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Mares Vivas Festival, Vila Nova Da Gaia, Portugal – 15th July 2022
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Sound / Isabella / All The Colours Of You / Seven / How Was It For You / Interrogation / God Only Knows / Stutter / Out To Get You / Zero / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Sit Down / Beautiful Beaches / Sometimes / Tomorrow / Come HomeSupport
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London The SSE Arena Wembley – 4th December 2021
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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
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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
Manchester AO Arena – 3rd December 2021
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Zero / Isabella / She's A Star / Born Of Frustration / All The Colours Of You / Many Faces / Gold Mother / Come Home / Honest Joe / Seven / Interrogation / Maria's Party / Hymn From A Village / Walk Like You / Nothing But Love / Curse Curse / Wherever It Takes Us / Sit Down / Sound / Beautiful Beaches / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Laid / SometimesSupport
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Review: Iain Key @ Louder Than War
Tonight was triumphant. James are re-energised and at the top of their game. For a long time, they were the under-dogs and pretenders to the throne; after tonight’s show, they are THE band, Mancunian or otherwise, by which others should be measured.
My gig of the year, no question.
Read the full review at LouderThanWar.com
Review: EvenTheStars.co.uk
James go further and actively seek out songs to resurrect and reinvent that had fallen by the wayside but which demand revisiting.
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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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Sedgefield Hardwick Live Festival – 18th August 2019
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Johnny Yen / Leviathan / What's It All About? / Interrogation / Heads / Tomorrow / Say Something / Just Like Fred Astaire / She's A Star / Nothing But Love / Sit Down / Many Faces / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Stutter / Attention / Laid / Come HomeSupport
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Interview: NE Volume
Saul Davies: “We actually miss a lot of important cultural information because there’s so much flying around, you know what I mean? I suddenly discovered The Cure have released an album last year and they’re one of my favourite bands and I didn’t even know they’d done it.”
Read the full interview on NEVolume.co.uk
Edinburgh Princes Street Gardens – 15th August 2019
Setlist
She’s A Star / What’s It All About / Leviathan / Sit Down / Ring The Bells / Walk Like You / Interrogation / Hank / Nothing But Love / Many Faces / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Laid / Come Home / Attention / Sound / Top Of The WorldSupport
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Review: Chris Mackinnon at Edinburgh Evening News
They’re not fans of the outdoor gig sound limiters, tonight lamenting that they have to alternate slow, quiet songs with their more raucous outings and also advising the crowd that they’re not allowed to sing along. Best of luck with that.
Read the full review at scotsman.com
Review: EvenTheStars.co.uk
Then the problems start. Jim’s bass is knackered and no amount of trying to fix it seems to work initially. Jim tells a few jokes to try and amuse us, the audience sing “Getting away with it” whilst they decide what to do. Saul suggests “an acoustic version of something and you’re not allowed to sing, let’s see what happens” as they strike up into Sit Down. It’s not immediately clear it is their best known song until Tim starts to sing and then everyone is joined in unison and one voice, with two fingers cocked to the decibel counters, apart from when the lyrics are changed to the original Rough Trade version mid-way through.
Read the full review at EvenTheStars.co.uk
Salt Lake City The Complex (Rockwell) – 27th July 2019
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Nothing But Love / Extraordinary Times / What’s It All About / Interrogation / Sometimes / Hank / Hello / Walk Like You / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Leviathan / Sound / Many FacesSupport
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Silver Spring The Fillmore – 14th July 2019
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Hank / What’s It All About / Interrogation / Just Like Fred Astaire / Born Of Frustration / Heads / Sit Down / Leviathan / Many Faces / Attention / Come HomeSupport
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Athens Release Festival – 8th June 2019
Setlist
Come Home / Ring The Bells / Nothing But Love / What's It All About / Leviathan / Five-0 / Interrogation / Sound / Johnny Yen / Picture Of This Place / Heads / Laid / Attention / Many Faces / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Sometimes (Lester Piggott) / Sit DownSupport
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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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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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Southwold Latitude Festival – 13th July 2018
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Out To Get You / Hank / What’s It All About / Born Of Frustration / Coming Home (Pt.2) / Interrogation / Heads / Stutter / Many Faces / Moving On / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Come Home / Sometimes / Attention / LaidSupport
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