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London The SSE Arena Wembley – 4th December 2021
Setlist
Zero / Isabella / She's A Star / Born Of Frustration / All The Colours Of You / Many Faces / Gold Mother / Honest Joe / Tomorrow / I Wanna Go Home / Nothing But Love / Interrogation / Hymn From A Village / Walk Like You / Curse Curse / Wherever It Takes Us / Come Home / Sit Down / Sound / Beautiful Beaches / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / LaidSupport
Happy MondaysMore Information & Reviews
Review: Andrew Perry @ Daily Telegraph
Sporting a fake-fur coat, billowing yoga trousers and the kind of voluminous woolly hat that rastafarians store their dreadlocks in, Booth bulldozed through by sheer force of character, dancing as if electrocuted, and frequently orating between numbers.
Approaching 11pm, the band’s early-90s gems finally materialised, with Come Home, a cathartic venting of frustration, and Sit Down, a freaks-united anthem whose unifying message felt doubly meaningful, mid-pandemic. As their show rambled into its third hour, James’s feelgood factor kept on coming, with rare engagement and depth.
Read the full review at Telegraph.com
Review: Ben Hogwood @ Music OMH
Booth’s stamina is laudable, throwing his wiry frame and loose clothes into extended dance moves where he looks to be breaking free of his own body. The band’s attempts to reach the back of the arena with their sound are successful, the bigger space giving us the chance to appreciate the band members more.
Read the full review at MusicOMH.com
Review: EvenTheStars.co.uk
James are continuing to find ways to evolve. In many ways they’re still that unique awkward defiant band that refused to play by the normal rules of the music business and the how to be a band handbook.
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Review: Ronan Fawsitt @ The Up Coming
Now four decades into their tenure, James continue to innovate and refuse to back down. Booth’s inimitable presence, with the quiet intensity of his free-flow dancing and his razor-sharp vocal cries through the megaphone, has the ability to sweep the audience up and take them anywhere he wants to go. Is it any wonder that James have found their place amongst a new generation of fans?
Read the full review at theupcoming.co.uk
Wolverhampton KK Steel Mill – 23rd November 2021
Setlist
Zero / Isabella / Sound / She's A Star / Gold Mother / Curse Curse / Wherever It Takes Us / Miss America / I Wanna Go Home / Born Of Frustration / Hymn From A Village / Beautiful Beaches / Maria / All The Colours Of You / Many Faces / Tomorrow / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Come Home / Sometimes / Sit DownSupport
Bryony WilliamsMore Information & Reviews
James warmed up for their Winter Arena tour with a two-hour career-spanning set at Wolverhampton’s KK’s Steel Mill. They covering ground from 1985’s second single to 2021’s sixteenth album with curveballs aplenty from across their catalogue. Bryony Williams opened up the evening as support.
Review: EvenTheStars.co.uk
There’s time for one last new one before the onslaught of hits that finish the show. All The Colours Of You has really come to life live, its references to lockdown feeling particularly appropriate as we (hopefully) come out the other side whilst its references to the political and social upheaval that coincided with it have a real resonance still. To emphasise they add the refrain to Many Faces on to the end and the audience sing back the important message – “there’s only one human race, many faces, everybody belongs here” to Tim as he stands atop his monitor and it’s the band’s turn to watch their audience.
“We needed that, we all need that” he tells us before they launch into Tomorrow, which has Tim singing right in Saul’s face and Getting Away With It (All Messed Up), their unofficial theme tune, to bring the main set to an end. The crowd are rewarded for their patience and attention and respond in kind, letting loose.
