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Manchester Apollo Music Feeds Festival – 27th February 2024
Setlist
Is This Love / Say Something / Government Walls / Tomorrow / She's A Star / LaidSupport
Starsailor / The Farm / Tom A Smith / Rosellas / Idol GiantsMore Information & Reviews
A six song set with an orchestra conducted by Joe Duddell as part of the Music Feeds Festival to raise money for the Trussell Trust.
James performed as a five-piece with Tim, Jim, Saul, Andy and Dave accompanied by Rowetta on backing vocals.
1997 Singles & B-Sides
Summary
The sixth of a series of streaming-only compilations of singles and b-sides from James years with Fontana / Mercury. 1997 features three singles – She’s A Star, Tomorrow and Waltzing Along
Track List
She’s A Star / Chunny Pops / Fishknives / Van Gogh’s Dog / Tomorrow / Gone Too Far / Honest Pleasure / All One To Me / Waltzing Along (Single Version) / Your Story / Where You Gonna Run / Long To Be Right / Thursday Treatments / She’s A Star Dave Angel’s PAT Remix / Tomorrow Full On Vibe Mix / Waltzing Along Disco Socks Remix / She’s A Star Andrea’s Biosphere Dub / Tomorrow Archive Mix / Waltzing Along Flytronix Mix / Tomorrow Droppin’ Cake Mix / Waltzing Along Havin’ It Rock Opera Mix / Come Home Weatherall – Skunk Weed Skank Mix
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| Release Name: | 1997 Singles & B-Sides |
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| Release Date: | 8th December 2023 |
| Format: | Compilation Album |
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The sixth of a series of streaming-only compilations of singles and b-sides from James years with Fontana / Mercury. 1997 features three singles – She’s A Star, Tomorrow and Waltzing Along
- All One To Me :1997
- Chunney Chops (a.k.a. Chunny Pops) :1997
- Come Home :1989
- Fishknives :1997
- Gone Too Far :1997
- Honest Pleasure :1997
- Long To Be Right :1997
- She’s A Star :1997
- Thursday Treatments :1997
- Tomorrow :1994
- Van Gogh’s Dog :1997
- Waltzing Along :1997
- Where You Gonna Run? :1997
- Your Story :1997
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London Shepherd’s Bush Empire – 30th October 2023
Setlist
Sound / Ring The Bells / Curse Curse / Walk Like You / Interrogation / Tomorrow / Come Home / She's A Star / Johnny Yen / All Good Boys / Sit Down / Beautiful Beaches / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Sometimes / LaidSupport
The SnutsMore Information & Reviews
Review: David Brown @ Even The Stars
“The buzz in the room is electric as the lights go up. It’s rare for James to play a show this small these days, their June 2024 show is at the mammoth O2, 10 times the size of this. They make those arenas feel intimate, but tonight you could see the whites in their eyes, smell the intensity of the performance and revel in the fact that it could all coming crashing down in an instant. The song choice might have been more straight-forward than usual, but this band is all about the delivery of them. And that was as unpredictably unpredictable as ever.”
Read the full review at Even The Stars
Review: Scott Colothan @ Hello Rayo
“Headlined by indie icons James with very special guests The Snuts, all 2,000 tickets to the event sold out within minutes of going on sale in early September.”
Read the full review at Hello Rayo
Video
Bath Forum – 24th October 2023
Setlist
Dust Motes / Beautiful Beaches / Moving On / The Shining / Seven / Ten Below / We're Going To Miss You / She's A Star / The Lake / Nothing But Love / Born Of Frustration / Magic Bus / Sit Down / Love Make A Fool / Someone's Got It In For Me / Say Something / Riders / Alaskan Pipeline / Hello / All The Colours Of You / Many Faces / Tomorrow / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / SometimesSupport
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Originally scheduled for 15th May 2023
Review: David Brown @ Even The Stars
“There’s a magic whenever James take the stage, an unpredictability about what you’re going to get even if the setlist doesn’t spring any surprises. They’re a band that thrive on the mood, both in the band and in the room, and this collaboration has effectively fused an orchestra and choir that have wholeheartedly bought into the band’s ethos on to the already hefty nine of them. These shows may never happen again, it’s twelve years since the first orchestral tour, and 2024 sees a new album and the campaign that comes with it out in the world and James continuing to look forward as a band to their next twist and turn, but they’ll live long in the memory.”
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CA Vilar De Mouros – 26th August 2023
Setlist
Isabella / Waltzing Along / Laid / Out To Get You / She's A Star / Medieval / All The Colours Of You / Many Faces / Say Something / Sit Down / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / SometimesSupport
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London Crystal Palace Bowl – 11th August 2023
Setlist
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 / SometimesSupport
Happy Mondays / GirlbandMore Information & Reviews
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.”
Read the full review at Music OMH
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…”
Read the full review at The Telegraph (paywall)
Darlington Arena – 5th August 2023
Setlist
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 / LaidSupport
Editors, Maximo Park, The Kairos, Pigeon Detectives, Pale Blue EyesMore Information & Reviews
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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Dundee Slessor Gardens – 28th July 2023
Setlist
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)Support
Razorlight / The Clause / Tom A Smith / Arms AgainstMore Information & Reviews
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
