Setlist
Sit Down / Better Than That / Many Faces / Coming Home (Pt 2)Details
- Venue: BBC TV Studios, London, UK
- Date: 5th June 2018
Category Archives: Gigography
Oxford Common People Festival – 27th May 2018
Setlist
Hank / Better Than That / Ring The Bells / Come Home / Coming Home (Pt2) / Leviathan / Heads / Out To Get You / Sit Down / Nothing But Love / Moving On / Many Faces / Attention / Laid / Sometimes / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up)Support
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Review: EvenTheStars.co.uk
“Lightning flashes ominously in the background as James take to the stage as the sun begins to set and the full moon appears in the sky. That mix seems to fire the band up tonight for one of the strongest festival sets we’ve ever seen them perform. There’s a confidence running right through the band now that feels infectious as if there’s an unstoppable momentum propelling them forwards.”
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Southampton Common People Festival – 26th May 2018
Setlist
Hank / Better Than That / Moving On / Tomorrow / Coming Home (Pt.2) / Out To Get You / Many Faces / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Heads / Come Home / Sometimes / Laid / Nothing But Love / Sit DownSupport
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Review: EvenTheStars.co.uk
“James are festival veterans though and know that however much you experiment with the set, you need to leave the crowd with big hitters. Come Home sees [Tim] out amongst us, on the barrier and then crowd surfing, a particularly brave move here where there’s likely to be more wanting to capture an iPhone moment rather than holding him up.”
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Scunthorpe Baths Hall – 25th May 2018
Setlist
Hank / Moving On / Waltzing Along / Heads / Leviathan / Curse Curse / Coming Home (Pt. 2) / Busted / PS / She’s A Star / Sit Down / Tomorrow / Scarecrow / Johnny Yen / Many Faces / Attention / Nothing But Love / Sometimes / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Come HomeSupport
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Oban Corran Hall – 23rd May 2018
Setlist
Hank / What’s It All About? / Waltzing Along / Say Something / The Shining / PS / Heads / Coming Home (Pt. 2) / Leviathan / Scarecrow / How Was It For You? / Just Like Fred Astaire / Many Faces / Better Than That / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Born Of Frustration / Attention / Sometimes / Moving On / LaidSupport
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Review: EvenTheStars.co.uk
“I had my reservations about tonight. They were well and truly dismissed about twenty seconds in however. This is James, doing what James do. A stunning team performance where they tested each other and they tested the audience throughout the entire two hour show. The musicianship is incredible. Saul Davies has a quiet night but oozes cool , Adrian Oxaal is truly stunned by the audience reaction at times and Andy continues to be intuitive, adding glittering touches to many of the songs.”
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Middlesbrough Town Hall – 22nd May 2018
Setlist
Busted / Hank / Waltzing Along / Say Something / The Shining / PS / Heads / Coming Home (Pt. 2) / Scarecrow / How Was It For You? / What’s It All About? / Leviathan / She’s A Star / Sit Down / Many Faces / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Born Of Frustration / Better Than That / Sometimes / Moving On / LaidSupport
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Review: EvenTheStars.co.uk
“It’s time then to debut What’s It All About?, the closing track on Living In Extraordinary Times, and one of those journey songs that have so many different sections you can only identify them as coming from the same place by their dental records. It ends in a gentle acoustic strum with Tim repeating a mantra-like chorus, stood inches away from Adrian.”
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Halifax Victoria Theatre – 20th May 2018
Setlist
Hank / Heads / Ring The Bells / Leviathan / Five-O / To My Surprise / Gone Baby Gone / Scarecrow / Say Something / Busted / PS / Coming Home (Pt.2) / How Was It For You? / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Of Monsters And Heroes And Men / Many Faces / Born Of Frustration / Attention / Better Than That / Nothing But Love / Come Home / Sometimes / LaidVIP Soundcheck:
Many Faces / Hank / Better Than That
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Review: EvenTheStars.co.uk
“What happens next is something that will live in the memory as one of the most incredible gig moments as the audience takes the chorus of new song Many Faces, which remember the vast majority of them will never have heard before and it’s not been released or even played on radio, and sing it back to the band for more than five minutes. Its chorus of “there’s only one human race, many faces, everybody belongs here” might have been written about Trump’s threat to build a wall to keep out Mexicans, but it embodies how this band write songs that are specific to Tim’s thought processes, but which allow everyone to put their own meaning to them and the two be completely compatible. In true James fashion, they probably won’t release it as a single.”
