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Liverpool Hope And Glory Festival – 5th August 2017

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Setlist

Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Curse Curse / Catapult / Five-0 / Out To Get You / Dear John / Sit Down / Just Like Fred Astaire / How Was It For You / Sound / Sometimes / Nothing But Love

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Various (festival)

Reviews

The Hope and Glory Festival was an operational disaster. Poor planning, organisation and management by the operator led to excessive queueing and long delays in getting in and around the venue. This had a knock-on effect to the event causing support Charlotte Church to be cancelled and on-the-fly setlist reductions being forced onto the bands. Then Sunday’s festival was cancelled at short notice.

The bands and fans were clearly not amused – and the event promoter even started a public Twitter spat with James’ after Tim Booth tweeted how unhappy he was for fans.

You can read about the Hope And Glory fiasco on EvenTheStars.co.uk in two reviews: A Festival Goer’s Experience and Reviews of the Bands.

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Newmarket Nights – 4th August 2017

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Setlist

Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Waltzing Along / Five-0 / Of Monsters And Heroes And Men / Dear John / Born Of Frustration / Just Like Fred Astaire / Busted / Interrogation / P.S. / How Was It For You / Sit Down / Attention / Sound / Come Home / She’s A Star / Nothing But Love / Laid

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Reviews

“Booth performed with real energy, dancing around on stage like a spinning top. The music covered a range of emotions, but the primary feeling was one of anthemic celebration.” EastLife.co.uk

“A faultless performance.” – East Anglian Daily Times

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Newcastle Times Square – 29th July 2017

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Setlist

Sit Down / Ring The Bells / Curse Curse / Catapult / Five-0 / Walk Like You / Just Like Fred Astaire / Johnny Yen / Trouble / Of Monsters And Heroes And Men / Moving On / Hymn From A Village / How Was It For You / Attention / Sometimes / She's A Star / Come Home / Nothing But Love

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Peter Hook & The Light, Milburn, Wild Front

Reviews

James were supported by Peter Hook And The Light. James’s Tim and Jim turned up on stage to play Love Will Tear Us Apart during Hooky’s set.

Even The Stars

“With the release of remastered versions of Stutter and Strip-mine this week, it’s wholly appropriate that Johnny Yen gets played and it feels like welcoming back an old friend, but one that’s changed since you last met. It should have been a single way back in 1986 and it could have been a game changer, yet thirty one years on it feels as fresh as if it were a new song.”

Read the full review at EvenTheStars.co.uk

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High Wycombe Pennfest – 22nd July 2017

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Setlist

Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / How Was It For You? / Interrogation / Catapult / Come Home / She's A Star / Trouble / Sometimes / Attention / Nothing But Love / Tomorrow / Laid

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Reviews

None.

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London Kew Gardens – 15th July 2017

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Setlist

Sound / Moving On / Interrogation / Hymn From A Village / How Was It For You / Five-0 / Catapult / Backwards Glances / Born Of Frustration / She's A Star / Of Monsters And Heroes And Men / Tomorrow / Attention / Sometimes / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Come Home / Nothing But Love / Laid

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Sherlocks, Paradisia

Reviews

Even The Stars

This wasn’t the easiest gig James will ever play, working conditions weren’t in their favour, but they’re not a band to just lie back and take the easy route out. The setlist wasn’t full of crowd-pleasers, but anyone who knows this band, and even more those that understand them, should know that they’re never going to be dull performing monkeys like so many of the bands that are rightly deemed heritage bands have become. James are a living mutating beast, evolving constantly, reinventing themselves, turning themselves inside out and twisting themselves round and round.

Read the full review at EvenTheStars.co.uk

Plastic Magazine

James are a band that all collaborate to deliver something truly special and this showed throughout the entirety of the gig, especially during ‘Attention’; their favourite track to play from ‘Girl at the End of the World’. Beginning with piano, ‘Attention’ is a slow starter until keyboardist Mark Hunter leads a euphoric breakdown, before the track proceeds in a truly exhilarating manner. ‘Sometimes’ was another euphoric moment, though in a different sense as the band stopped playing at the end of the song, allowing the crowd to continue the chorus at a volume that could surely have been heard for miles, before beginning to play again.

Read the full review at PlasticMag.co.uk

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Manchester Castlefield Bowl – 7th July 2017

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Setlist

Walk Like You / How Was It For You / Catapult / Dear John / Five-0 / Hymn From A Village / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Sometimes / Busted / Interrogation / Born Of Frustration / Stripmining / She's A Star / Of Monsters And Heroes And Men / Moving On / Attention / Sit Down / Nothing But Love / Come Home / Laid

Support

Slow Readers Club, David Keenan

Reviews

James produced a unique T-shirt for the Castlefield gig, with each sale providing a donation to the Manchester Emergency Fund.

