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Thetford Forest – 19th June 2025

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Sound / Five-O / Way Over Your Head / Waltzing Along / She's A Star / Leviathan / Better With You / Stay / PS / Say Something / Tomorrow / Shadow Of A Giant / Heads / Beautiful Beaches / Sit Down / Sometimes (Lester Piggott) / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Laid

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Scarborough Open Air Theatre – 9th September 2021

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All The Colours Of You / Isabella / Come Home / Moving On / Walk Like You / All Good Boys / Born Of Frustration / Sit Down / Wherever It Takes Us / Zero / Maria's Party / Stutter / She's A Star / Beautiful Beaches / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Sound / Sometimes (Lester Piggott) / Tomorrow / Laid

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Review: Ross Heppenstall @ Yorkshire Post

“Booth’s effervescence, incredible energy and sheer love for what he does kept everyone singing and dancing along before a stunning encore which included Sometimes, Tomorrow and the all-time favourite of many, Laid.

It was brilliant stuff from start to finish which left many of the band’s followers already planning their next James gig.”

Read the full review at YorkshirePost.co.uk

Review: Iain McClay @ 3 Songs & Out

If I had one complaint it was that the gig had to finish, it felt like one of those nights where the band and the crowd were in perfect syncopation, even the confusion about the song to be played added to the night, making you feel this was a gig you would remember for a long while.

If you haven’t seen James live then you should, Tim Booth is one of British musics great frontmen, every member of the band is spot on, even the newer members who clearly haven’t been there from the start. If anything this is a band who are getting better and better. Go see them!

Read the full review at ThreeSongsAndOut.com

Manchester Heaton Park – 15th June 2019

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Sit Down / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Leviathan / Nothing But Love / What's It All About / Out To Get You / Heads / Many Faces / Come Home / Sometimes (Lester Piggott)

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Review: EvenTheStars.co.uk

“Tim spends half the set down on the barrier, diving in the crowd at points, creating a connection with those at the front, but possibly detaching from those who can only watch on the screens.”

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Malta Aria Complex – 12th June 2019

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Lose Control / Extraordinary Times / What's It All About / Leviathan / Say Something / She’s A Star / Hello / / Just Like Fred Astaire / Heads / Nothing But Love / Sit Down / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Sometimes (Lester Piggott) / Many Faces / Come Home / Laid

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Athens Release Festival – 8th June 2019

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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 Down

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Thessaloniki Fix Factory Of Sound – 7th June 2019

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What's It All About / Extraordinary Times / Born Of Frustration / Ring The Bells / Hello / Five-0 / Moving On / Nothing But Love / Picture Of This Place / Laid / Just Like Fred Astaire / Leviathan / Attention / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Sound / Heads / Come Home / Many Faces / Sometimes (Lester Piggott)

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Scorrier The Great Estate Festival – 1st June 2019

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Sit Down / Extraordinary Times / Out To Get You / Five-0 / Picture Of This Place / Ring The Bells / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Pressure's On / What's It All About / Top Of The World / Heads / Feet Of Clay / Attention / Come Homes / Sometimes (Lester Piggott)

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Laid / Wah Wah Super Deluxe Edition

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Laid / Wah Wah Super Deluxe Edition, a 2015 Compilation Box Set by James.

Summary

This re-issue of Laid and Wah Wah combined both albums as originally intended by the band, and was released 11 years ago. The boxset includes two extra CDs of rehearsals, demos, B-sides and radio sessions. The boxset also include a booklet, prints and badges.

Track List

Disc 1 – Laid:

Out To Get You / Sometimes (Lester Piggott) / Dream Thrum / One Of The Three / Say Something / Five-O / P.S. / Everybody Knows / Knuckle Too Far / Low Low Low / Laid / Lullaby / Skindiving

Disc 2 – Wah Wah:
Hammer Strings / Pressure’s On / Jam J / Frequency Dip / Lay The Law Down / Burn The Cat / Maria / Low Clouds / Building A Fire / Gospel Oak / DVV / Say Say Something / Rhythmic Dreams / Dead Man / Rain Whistling / Basic Brian / Low Clouds / Bottom Of The Well / Honest Joe / Arabic Agony / Tomorrow / Laughter / Sayonara

Disc 3 – Rehearsals, Demos & Jams:
Carousel / Unknown Track 8 / Dream Thrum / Chicken Goth / Jam J / You Were Born / Bruce Jam 1 (Mix 1) / Jam D Rhythmic Dreams / Jam E / Jam 11 / Jam 12B / Jam P / Jam P2 / Jam Q / Jam R / Who Is Gospel Oak? / Falsetto / Jam 13

Disc 4 – B-Sides, Radio Sessions & Live:
America / Building A Charge / Wah Wah Kits / The Lake / Seconds Away / Say Something / Assassin / Laid / Low Low Low / Sometimes / Tomorrow / Five – O / Jam J (Arena Dub) / Jam J (Sabresonic Tremelo Dub)

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Release Name: Laid / Wah Wah Super Deluxe Edition
Artist Name: James
Release Date: 23rd March 2015
Format: Compilation Box Set
Catalogue: ASIN B00RYGDNQ6

According to Tim Booth, Laid and Wah Wah are “the culmination of playing four or five hours a day four or five days a week in Manchester and the new band adapting to that. It is about the transition of becoming more of a band but with Brian at the helm.” Booth remembers jamming “hundreds of songs that never saw the light of day” and guitarist Larry Gott suggests it might have been “as many as 340 tracks.” The simultaneous, coupled reissues are particularly notable, however, due to the fact that producer Brian Eno and the band had originally favoured releasing the records as a double package.

