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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 / Sometimes

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Happy Mondays / Girlband

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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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Darlington Arena – 5th August 2023

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Sound / Isabella / Waltzing Along / Born Of Frustration / Walk Like You / Hymn From A Village / Come Home / Zero / She's A Star / Out To Get You / Say Something / Sit Down / Ring The Bells / Beautiful Beaches / Getting Away With It / Sometimes / Laid

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Editors, Maximo Park, The Kairos, Pigeon Detectives, Pale Blue Eyes

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Review: Andrew White @ The Northern Echo

“Booth was at his magnetic best when the climbed down from the stage and into the crowd for ‘Come Home’, walking among the faithful and rising above them by climbing onto a fence to deliver a tour de force vocal. It was spine-tingling stuff.”

Read the full review at The Northern Echo

Review: Lynne Thwaites and Thomas Jackson @ So.co

“Tonight we’re treated to the hits (and there’s plenty of those!) alongside some deeper cuts. The biggest cheers are reserved for the big three of course (Sit Down, Getting Away With It and show-closer Laid) but the band could have omitted them, as they often do, and the show would have been no less superb. “

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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 / Laid

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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)

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Razorlight / The Clause / Tom A Smith / Arms Against

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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.”

Read the full review at Even The Stars

 

County Laois Forest Fest – 21st July 2023

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Walk Like You / Isabella / Sound / Waltzing Along / Curse Curse / All The Colours Of You / She's A Star / Five-O / Ring The Bells / Sit Down / Out To Get You / Beautiful Beaches / Tomorrow / Born Of Frustration / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Sometimes / Laid

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Thessaloniki Moni Lazariston – 12th July 2023

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Isabella / Waltzing Along / Curse Curse / Senorita / All The Colours Of You / She's A Star / Johnny Yen / Say Something / All Good Boys / Moving On / Out To Get You / PS / Attention / Sit Down / Tomorrow / Born Of Frustration / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Walk Like You / Beautiful Beaches / Sometimes / Laid

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Bristol Canons Marsh Amphitheatre- 23rd June 2023

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Walk Like You / Ring The Bells / Born Of Frustration / What For / Sit Down / Isabella / Interrogation / Johnny Yen / All Good Boys / Just Like Fred Astaire / Out To Get You / She's A Star / Come Home / All The Colours Of You / Beautiful Beaches / Sound / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Laid

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Emily Breeze / The Kairos

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Ragley Hall Camper Calling Festival – 28th August 2022

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Zero / Ring The Bells / Isabella / Tomorrow / She's A Star / Five-O / Seven / Interrogation / All The Colours Of You / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Waltzing Along / Beautiful Beaches / Sit Down / Sound / Laid

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Review: James Iles @ Redditch Standard

“James picked up the pace to headline the last night and close a brilliant weekend on the beautiful Ragley Hall estate.

The atmosphere exploded into life when they took to the stage with the effervescent frontman Tim Booth (now 62!) throwing shapes like he did in their late 80s/1990s heyday.

With an energy that defies his years and put us fortysomething dads to shame they did not disappoint.”

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Southsea Victorious Festival – 26th August 2022

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Isabella / Ring The Bells / Come Home / Born Of Frustration / All The Colours Of You / Out To Get You / Gettting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Beautiful Beaches / Sit Down / Sound

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Sheffield Tramlines Festival – 22nd July 2022

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Come Home / Isabella / Born Of Frustration / Curse Curse / All The Colours Of You / Walk Like You / Sit Down / Beautiful Beaches / Laid / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Sound

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Review: David Brown @ Even The Stars

“Tim takes himself down to the audience, much to the initial shock of security, and lifts himself up on to the barrier, first during Born Of Frustration where he risks getting whacked on the head by an inflatable penis that’s held aloft near the front for most of the set and then during Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) where he dives headlong in to crowdsurf. He’s not carried as far back as he’d usually be but it’s accompanied by a huge roar as those further back see it on the big screen. Sit Down and Laid in particular have the crowd bouncing and as they finish with Sound and Andy stands aloft on the monitors as Dave and Debbie’s drums combination bring the song to a powerful finale, it feels like they’ve convinced much of the crowd that they’re a bit more than one of those bands their parents used to listen to and the two or three songs they might have known beforehand.”

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Review: Scott Ancliffe @ Yorkshire Post

“Manchester-rockers James also had a standout set with enigmatic front man Tim Booth crowd surfing and climbing the barricade to serenade the fans. Classic hits Sit Down, Laid and Born of Frustration were all crowd pleasers.”

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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 Home

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Rhyl Events Arena – 8th July 2022

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Walk Like You / Ring The Bells / Sit Down / Live A Love Of Life / Wherever It Takes Us / Moving On / She's A Star / Five-O / Lose Control / Zero / Curse Curse / Isabella / Beautiful Beaches / How Was It For You / Sound / Stutter / Come Home / Sometimes

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Lightning Seeds, The K's

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