All The Colours Of You is released on June 6 and reaches number 3 in the UK album charts.
A video for Getting Myself Into, recorded at Broughton Hall in Skipton the previous month featuring the band wearing animal masks, is released.
A major show at Kenwood House in London to celebrate the post-COVID return of live music is postponed as restrictions are extended.
Tim Booth appears on Channel 4 news and BBC Breakfast to talk about the impact of the restrictions on the band.
James meet for the first time in 20 months at Broughton Hall near Skipton in Yorkshire to rehearse for their summer dates and to record promotional sessions for the release of All The Colours Of You.
They release two further singles from All The Colours Of You – Recover and Isabella
James release the lead track Beautiful Beaches from their All The Colours Of You album.
They perform the track, All The Colours Of You, Say Something and a cover of I’m A Believer, recorded in isolation, for Jo Whiley’s BBC Radio 2 Sofa Sessions
James announce the release of their sixteenth studio album All The Colours Of You and reveal the title track through an exclusive play on BBC 6 Music’s Steve Lamacq show
Two James tracks are featured on the Music Feeds online festival curated by Saul’s Everybody Belongs Here initiative. The first is a soundcheck recording of I Wanna Go Home from Philadelphia in 2018 and the second is the first reveal of a track called Recover from the All The Colours Of You album, recorded in Costa Rica, Scotland, Portugal and London and edited together exclusively for the festival.
James announce the release of Live In Extraordinary Times on CD / DVD / Vinyl / download for December.
The variety of formats include a photobook and the album includes shows from their 2018/9 Living In Extraordinary Times tours.
Jim bucks the trend of artists performing live from home by reading bedtime stories from his armchair on Facebook Live.
Tim emerges from lockdown to perform an Isolation Session of three tracks with neighbour Joel Shearer from his home in Topanga and another online set as part of a dance workshop featuring five tracks from James, Booth And The Bad Angel and his solo career.
Four festival appearances for the summer of 2020 are cancelled due to the Coronavirus.
James round off their UK festival season headlining Bingley Live before heading to Iberia for a headline set broadcast live from Lisbon’s Rock In Rio anniversary celebrations and shows at Madrid’s La Riviera and Porto’s Parque Pastelaria. A scheduled performance at the Visor Festival in Benidorm is cancelled due to storms.
They announce that the band will go on a hiatus before regrouping to complete the studio album that were in the middle of writing.
James headline Lakefest, Hardwick Live and Cool Britannia festivals as well as playing their own headline shows in Edinburgh Princes Gardens and at Doncaster Racecourse and travelling to France to the Cabaret Vert festival where they are joined on stage by Patti Smith Band’s Lenny Kaye who produced their debut album Stutter.
James head to North America for a 24-date co-headline tour with The Psychedelic Furs that runs into August culminating at The Greek Theatre in Los Angeles.
James kick off the UK festival season playing The Great Estate Festival before heading to Greece to play a headline show in Thessaloniki and a festival in Athens.
From there they head to Malta for their first ever show there which is almost cancelled as Jim is taken ill shortly before stage time but the band soldier on.
They head back to the UK to play the Isle Of Wight Festival and support Courteeners at their massive hometown Heaton Park show in Manchester.