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San Francisco Stern Grove Festival – 4th August 2019

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Walk Like You / Hank / What’s It All About / Come Home / Laid / P.S. / Leviathan / Many Faces / Sometimes / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Sound

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Review: Roman Gokhman at Riff Magazine

Booth jumped off the stage and then hopped from picnic table to picnic table before singing in a sea of fans who had encircled him. That song rolled right into James’ biggest hit, “Laid,” off 1993’s album of the same name. The energetic performance got most people up from their seats as Booth remained in the crowd.

Read the full review at RiffMagazine.com

Reno Grand Sierra Resort And Casino Grand Theater – 3rd August 2019

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Many Faces / Hank / What’s It All About / Walk Like You / Waltzing Along / Broken By The Hurt / Johnny Yen / Leviathan / Nothing But Love / Sometimes / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Come Home

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Review: Shaun Astor at Tahoe Onstage

It was clear who attended [the co-headline tour] to see James, as a good portion of the audience members were on their feet, phones in the air while singing along to the group’s light-drenched renditions of their cerebral club rock. Singer Tim Booth would move in spastic motions beneath the strobes before climbing over the barrier from the stage and performing a final song, “Come Home,” while walking through the Grand Theatre’s aisles amidst the audience.

Read the full review at TahoeOnstage.com

Review: Jason DeBord at RockSubculture.com

When you see a line-up of guitars on a rack, and members playing different instruments throughout, you know this is a group that is serious about musicianship and are truly ones to see live, as they were very much in their element on stage.

Read the full review (with many picture from the gig) at RockSubculture.com

Portland Crystal Ballroom – 1st August 2019

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To My Surprise / Walk Like You / Hank / Heads / Ring The Bells / Out To Get You / What’s It All About / Leviathan / Moving On / Sometimes / Many Faces / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up)

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Vancouver Orpheum Theater – 31st July 2019

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What’s It All About / Heads / Play Dead / Walk Like You / All I’m Saying / How Hard The Day / Many Faces / Attention / Come Home / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up)

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Review: Martin Alldred at Panic Manual

James came on first, and performed a set of material mostly from albums they have recorded since they reformed in 2007. They sounded tight and Tim Booth’s voice has not lost any of its power. It was disappointing to not hear more of the old favourites, “Come Home” being the only song they played from back in the day. It sounded fantastic, and only made it more disappointing that they didn’t play one or two more.

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Review: EvenTheStars.co.uk

…during the set closer Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) Tim is joined on stage by an older chin-braided geezer in a straw pork pie hat who dances up a storm. The dam has been breached and soon a multi-generational and multi-gender crowd is up on stage dancing up a storm. As the tune finishes, Tim reminds the crowd that ‘it only takes one person to break through and make change’, and as we think about Greta Thunberg [the 16 year old Swedish climate change activist] and other new leaders, it is a good thought for all of us to take home and ponder before we start our new tomorrows.

Read the full review at EvenTheStars.co.uk

Seattle Showbox SODO – 30th July 2019

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Five-O / Leviathan / What’s It All About / Ring The Bells / Hank / Picture Of This Place / Don’t Wait That Long / Nothing But Love / Sometimes / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Sound / Many Faces

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Salt Lake City The Complex (Rockwell) – 27th July 2019

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Nothing But Love / Extraordinary Times / What’s It All About / Interrogation / Sometimes / Hank / Hello / Walk Like You / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Leviathan / Sound / Many Faces

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Denver Ogden Theater – 26th July 2019

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Play Dead / What’s It All About / Heads / Tomorrow / Attention / Out To Get You / Nothing But Love / Leviathan / Many Faces / Come Home / Sound / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up)

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Minneapolis Weesner Family Amphitheater – 24th July 2019

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Out To Get You / Leviathan / What’s It All About / Hank / All I’m Saying / P.S. / Nothing But Love / Many Faces / Sound / Sometimes

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Review: Markus Akre at Twin Cities Media

Dang, I forgot just how great a band James is! There are so many layers to the sound the 7 band members produce. James has a catalog of over 300 songs and they make up their set list to suit their mood each night (and that there tells you everything you need to know about the level James is playing on).

“Laid” the one song everyone knows and catapulted James into the public eye in the US. Not on the set list, not played, not a single note. And as much as fans (myself included) may have wanted to hear that one song, it would have taken away from a perfect set. Well played James, well played.

Read the full review at TwinCitiesMedia.net

Chicago Aragon Ballroom – 23rd July 2019

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Out To Get You / What’s It All About / Heads / Ring The Bells / Hank / Just Like Fred Astaire / Leviathan / Many Faces / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Come Home / Sound / Stutter

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Milwaukee Pabst Theater – 22nd July 2019

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Hank / Extraordinary Times / Picture Of This Place / Broken By The Hurt / Five-O / Leviathan / Sound / Sometimes / Nothing But Love / Many Faces / Come Home / Top Of The World

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Royal Oak Music Theater – 20th July 2019

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Hank / Curse Curse / Laid / Leviathan / Moving On / All I’m Saying / Say Something / Heads / What’s It All About / Attention / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Many Faces / Sometimes

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Review: EvenTheStars.co.uk

The high paced start to the night courtesy of Hank is maintained with La Petite Mort track Curse, Curse followed by the Laid title track and new track Leviathan. For the first time in this co-headlining tour, taking advantage of their longer stage time tonight, James do what they typically do when they are headliners and take a quiet break in the set to play a couple of emotionally charged, personal songs back to back.

Then out of the blue, the great Whiplash song Play Dead starts up to change the mood, but then in true James fashion the song falls apart a few lines into the start of Tim’s vocal. Unable to sort out what went wrong, after a minute or so James substitute Laid album song Say Something. Aah, so close to true victory, one can taste it. Too bad for all of us.

Read the full review at EvenTheStars.co.uk

Cleveland Agora Theatre – 19th July 2019

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Dream Thrum / To My Surprise / Born Of Frustration / Nothing But Love / Busted / What’s It All About / Heads / Sometimes / Come Home / Stutter / Many Faces / Laid

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Review: Cleveland Scene

…even the “soft” songs in the set possessed an intensity to them thanks to the chrome-domed Booth, who’d often tip-toe to the front of the stage to sing to the fans in the pit or gyrate under a flickering strobe during instrumental sections. At one point, he even made his way to the back of the pit to sing and dance with fans.

Read the full review at CleveScene.com

Review: EvenTheStars.co.uk

James rise to the challenge of playing in the Republican heartland of the rustbelt, and deliver a well played set. It is a challenge though: the introduction of politically charged new song Heads by Tim is met with some howls of disapproval from the audience. It is certainly a tightrope act for James tonight. It also doesn’t help that the Cleveland audience are noticeably older and a larger number of them than in previous nights are out to see the Psychedelic Furs. That’s just luck of the draw though when you have co-headlining bands from two different decades on tour together.

Read the full review at EvenTheStars.co.uk