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Blackburn King George’s Hall – 19th May 2018
Setlist
Hank / To My Surprise / Gone Baby Gone / Heads / Ring The Bells / Walk Like You / Busted / Coming Home (Pt.2) / Leviathan / Scarecrow / Many Faces / Moving On / How Was It For You? / Born Of Frustration / Attention / Nothing But Love / Better Than That / Come Home / Sometimes / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / LaidVIP Soundcheck:
Walk Like You / Whiteboy / Heads
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Review EvenTheStars.co.uk
“James then crank it up for the romp through the final third act. Tim dives into the audience for How Was It For You? and is surfed aloft almost right round the King George’s Hall. Born Of Frustration provides more audience interaction as Andy pops up around the balcony like a manic trumpeting troubadour. And Attention is even better with the stronger drum beats that are the new band trademark.”
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Warrington Parr Hall – 17th May 2018
Setlist
Hank / Coming Home (Pt2) / Gone Baby Gone / Moving On / Ring The Bells / Better Than That / Leviathan / Scarecrow / Protect Me / Heads / How Was It For You / Curse Curse / Busted / Five-O / Many Faces / Born Of Frustration / Come Home / Sometimes / Nothing But Love / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / LaidVIP Soundcheck:
English Beefcake / Many Faces / Protect Me
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Review: EvenTheStars.co.uk
“Tim’s off into the crowd again for Born Of Frustration, but this time he scales the speaker stacks and climbs on to the balcony where he stops to dance with people as he makes his way round to be met by Andy who’s entered at the other side. There’s a moment where they stand face to face, vocal soaring with the trumpet call, and then they pass and complete their circle.”
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Review: Laura Dean for GIGsoup
“To say that it must be difficult for the band to choose a set list each night from their 250 tracks would be a huge understatement, but it’s a skill that they’ve perfected. Though impressed by all of the new tracks, the most memorable for the majority is likely to be ‘Many Faces’, which will soon sit alongside huge crowd pleasers ‘Sometimes’ and ‘Nothing But Love’.”
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Llandudno Venue Cymru – 16th May 2018
Setlist
Hank / Heads / Ring The Bells / Hymn From A Village / Nothing But Love / Leviathan / Five-0 / Coming Home (Pt.2) / Curse Curse / Both Of Frustration / Out To Get You / Many Faces / Busted / How Was It For You? / Better Than That / Come Home / Sometimes / Attention / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / LaidVIP Soundcheck:
Busted / Many Faces / How Was It For You?
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Review: EvenTheStars.co.uk
“The stage is set in a dark crisp burning orange that looks like the embers of a big fire settling and only the core of the fire still visible. Thousands of arms are raised aloft, everyone’s own interpretation of the lyrics are sung back like some form of communal expulsion of demons.”
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2018 Gigography
Manchester Albert Hall – 18th December 2017
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- 2017 Albert Hall Gig Print
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- Manchester Albert Hall T-Shirt (2017)
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- Manchester Albert Hall Hoodie (2017)
Setlist
First Set (acoustic, new songs and improv): Albert Hall Improvised Jam / Seven / Mask / Hello / Sit Down / Many FacesMain Set: To My Surprise / Born Of Frustration / Curse Curse / Play Dead / How Was It For You / Tomorrow / Interrogation / Moving On / Lost A Friend / Attention / Come Home / She's A Star / Nothing But Love / Sometimes
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At the end of October 2017 James announced a special one-off intimate concert to benefit the We Love Manchester Emergency Fund with the following message “Very happy to announce this benefit gig that we have been trying to make happen since the atrocity took place. Please excuse our tardiness. We intend to make a memorable night of this intimate gig. With love, James.” The tickets for the 2,000 capacity Manchester Albert Hall sold out in minutes.
The gig itself was opened by an acoustic set by special guests The Slow Readers Club, who had supported them throughout the Girl At The End Of The World tour.
James then played a first set of new songs, acoustic arrangements and Q&A, including a 9-minuted improvisation to showcase how the band developed new material. The acoustic songs, arranged by Joe Duddell, featured a string quartet.
Glasvegas singer and songwriter James Allan played a solo keyboard and guitar set.
James returned for their main set. At the end James bid farewell to regular touring member Ron Yeadon.
Specific merchandise was produced for the gig, including a hoodie, t-shirt and Mancsy print, with all net-profits going to the We Love Manchester Emergency Fund.
Review: EvenTheStars.co.uk
Tonight James were soul music, healing the heart of a city that was devastated by an attack on the gig culture that is at the very core of what makes Manchester one of, if not the principal music city of the world.
They deliver it as ever with a cleverness that means momentum is never lost and Tim’s out amongst us on Curse Curse, bending almost contorted over the front rows as well as ignoring all health and safety rules and a fair bit of self-preservation by clambering up onto the balcony and dangling precariously over us for the main set closer Come Home, showing that their intent is not just to connect emotionally but also physically with us.
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