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BBC Radio 2 Jo Whiley Session – 17th April 2024
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Our World / Is This Love / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Fix YouSupport
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Mexico City Viva Latino Festival – 17th March 2024
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Johnny Yen / Waltzing Along / Beautiful Beaches / Ring The Bells / Five-O / All The Colours Of You / Life's A Fucking Miracle / Sometimes / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Laid / Sit DownSupport
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Guadalajara Guanamor Teatro Studio – 15th March 2024
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Johnny Yen / Waltzing Along / Beautiful Beaches / Life's A Fucking Miracle / Five-O / Born Of Frustration / Our World / Is This Love / Just Like Fred Astaire / Ring The Bells / All The Colours Of You / Say Something / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Sometimes / Out To Get You / Sound / Laid / Sit DownSupport
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London Shepherd’s Bush Empire – 30th October 2023
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Sound / Ring The Bells / Curse Curse / Walk Like You / Interrogation / Tomorrow / Come Home / She's A Star / Johnny Yen / All Good Boys / Sit Down / Beautiful Beaches / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Sometimes / LaidSupport
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Review: David Brown @ Even The Stars
“The buzz in the room is electric as the lights go up. It’s rare for James to play a show this small these days, their June 2024 show is at the mammoth O2, 10 times the size of this. They make those arenas feel intimate, but tonight you could see the whites in their eyes, smell the intensity of the performance and revel in the fact that it could all coming crashing down in an instant. The song choice might have been more straight-forward than usual, but this band is all about the delivery of them. And that was as unpredictably unpredictable as ever.”
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Review: Scott Colothan @ Hello Rayo
“Headlined by indie icons James with very special guests The Snuts, all 2,000 tickets to the event sold out within minutes of going on sale in early September.”
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Bath Forum – 24th October 2023
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Dust Motes / Beautiful Beaches / Moving On / The Shining / Seven / Ten Below / We're Going To Miss You / She's A Star / The Lake / Nothing But Love / Born Of Frustration / Magic Bus / Sit Down / Love Make A Fool / Someone's Got It In For Me / Say Something / Riders / Alaskan Pipeline / Hello / All The Colours Of You / Many Faces / Tomorrow / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / SometimesSupport
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Originally scheduled for 15th May 2023
Review: David Brown @ Even The Stars
“There’s a magic whenever James take the stage, an unpredictability about what you’re going to get even if the setlist doesn’t spring any surprises. They’re a band that thrive on the mood, both in the band and in the room, and this collaboration has effectively fused an orchestra and choir that have wholeheartedly bought into the band’s ethos on to the already hefty nine of them. These shows may never happen again, it’s twelve years since the first orchestral tour, and 2024 sees a new album and the campaign that comes with it out in the world and James continuing to look forward as a band to their next twist and turn, but they’ll live long in the memory.”
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CA Vilar De Mouros – 26th August 2023
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Isabella / Waltzing Along / Laid / Out To Get You / She's A Star / Medieval / All The Colours Of You / Many Faces / Say Something / Sit Down / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / SometimesSupport
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London Crystal Palace Bowl – 11th August 2023
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Johnny Yen / Isabella / Waltzing Along / Sound / Hymn From A Village / Medieval / She's A Star / Out To Get You / All Good Boys / Come Home / Tomorrow / Sit Down / Beautiful Beaches / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Laid / SometimesSupport
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Review: David Brown @ Even The Stars
“James feel like they’re on a roll right now, there’s an on-stage energy and creative tension that makes them thrive. They’re ready to take risks but also understand the need to give everybody something to walk out the door with, mixing the known with less-known, confident in the latter to win the crowd over. From the likes of Johnny Yen and Hymn From A Village through to Isabella and Beautiful Beaches, they’ve discovered an anti-ageing serum that all of us in the crowd would love to bottle and apply.”
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Review: Neil Dowden @ Music OMH
“From their 1990 breakthrough baggy album Gold Mother, Come Home has the crowd singing along as does their biggest hit Sit Down, with Booth conducting everyone in an extended a capella chorus. He dedicates it to the memory of their former collaborator Sinead O’Connor, paying tribute to her whistleblowing in particular. Booth, who has entertained with frenzied whirling dervish dancing and constantly engaged closely with the audience at the front, goes one step further during Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) as he surfs on the crowd. James close with the gospel-like Sometimes with the chorus “Sometimes, when I look deep in your eyes, I swear I can see your soul” bringing everyone together at the end of the evening.”
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Review: Radio X
“Tim Booth and co took to the stage at the Crystal Place Bowl for a 17-song set, which was preceded by support from Girlband and fellow Mancunians the Happy Mondays”
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Review: Andrew Perry @ The Telegraph
“If pop’s history books were to be believed, James should really have been the support, not the headliners, on this sunny evening in Crystal Palace Park…”
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Y Not Festival – 29th July 2023
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Sound / Isabella / Come Home / All The Colours Of You / Tomorrow / Out To Get You / Sometimes / Sit Down / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Ring The Bells / LaidSupport
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Dundee Slessor Gardens – 28th July 2023
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Sound / Isabella / Waltzing Along / I Know What I'm Here For / All The Colours Of You / Walk Like You / She's A Star / Out To Get You / I Defeat / Tomorrow / Sit Down / Beautiful Beaches / Ring The Bells / Sometimes / Come Home / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up)Support
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Review: David Brown @ Even The Stars
“Sit Down is taken away from the band by the crowd and made their own and if Tim hadn’t stopped them they’d probably still be singing it now. It can be a cliche with audience singalongs but not when it’s this spontaneous. As if almost to prove a point the crowd don’t pick up Sometimes at the end so it comes to a slightly abrupt stop. It probably affords them an extra song as they quickly decide to ditch the encore ritual and finish with Come Home and Getting Away With It (All Messed Up), chosen off the hoof from a list of possibilities that means there’s a few moans about the exclusion of Laid. But this is James, you don’t get everything you expect or want every time, but you are pretty much guaranteed a joyous occasion, plenty of unique moments and a band that is thriving now as a unit more than they’ve ever done, reviving old songs and giving them new life and magic, throwing in the odd curveballs and never neglecting their most recent work.”
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Latitude Festival – 23rd July 2023
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Sit Down / Dust Motes / The Lake / The Shining / Tomorrow / Born Of Frustration / Someone's Got It In For Me / All The Colours Of You / Many Faces / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Say Something / Medieval / Sometimes / LaidSupport
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Review: Mark Savage @ BBC Entertainment
“The highlight is Sometimes, which ends with a long, lingering chorus that alternates between the choir and the crowd. The band line up at the front of the stage to take it in, clearly moved at the response.”
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Review: Nick Linazasoro @ Brighton And Hove News
“We kicked off the final ‘Latitude’ day at the main Obelisk Arena. However, traffic to the festival was backed up a few miles, whereas it hadn’t been the past two days and so time was ticking and by the time we arrived on site we could hear on the wind at 12 noon that today’s openers, James, had started to perform their ‘Sit Down’ anthem. I was surprised exactly how far the sound was carrying. We quickened our pace, but as it’s such a large site that it took us several numbers to arrive near the front of the stage. ‘Dust Motes’, ‘The Lake’, ‘The Shining’ and ‘Tomorrow’ came and went.”
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