Read the full review at EvenTheStars.co.uk
Porto Parque Da Pasteleira – 13th September 2019
Setlist
Oh My Heart / To My Surprise / Sit Down / Tomorrow / Walk Like You / Picture Of This Place / Busted / Play Dead / Interrogation / Just Like Fred Astaire / She's A Star / PS / I Wanna Go Home / Nothing But Love / Say Something / Leviathan / Waltzing Along / Many Faces / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Stutter / Sound / Sometimes / Come HomeSupport
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Lisbon Coliseum – 4th April 2019
Setlist
Acoustic Set: Hello / Broken By The Hurt / All I'm Saying / Pressure's On / Sit Down / I Wanna Go Home / Just Like Fred AstaireElectric Set: Hank / Extraordinary Times / What's It All About / Tomorrow / Five-0 / Nothing But Love / Born Of Frustration / Heads / Sutter / Moving Car / Picture Of This Place / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Leviathan / Sound / Come Home / Many Faces / Laid
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James (acoustic)More Information & Reviews
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Carlisle Sands Centre – 20th March 2019
Setlist
VIP Soundcheck: Nothing But Love / Jam J / Maria’s PartyAcoustic Set: Coming Home (Pt2) / Pressure's On / All I'm Saying / I Wanna Go Home / Just Like Fred Astaire / Destiny Calling / Broken By The Hurt / Hello
Electric Set: Born Of Frustration / Extraordinary Times / What's It All About / Moving On / Jam J / Heads / Picture Of This Place / How Hard The Day / I Defeat / Waltzing Along / Leviathan / Attention / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Nothing But Love / Come Home / Many Faces / Top Of The World
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James (acoustic)More Information & Reviews
Review: EvenTheStars.co.uk
“Extraordinary Times, with its rumbling guitars and the contemporary feel that U2 wish they could still create, is an impressive introduction to the album it gives its name to’s material that forms a major part of the set. The live version of James 2019 feels hell-bent on challenging any perception of them being a hits-churning heritage act and the next three-song salvo provides compelling evidence to back up any waverers on this matter. In the soundcheck Saul described Jam J as post-industrial folk and it’s a pretty apt description for a song that has such a sharp-edged metallic bass line that feels like it’s warning of an impending apocalypse. Set to a wonderful strobe-lit background and Tim barking the verses through a megaphone, it might be twenty-five years old this year, but you wouldn’t know if you weren’t aware of their history.”
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Margate Winter Gardens – 6th March 2019
Setlist
Acoustic set: Hello / Broken By The Hurt / Quicken The Dead / Maria / All I'm Saying / I Wanna Go HomeElectric set: Johnny Yen / What's It All About / Picture Of This Place / Leviathan / Interrogation / Extraordinary Times / Heads / Tomorrow / Busted / How Hard The Day / Sit Down / Come Home / Born Of Frustration / Many Faces / Sound / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up)
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James (acoustic)More Information & Reviews
Review: EvenTheStars.co.uk
“We’re now thirteen songs into the night and it feels like there’s a big release of pressure as the opening bars of Tomorrow ring around the hall and those round the fringes throw themselves forward. It’s interesting to note here that even one of their best known and loved songs has to battle to sonically have the same energy of what’s gone before in the electric set which is testament to how James are moving further away from the heritage that bands of their generation seem every more desperate to cling to for financial reasons that destroys their creativity in the process.”
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Nottingham Royal Centre – 6th December 2016
Setlist
To My Surprise / Waking / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Moving On / Five-O / I Wanna Go Home / Interrogation / Move Down South / Tomorrow / Vervaceous / Feet Of Clay / She's A Star / Dear John / Surfer's Song / Curse Curse / Come Home / Attention / Just Like Fred Astaire / Sometimes / Nothing But Love / SoundSupport
The Slow Readers ClubMore Information & Reviews
Read the review of this gig at EvenTheStars.co.uk.
Fremantle Metropolis – 16th November 2016
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Johnny Yen / Oh My Heart / To My Surprise / Curse Curse / Waltzing Along / Ring The Bells / Interrogation / I Wanna Go Home / Vervaceous / Dear John / Say Something / She's A Star / Attention / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Come Home / Nothing But Love / Out To Get You / Laid / SometimesSupport
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Sydney Metro Theatre – 13th November 2016
Setlist
Attention / Moving On / Move Down South / Ring The Bells / I Wanna Go Home / Dear John / Catapult / Interrogation / PS / Say Something / Laid / Sometimes / Nothing But Love / Come Home / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up)Support
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Brisbane The Tivoli – 12th November 2016
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Out To Get You / Curse Curse / Say Something / Tomorrow / Interrogation / Catapult / Dear John / Five-O / Moving On / Just Like Fred Astaire / I Wanna Go Home / Attention / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Laid / Sound / Nothing But Love / Come Home / SometimesSupport
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Auckland Powerstation – 9th November 2016
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Dream Thrum / To My Surprise / Ring The Bells / Move Down South / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Say Something / Moving On / Walk Like You / Bitch / Just Like Fred Astaire / PS / I Wanna Go Home / Born Of Frustration / Attention / Laid / Come Home / Nothing But Love / Sound / SometimesSupport
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