Tag Archives: song-many-faces
Lisbon Campo Pequeno – 22nd April 2022
Setlist
Johnny Yen / Waltzing Along / Isabella / Beautiful Beaches / She's A Star / Born Of Frustration / Five-O / Walk Like You / Wherever It Takes Us / Honest Joe / Out To Get You / Hymn From A Village / Runaground / All The Colours Of You / Many Faces / Come Home / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Sometimes / Curse Curse / Ring The Bells / Laid / ZeroSupport
The Slow Readers Club, SurmaMore Information & Reviews
Rescheduled from 13th December 2021
Review: David Brown @ Even The Stars
“James are a band best experienced when you leave your expectations at the door and the real lack of them and the go with the flow mentality of the Portuguese really makes the shows out here a special event. There’s no mass exodus to the bar or toilets when they deign to play a song off their latest hit record, and James still have them despite what many believe, no shouts for a particular song, no evening ruined because they didn’t play X and Y. It’s very much about the love of the music, an appreciation of how it brings people together and the fact that we, and they, are here at all. Connections are more important than ever in the post-COVID world and nights like this provide a reminder of the good things that we missed out on when everything went dark.”
Read the full review at Even The Stars
Porto Super Bock Arena (Pavilhão Rosa Mota) – 21st April 2022
Setlist
Zero / Isabella / She's A Star / Born Of Frustration / Wherever It Takes Us / Come Home / Walk Like You / Runaground / Five-O / Destiny Calling / Curse Curse / Hymn From A Village / Out To Get You / All The Colours Of You / Many Faces / Moving On / Beautiful Beaches / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Sometimes / Ring The Bells / LaidSupport
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Rescheduled from 12th December 2021
Review: David Brown @ Even The Stars
“It’s past the midnight curfew by the time band finish (although there’s no need to rush for last minute transport here unlike back home when the world stops around eleven o’clock) with a rousing combination of Ring The Bells that has the whole place up on their feet and bouncing and a slightly subdued in comparison Laid. The look on the band’s faces as they take a lingering au revoir from the crowd very much confirms a very special and mutual bond of true love between James and their Portuguese crowd, borne of appreciation on one side by the fact the band treat here like their second home and play where others don’t venture this far west across the Iberian peninsula, on the other by the audience’s willingness to take the band for what and who they are, coming with open hearts and minds and not arriving with expectations of this song or that song being in the set and having their night ruined by their absence. It’s a perfect and beautiful symbiotic love affair.”
Read the full review at Even The Stars
Porto Sala M.Ou.Co – 19th April 2022
Setlist
Isabella / Destiny Calling / Wherever It Takes Us / All The Colours Of You / Many Faces / Honest Joe / Live A Love Of Life / Gold Mother / Walk Like You / Five-O / Runaground / Ring The Bells / Attention / Curse CurseSupport
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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
Manchester AO Arena – 3rd December 2021
Setlist
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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Dublin 3arena – 1st December 2021
Setlist
Isabella / Walk Like You / Born Of Frustration / She's A Star / Come Home / Gold Mother / All The Colours Of You / Many Faces / Just Like Fred Astaire / Curse Curse / Honest Joe / Wherever It Takes Us / Miss America / Maria's Party / Hymn From A Village / Sit Down / Sound / Beautiful Beaches / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / LaidSupport
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Glasgow The SSE Hydro – 30th November 2021
Setlist
Zero / Isabella / Born Of Frustration / Five-O / Seven / All The Colours Of You / Many Faces / Walk Like You / Curse Curse / Honest Joe / She's A Star / Wherever It Takes Us / Hymn From A Village / Sound / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Come Home / Beautiful Beaches / Sit Down / LaidSupport
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Review: Fiona Shepherd @ The Scotsman
“We’re ageing like wine,” sang Tim Booth on opening number Zero – fair comment for a canny band who remain a limber live collective even if parts of their set were drawn out.
Read the full review at TheScotsman.com
Review: EvenTheStars.co.uk
“The thrilling energy of a nine-piece James that is on a mission and having the best time accomplishing it.”
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Cardiff Motorpoint Arena – 28th November 2021
Setlist
Zero / Isabella / She's A Star / Come Home / God Only Knows / Honest Joe / Miss America / Gold Mother / All The Colours Of You / Many Faces / Moving On / Born Of Frustration / Wherever It Takes Us / Hymn From A Village / Curse Curse / Sound / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Seven / Beautiful Beaches / Laid / Sit DownSupport
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Review: EvenTheStars.co.uk
It’s almost as if Tim being prevented from going out to the crowd has made them reconsider the inter-band interactions and created something that’s equally as, if not more, powerful.
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Review: Scientists of Sound
For anyone who’s been fortunate enough to see James before will know all too well no performance would be complete without booth’s convulsive dancing and tonight the crowd got plenty to feast their eyes upon as he jolted around with arms and hands flailing.
Eternally grateful for the crowds adoration, Tim’s reaction throughout is earnest. It’s clear to see the appreciation the band have for their fans, reciprocated in huge cheers and smiles throughout as they churned out 2 hours of live music.
Read the full review at sos-music.co.uk
Birmingham Utilita Arena – 26th November 2021
Setlist
Zero / Isabella / She’s A Star / Born Of Frustration / All The Colours Of You / Many Faces / Tomorrow / Honest Joe / Walk Like You / Moving On / Hymn From A Village / Come Home / Curse Curse / Wherever It Takes Us / Getting Away With It / Sound / Beautiful Beaches / Laid / Sit Down / SometimesSupport
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Review: Tony Larner @ Birmingham Mail
The energy was there from the moment Tim and bandmates burst onto the stage to sing the superb Zero, from the new album All The Colours of You, which has possibly the best opening live ever: “We’re All Gonna Die.”
The new release is clearly heading for classic status as other tracks that had the audience singing, swaying and dancing along included the stunning Beautiful Beaches and All The Colours of You.
Read the full review at BirminghamMail.co.uk
Review: Damian Sullivan @ MaximumVolumeMusic.com
I had a discussion with a good friend the other night about bands that seem to be able to play arenas and it feels as though you`re in a small venue. James are that kind of band where wherever you are you feel included.
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Review: EvenTheStars.co.uk
It’s their lifeblood, their oxygen and when it’s flowing at its peak, then James deliver shows that transcend the traditional concert and tonight feels like one of those special times.
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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
Isle Of Wight Festival – 17th September 2021
Setlist
Isabella / Ring The Bells / Born Of Frustration / Sound / Walk Like You / Stutter / Zero / All The Colours Of You / Many Faces / Beautiful Beaches / Sit Down / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / SometimesSupport
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