Four track live session and interview to support the USA and Canada summer tour. The video replay of the session is below.
QRO: It seemed darker than your last two records, the one about the apocalypse (Girl At the End of the World) and the one about death (La Petite Mort)…
TB: [laughs] You’re saying this one is darker than those?
I would agree with you on that. There were some really uplifting love songs on the last one, but on the last one, Girl At the End of the World, even the love songs always had a little threat of something. [laughs] People in love with somebody, your odds are you’re gonna get your heartbroken.
I’ve always felt a bit like that. It’s like, even when wonderful things are happening in my life, it’s hard for me not to gravitate towards, “But it’s shit sometimes…”
To me, that’s being realistic. I think that’s why we’ve lasted so many years – is because we write songs that people can relate to. And not many of us are living in paradise.
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Promotional video for UK dates in March 2019
Promotional video for 2018 UK winter tour with The Charlatans
Promotional video for 2018 UK winter tour with The Charlatans
Promotional video for James South Africa tour dates in November 2018
Promotional video for James New Zealand and Australia tour dates in November 2018
James today released the latest in the series of acoustic versions of tracks taken from their top ten album Living In Extraordinary Times. Backwards Glances featured on the deluxe version of the album only, but has been rerecorded in even more stripped down format for this release.
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Tim Booth gives Kyle Meredith a call to discuss the new James record, Living In Extraordinary Times, and the political and humanistic nature of some of the songs. The two then jump back to 1988 to revisit the Strip-Mine LP.
An obvious single from the album, were it not for the expletive “fucking love, fucking and love, before they drop the bomb, make sure you get enough” the song quickly became a live favourite and was performed on acoustic sessions with the “fucking” replaced by “tainted” as a means of ensuring it could be played.
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Tim and producers Charlie Andrew & Beni Giles chat about the making of Many Faces, from the new album Living In Extraordinary Times
To celebrate International Peace Day, James have released a video to their new single Many Faces, recorded during their Better Than That tour in May at Halifax’s Victoria Theatre. The song features on their fifteenth studio album Living In Extraordinary Times that hit the top ten in August and was at the time of the performance unreleased and only being played live for the fourth time, which makes the audience reaction to it even more special.
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