradio.co.uk where you can still vote for it.
Update 30.5.01
The line-up for the Guildford Festival has now been confirmed. James headline on Saturday 4th August supported by Cast, Saw Doctors, Bert Jansch and Bernard Butler, Chumbawamba, The Chameleons and Bjorn Again. Pulp and Catatonia headline the other two nights.
Tickets are now on sale. Click here for more details
Update 29.5.01
The attached picture shows the promo one-track single on sale at E-bay for the forthcoming single Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) due for release on Monday 25th June. Radio airplay for the single is reported to be slow so far with no Radio 1 playlisting to date.
The single artwork for Getting Away With It is rumoured to be based around the picture to the left taken from the official Mercury James site. The site www.jamesonline.co.uk now features a new front page and would appear to be being prepared for relaunch. A full album promo has appeared as well (and no, I don’t have a copy)
James have announced a warm-up gig at the Grimsby Auditorium on Friday 6th July as a warm-up for their performance at T In The Park the following day and Liverpool Summer Pops Festival two days later. More details in the Tour Dates section. The gig replaces the show cancelled in November due to storm damage to the venue.
The Warner Brothers compilation double album Strange Dancing – The Early Years covering James career with Factory and Sire Records between 1983 and 1988 is now scheduled for release on Monday 25 June, according to HMV.
Update 24.5.01
CD-WOW will sell the new album Pleased To Meet You worldwide for £8.99 including postage and packing, including the US. Click here to go to their site
Update 22.5.01
James are one of the bands with memorabilia featured in the new Manchester branch of the Doc Marten’s store in Manchester Triangle (formerly Corn Exchange) – also featured are The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Buzzcocks and Oasis. The exhibition runs until August.
Update 21.5.01
Tim gave an interview at Later during the recording sessions for the show, to see and read it, click here
Update 20.5.01
The new single Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) has been delayed by one week and will now be released on Monday 25th June, one week before the album Pleased To Meet You.
Update 17.5.01
James played the three songs – Getting Away With It (All Messed Up), Falling Down and Born of Frustration at Tuesday night’s recording of the Later With Jools program. The band were reportedly very pleased with the way the recording went.
In the chatroom last night, Mike indicated that plans are afoot for festival dates in Greece, Mexico, the US and Canada and that there are still plans for a UK tour in December as reported exclusively here about a month ago. San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and Toronto were mentioned in the conversation. Nothing has however been confirmed…….
Mike also appeared to rule out any additional festival dates to those already announced, which are : July 7 T In The Park, July 8 Liverpool Kings Dock, August 4 Guildford Festival, August 5 Witnness Festival, Ireland and August 25 Nottingham Wollaton Park. For more details of these, see the tour dates section.
Fans favourite track Scratchcard is also likely to appear as a b-side after being left off the album’s final tracklisting.
Update 15.5.01
James rehearsed three tracks for tonight’s Later With Jools performance – new single Getting Away With It (All Messed Up), Falling Down from the new album Pleased To Meet You and the classic 1992 hit Born of Frustration.
CD-WOW now have Pleased To Meet You available on pre-order for £8.99 with shipping to the UK, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. I’m trying to find out if they ship to the US and save you paying exorbitant import prices. Click here to go to CD-WOW.
Update 13.5.01
Another promo of the new album has appeared, this time a five-track promo in a red sleeve and featuring the as yet unheard track Alaskan Pipeline. For more on the new album, click here
Contrary to rumours on the official site messageboard Alaskan Pipeline is not Scratchcard which was played on the Autumn 2000 tour – it is a totally new track.
Laid is being used in the trailers to promote the new movie American Pie 2 in the US. The song also appeared in the theatrical trailer for the original movie, although it didn’t actually appear in the movie.
Update 11.5.01
The official James site now has an exclusive remix of the album track Fine by David Baynton-Power called Finer. Click here to go the site.