Even The Stars

This type of stage was made for James and tonight they deliver possibly the finest hometown show we’ve seen them deliver. There’s something for everyone in a set that spans the best part of three and a half decades from their Factory single Hymn From A Village, that still sounds as fresh and vital as it did when it came out through to a brand new song called Busted that is being played for only the second time and which makes us firmly believe that this is a band with years still left in their tank with their creative spark burning stronger than ever rather than dimming with age.

Read the full review at EvenTheStars.co.uk

Manchester Evening News

…Nothing But Love has the crowds in raptures, many giving random strangers high fives and hugs, and up on the sloping grass upper-echelons of Castlefield Bowl the giddier kippers in their daisy t-shirts are near sliding up and down with joy.

Read the full review at ManchesterEveningNews.co.uk

Sounds

It’s hard to explain the ragged attraction of a James show to people who are used to polished and over-rehearsed slick performances or acts that rely on backing tapes, but it’s that knife-edge of excitement of knowing that a song the band have played a million times could fall apart any second that keeps the diehards coming back. It’s called live music; you should try it sometime.

Read the full review at SoundsMagazine.co.uk

GigSoup

James well and truly came home and whilst Booth sang the lyrics “I’m in awe of you” during ‘Of Monsters & Heroes & Men’ earlier in the evening, the bands set left a sold out Castlefield Bowl full of fans well and truly in awe of James.

Read the full review at GigSoupMusic.com

Flick Of The Finger

Having attended a fair few James gigs over the years their ability to draw in a crowd as they perform is a joy to behold, I don’t think I have ever encountered a band who can layer up a song is such intricate layers that drag you some place new.

Read the full review at FlickOfTheFinger.co.uk

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Leicester O2 Academy – 5th July 2017

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Walk Like You / Dear John / Hymn From A Village / How Was It For You / Say Something / Busted / Overdose / I Know What I'm Here For / Born Of Frustration / Feet Of Clay / Stripmining / She's A Star / Of Monsters And Heroes And Men / Moving On / Laid / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Attention / Come Home / Sometimes / Nothing But Love

The Fan VIP Soundcheck included:
Stripmining / Trouble / I Know What I'm Here For

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Shaking Chains

Reviews

Billed as the warm-up/debut gig of the Summer 2017 ‘Daisy Tour’, James cover hits, recent songs, as well as older archive material. Also included was the debut of two new songs that the band are still working on, named Busted and Overdose. A third new song, Trouble, was played at the fan VIP Soundcheck, but not at the gig itself.

Top Of The World was included as the last song on the setlist, but the support band overran, James hit the 11PM curfew, and it was dropped.

A full gig review is at EvenTheStars.co.uk

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Guadalajara Roxy Festival – 1st April 2017

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James played this festival on the main stage just before Morrissey

Setlist

Laid / Tomorrow / Curse Curse / Moving On / Out To Get You / Interrogation / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Nothing But Love / Attention / Come Home / Sometimes / Sit Down

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Review

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Mexico City El Plaza Condesa – 29th March 2017

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James’ first gig of 2017 saw them debut a new song called Trouble

Setlist

Out To Get You / To My Surprise / Curse Curse / Ring The Bells / Interrogation / Moving On / Say Something / Trouble / She's A Star / Just Like Fred Astaire / Sound / Attention / Come Home / Tomorrow / Waltzing Along / Nothing But Love / Sometimes / Sit Down

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Liverpool Echo Arena – 10th December 2016

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Waltzing Along / To My Surprise / Surfer's Song / Ring The Bells / Moving On / Interrogation / Five-O / She's A Star / Feet Of Clay / Johnny Yen / Born Of Frustration / Dear John / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Come Home / Attention / Just Like Fred Astaire / Laid / Sometimes / Nothing But Love

Support

The Charlatans / The Slow Readers Club

Review

http://www.eventhestars.co.uk/2016/12/james-charlatans-slow-readers-club.html

 

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Sheffield O2 Academy – 9th December 2016

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Walk Like You / Ring The Bells / Surfer's Song / To My Surprise / Hymn From A Village / Ten Below / Waltzing Along / Moving On / Born Of Frustration / Vervaceous / All Good Boys / Five-O / Dear John / Just Like Fred Astaire / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Come Home / Attention / She's A Star / Sometimes / Nothing But Love

Support

The Slow Readers Club

Review

http://www.eventhestars.co.uk/2016/12/james-slow-readers-club-sheffield-o2.html

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Wolverhampton Civic – 7th December 2016

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Setlist

Waltzing Along / To My Surprise / Surfer's Song / Ring The Bells / Interrogation / Ten Below / English Beefcake / Five-O / Moving On / Born Of Frustration / Feet Of Clay / Burned / Dear John / She's A Star / Come Home / Sit Down / Attention / Just Like Fred Astaire / Sometimes / Nothing But Love

Support

The Slow Readers Club

Review

http://www.eventhestars.co.uk/2016/12/james-slow-readers-club-wolverhampton.html

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