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Lisbon Rock In Rio Festival – 29th June 2018
Setlist
Hank / Sit Down / Born Of Frustration / Heads / Many Faces / Out To Get You / Come Home / Coming Home (Pt 2) / Moving On / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Sometimes / LaidSupport
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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
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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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Hank (Lyric Video)
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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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Better Than That
Summary
EP released to coincide with spring mini-tour, ahead of summer album release.
Track List
Better Than That / Busted / Hank / Broken By The Hurt
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| Release Name: | Better Than That |
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| Release Date: | 18th May 2018 |
| Format: | Studio EP |
| Catalogue: | 4050538374995 |
EP released to coincide with the spring 2018 mini-tour, and ahead of the summer album release. The 10” vinyl EP contained 4 songs, including Busted which was first played live in the summer of 2017.
From official release statement:
James are proud to announce the release of a new four track EP. The Better Than That EP is produced by Mercury and Brit Award winner Charlie Andrew who has previously worked with Alt-J, Nick Mulvey and Wolf Alice. The release will be the first new music since the hugely successful 2016 album Girl at the End of the World, their highest debut entry in nearly twenty years, reaching number two, second only to Adele.
EP opener and first single Better Than That is upbeat and fast-paced, an ode to improvement, urging the universe to do its worst with Tim signing “you can do better than that”, kick starting the four tracks into gear. Busted is more mellow and dreamlike, with gentle guitars building in intensity as drums and brass join the fray. Hank with its buzzing guitars and distorted vocals is the most outspoken lyrically, warning of “white fascists in the white house” encouraging listeners to “bend the knee and stand your ground”. The EP closes with the melancholic Broken By The Hurt, slightly disturbing, dark with pop melodies, it’s a fitting end to a brand-new set of tracks from the ever eclectic, the ever popular, the one and only James.
- Better Than That :2018
- Broken By The Hurt :2018
- Busted :2018
- Hank :2018
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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