Update 10.5.01
James will be playing the Witnness Festival at the Fairyhouse Racecourse near Dublin on Sunday August 5th, the day after their headlining performance at the Guildford Festival. See the live page for more details
Update 6.5.01
James new studio album, due for release on July 2nd will be called Pleased To Meet You. Tracklisting is as follows:
| 1. Space | 2. Falling Down | 3. English Beefcake |
| 4. Junkie | 5. Pleased To Meet You | 6. The Shining |
| 7. Senorita | 8. Gaudi | 9. What Is It Good For |
| 10. Give It Away | 11. Fine | 12. Getting Away with It |
| 13. Alaskan Pipeline |
Update 6.5.01
James are confirmed as guests on Jools Holland’s BBC2 Later programme to be recorded on Tuesday 15th May and transmitted at 11.30pm on Friday 18th May and repeated on Sunday 20th May.
Update 27.4.01
James are headlining the Liverpool Echo’s Summer Pops festival at Liverpool’s Kings Dock on Sunday July 8th. The venue will apparently be all seated and in a marquee. Tickets are available from Liverpool Philharmonic, Piccadilly Box Office and other outlets, see the live page for more details
Update 26.4.01
James are headlining the second night of the Guildford Festival on Saturday 4 August. Tickets are not yet on sale. More details can be found at www.guildford-live.co.uk.
James are also to appear as special guests to Bryan Adams at City In The Park in Wollaston Park, Nottingham on Saturday August 25. More details at www.cityinthepark.com
James first single from the new album will be entitled Getting Away With It (All Messed Up), which was formerly known as Daniel’s Saving Grace. The track will be released to UK radio stations on Monday 7 May. It will be released on Monday June 18th.
Update 22.4.01
James have been confirmed as “Special Guests” at T in the Park on Saturday 7 July. The Sunday Mail has run an advert today with James on the bill.
Rumour – I’ve had a tip-off that James are planning an arena tour for December.
A nine-track untitled promo of tracks from the new album has appeared recently at Action Records and also on E-bay.
The promo CD features Space, Falling Down, Saving Grace, Give It Away, Coffee And Toast, Fine, Gaudi, Junkie and The Shining.
The present price (as at 8am, 22/4) is £31 at Ebay.
Update 18.4.01
Michael Kulas has released his second solo album “Another Small Machine” in Canada on 28th March. The catalogue number is INTER001 and can be ordered from www.hmv.com. A special feature on the album will follow as soon as I have more details.
According to Michael, there will be no promotion of the album due to his commitments with James. I would imagine that this will mean no UK release at the present time, if at all.
Update 17.4.01
According to their playlist and the reports of James fans in the US, KCRW’s Morning Become Eclectic Show played a demo of a track called “Fine” from the new LP. More if I can find it out…..
Update 11.4.01
According to the official James website, the new as yet untitled James album will be released in the UK on Monday 2 July. A single, also as yet undecided, will precede it on Monday 18th June.
Update 31.3.01
HMV’s release schedules show a yet untitled James single due for release on June 4th.
Update 16.3.01
James new album, provisionally entitled Space, was presented to the record company by Brian Eno on Wednesday evening.
The proposed tracklisting for the album included the tracks included ‘Space’, ‘Falling Down’, ‘Saving Grace’, ‘Give It Away’, ‘Coffee And Toast’, ‘Fine’, ‘Gaudi’, ‘Junkie’ and ‘The Shining’.
The album should contain 11 or 12 tracks and was described by Eno to the NME as “the best they’ve ever made.”
For more, take a look at Oneofthethree’s special Space feature
Update 7.3.01
According to the official James site, James have actually now finished their new album, contradicting what was posted yesterday.
The album, containing 14 tracks, will be presented by Brian Eno to the record company at an unnamed London studio next Wednesday, 14 March. Following that, a decision will be made on the first single and a release schedule, as revealed here two days ago.
Update 6.3.01
According to the band’s press office, there are no plans to release a single on April 16, as previously reported here and advertised in HMV.
The album is now almost completed and the band have just finished a break following the completion of most of the sessions and mixing, leaving one track to finish in the studio over the course of this week – according to the official website.
The press office added that the band will present the album to the record company, who have not heard the final work yet, over the next couple of weeks. Any first single from the album would not be released until May at the earliest and no song has been yet identified as the first single.
The album should follow “in the summer”, probably late June. It will feature as expected most of the songs previewed on the autumn UK tour. No title has yet been decided on. Read more on the songs here.
