See attached press clipping.
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James - Come Home Live, a 1991 Live VHS by James.
Released on video in March 1991 and on DVD in December 2012 as part of the Gathering Sound Boxset.
Come Home / What’s The World / Whoops / Lose Control / Sunday Morning / Ring The Bells / Bring A Gun / Government Walls / Walking The Ghost / Next Lover / God Only Knows / What For / Sit Down / How Was It For You? / Stutter
| Release Name: | James - Come Home Live |
| Artist Name: | James |
| Release Date: | March 1991 |
| UK Chart: | n/a |
| Format: | Live VHS |
| Label: | PolyGram Music Video |
| Catalogue: | VHS Video - 083 092-3 |
| Produced: | Gavin Taylor |
| Engineered: | Nick Ryle |
| Mixed: | Mark Stent |
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| Recorded: | Recorded at the Manchester G-Mex – 8th December 1990 |
Recorded at the Manchester G-Mex on 8th December 1990. Released on video in March 1991 and on DVD in December 2012 as part of the Gathering Sound Boxset.
Recorded at the Manchester G-Mex on 8th December 1990. Released on video in March 1991 and on DVD in December 2012 as part of the Gathering Sound Boxset.
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A secret warm-up show in Paris starting with many new songs from the studio sessions of what would become the Seven album, including Pressure’s On which would resurface on Wah Wah and Somebody Help Me (a.k.a. Singer’s A Liar) that was never played again or released at the time.
James played an impromptu gig on the roof of Manchester’s Piccadilly Hotel last Wednesday January 30 [1991]. This was to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Beatles last ever gig which was on the roof of the Apple Records building in London’s Saville Row.
Over 5,000 people blocked off the streets around the hotel to hear James play five songs: “Come Home”, “How Was It For You?”, “Sit Down” and new song “Ring The Bells”.
The band had to cut their set short because guitarist Larry’s fingers had frozen to the fretboard! They were without trumpet player Andy who is in hospital having an operation on his foot.
James singer Tim Booth said last week “The idea was to do something a little unexpected even though it had been done a few times before. It sounded like a fun idea to spring a surprise and we only announced it at 8 o’clock that morning.”
This gig was filmed for the legendary Come Home Live video.
James are a phenomenon. Selling out the massive G-Mex centre for two nights in succession is no mean feat, especially when you haven’t even had a hit single. James fans are however not drawn from the ranks of fickle teenage youth, but from those fans with taste for a more intense kind of pop experience.
The seven-piece band fall clearly within the pop lineage begun by The Smiths, inspiring the same kind of passionate, almost religious devotion.
They certainly heated up the chill of the huge ex-railway terminus with some of their classic cult singles like Come Home and What For, which seemed to transform them a year or two ago from a student-type band to one with a massive groundswell of support – anthems of solidarity for alienated misfit youth, though plenty of them were alienated further through being cut off through the atrocious weather.
Unlike many of the Manchester bands, James’ lyrics, courtesy of the charismatic singer Tim Booth are intelligent and complex. But they can have a singalonga quality as well and the massed hordes sang with fervour to numbers like Government Walls and God Only Knows. In fact, Booth grabbed the camera from the crew filming the band and turned it on the crowd. They, said the star of the show, were the real stars of the show.
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Ring The Bells is track two on the 1992 James album Seven.
It was first aired on the World Cup tour of 1990, after which it became a fixture in the James setlist, appearing in the Come Home video. An obvious choice as the follow up to Sit Down, it was rejected in favour of the less immediate Sound.
Tim often tells a story of a group of kids in an American religious cult that used the song as their anthem and their inspiration to break free from their parents.
Ring The Bells was also released as in live acoustic form on the 1994 Greenpeace compilation CD “Alternative NRG” and this version of the track was also featured in an episode of the X-files. It remained a band favourite in acoustic performances, appearing on the Unhinged bonus CD with the Best Of.
A demo version of the track from January 1990 entitled Ring Those Bells appeared on the 12″ that formed part of the 2012 The Gathering Sound boxset.
| Song: | Ring The Bells / Ring Those Bells |
| Released: | 17th February 1992 |
| Main Associated Album (or Single): | Seven |
| First Heard Live: | Newcastle Mayfair – 3rd December 1990 |