The Warner Brothers compilation “Strange Dancing – The Early Years” is now likely to be released in May or June. Legal clearance is presently being sought for some of the tracks that will appear on the double album.
With Warner taking over the rights to the London/Factory catalogue, the album will include the five tracks from Jimone and James II EPs (Village Fire EP) and should also include the b-sides from the Sire singles (Chain Mail, So Many Ways, What For and Ya Ho) although the tracklisting has not yet been finalised. It is unlikely that there will be any unreleased material on the compilation as a search of the Sire/WEA archives did not pick up any new tracks.
As previously reported, the band have finalised the tracklisting for the b-sides album which compromises of tracks from “early in their career” (which I take to mean How Was It For You? onwards) right through to the Millionaires b-sides. The tracklisting has yet to be presented to the record company and the release strategy (how it fits in with the new album) will be discussed at the aforementioned presentation, but it is still scheduled for this year.
The “Remasters” series is still in the planning stage. Gold Mother, Seven, Laid and Whiplash will get the treatment with new sleeve notes and possibly extra tracks. Gold Mother may feature the two tracks deleted from the original release back in 1991 – Hang On and Crescendo.
There are presently no confirmations of festival appearances – James had hoped to play Glastonbury, but it is probable that they will make an appearance at at least one of the summer festivals.
Update 5.3.01
According to a release schedule in HMV Romford, James have a new, as yet untitled, single due for release on April 16.
Update 23.2.01
Strange Dancing – The Early Years, the Sire/WEA compilation has been put back until April 16th. Tracklisting and artwork are being finalised as we speak and I should have more details for you at the back end of next week
A tour of the UK is presently “under consideration” but nothing definite has been agreed as yet. It will be 2-3 weeks at the very least before there is any more news.
News update on James ex-manager and mother of Tim’s son Ben : she is now running a management company in Brighton representing Polak and the comedian Rob Newman.
Update 2.2.01
Tim Booth was online in the chatroom at the official James site – www.jamestheband.com on Wednesday night and gave the following information:
– the album and a UK tour are pencilled in for May / June
– the album is now being mixed in London
– a US release and tour is planned for September. A new record label boss in the US is said to be more favourably inclined to James than the previous one.
– Tim is presently teaching dance in Brighton and is about to jet off to the Canary Islands to teach dance there for 10 days
– he was unaware of WEA’s plans for the “Strange Dancing” collection
Update 30.1.01
The new James album, tentatively scheduled for release in April / May is presently being mixed at an unnamed London studio.
Due to be released later in the year, the James b-side album is to be titled “Now That’s What I Call B-Sides Volume 1”. The album will contain 20 tracks including Van Gogh’s Dog, The Lake, Sunday Morning, China Girl and Gone Too Far. The full tracklisting will be confirmed soon.
Larry Gott’s design career is taking off in a big way. One of his designs will be available in Conran stores in London, Paris and New York in the next couple of months and Habitat are currently prototyping one of his designs. More on Larry in this exclusive interview.
Update 29.1.01
More information on the “Strange Dancing” album – this is scheduled for release on March 12 as a two-CD Anthology-type package. Tracklisting and catalogue numbers have not been finalised. I will hopefully get more information on this in the next day or so.
Update 27.1.01
February’s edition of Record Collector features the following “Among the new millenium’s first reissues are ‘Strange Dancing – The Early Years’ covering the pre-fame noodlings of indie popsters James. This was in an article on Warners record label (which Sire is now part of) More as I get it….
Update 24.1.01
Tim Booth will be taking part in a live chat session on the official James website at 8pm UK time on Wednesday 31st January – www.jamestheband.com
Update 4.1.01
James are appearing as special guests at the Villars 24 Heures Grand Prix benefit in Geneva, Switzerland on Saturday 13 January. The event raises funds for Formula Charity, an organization created by racing driver and long-term James fan Jacques Villeneuve and Craig Pollack, the director of British American Racing. James will perform a full electric set at the party surrounding the two-day event on Saturday night.
The event however is press, sponsors and race entrants only according to the official James site. So if you turn up you may well not get it. No other shows are planned whilst the band are in Switzerland.