Recorded concurrently in 1993 during a frenetic six week period at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Complex, the albums were always intended as companion pieces – Laid being referred to as the “song” album whilst Wah Wah was known as the “experimental” or “jamming” album – but the record company’s decision to release them months apart put paid to this conception: Laid, released in the UK in October 1993, reached the No.3 spot in the UK and became the band’s biggest album to date in the US, selling 600,000 copies and breaking the band in the USA in the process but the subsequent follow-up Wah Wah effectively sunk the band over there and – according to Booth – “put paid to us breaking America at all!”.More pertinently perhaps, by the time Wah Wah came out, U2 (and Eno) had released Zooropa and “everyone thought we were copying off them instead of the other way round!”The 4CD 12’x 12’ Super Deluxe box set features 20 previously unreleased recordings.

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The Gathering Sound

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The Gathering Sound, a 2012 Compilation Box Set by James.

Summary

The Gathering Sound delivered a stunning anthology of James’ long musical career. It contained all the studio albums up to its release 14 years ago, plus many rarities and demos, a DVD, booklets, stickers and badges.

Track List

As well as four rarities and live discs, all the tracks from the following studio albums are included (and non-album tracks from the listed compilations) on a USB:

Full track listing from included studio albums

Stutter: Skullduggery / Scarecrow / So Many Ways / Just Hip / Johnny Yen / Summer Song / Really Hard / Billy’s Shirts / Why So Close / Withdrawn / Black Hole

Strip-mine: What For / Charlie Dance / Fairground / Are You Ready / Medieval / Not There / Ya Ho / Riders / Vulture / Stripmining – Refrain

Gold Mother: Come Home / Government Walls / God Only Knows / You Can’t Tell How Much Suffering (On A Face That’s Always Smiling) / Crescendo / How Was It For You? / Hang On / Walking The Ghost / Gold Mother / Top Of The World / Sit Down / Come Home (Flood Mix) / Lose Control

Seven: Born Of Frustration / Ring The Bells / Sound / Bring A Gun / Mother / Don’t Wait That Long / Live A Love Of Life / Next Lover / Heavens / Protect Me / Seven

Laid: Out To Get You /  Sometimes (Lester Piggott) /  Dream Thrum /  One Of The Three /  Say Something /  Five-O / P.S. / Everybody Knows /  Knuckle Too Far /  Low Low Low /  Laid / Lullaby / Skindiving

Wah Wah: Hammer Strings / Pressure’s On / Jam J / Frequency Dip / Lay The Law Down / Burn The Cat / Maria / Low Clouds / Building A Fire / Gospel Oak / DVV / Say Say Something / Rhythmic Dreams / Dead Man / Rain Whistling / Basic Brian / Low Clouds / Bottom Of The Well / Honest Joe / Arabic Agony / Tomorrow / Laughter / Sayonara

Best Of: Destiny Calling / Runaground

Millionaires: Crash / Just Like Fred Astaire / I Know What I’m Here For / Shooting My Mouth Off / We’re Going to Miss You / Strangers / Hello / Afro Lover / Surprise / Dumb Jam / Someone’s Got It In For Me / Vervaceous

Pleased To Meet You: Space / Falling Down / English Beefcake / Junkie / Pleased To Meet You / The Shining / Senorita / Gaudi / What Is It Good For / Give It Away / Fine / Getting Away with It (All Messed Up) / Alaskan Pipeline

Fresh As A Daisy: Who Are You? / Chameleon

Hey Ma: Bubbles / Hey Ma / Waterfall / Oh My Heart / Boom Boom / Semaphore / Upside / Whiteboy / 72 / Monsters and Heroes and Men / I Wanna Go Home

The Night Before: It’s Hot / Crazy / Ten Below / Porcupine / Shine/ Dr Hellier / Hero

The Morning After: Got the Shakes / Dust Motes / Tell Her I Said So / Kaleidoscope / Rabbit Hole / Make For This City / Lookaway / Fear

Rarities Disc: Willow / Say It With Flowers / Just Hipper / Mosquito / Left Out of Her Will / Doubts / Count Your Blessings / Weather Change / Pressure’s On / Jam 1 / Jam 2 / It’s a Fine Line / Hedex / Long To See / Scratch Card / I Thought You Were / All My Letters / Dust Motes

Live Disc: Folklore / Announcement / Burned / Hymn From a Village / Hang On / Maria’s Party / America / Sit Down / Sound / Honest Joe / Come Home / Johnny Yen / What For / Stutter / Fine / Bubbles / At The Seams

DVD – Come Home Live: 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

Vinyl: Sit Down / How Was It For You / Gregory’s Town / Ring Those Bells

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Release Name: The Gathering Sound
Artist Name: James
Release Date: 10th December 2012
Format: Compilation Box Set
Catalogue: B01G7OHLC2. Barcode: 602527531298

The Gathering Sound is a stunning anthology of James’ long musical career. It contains all the studio albums up to publication, many rarities and demos, a DVD, booklets, stickers and badges.

The studio albums are: Stutter, Strip-mine, Gold Mother, Seven, Laid, Wah Wah, The Best Of / Unhinged (Compilation), Millionaires, Pleased To Meet You, Fresh as a Daisy – The Singles (Compilation), Hey Ma, The Night Before, The Morning After

The music is spread over a USB back-catalogue, three CDs or rarities and live recordings, a DVD and 12″ Vinyl. All the studio albums are on a unique J-shaped USB stick apart from The Morning After The Night Before, which is on CD (as a single album as the US import version was).

Also included are a 6-page A5 booklet featuring personal contributions from each of the band members and those associated with the group, including One Of The Three curator Dave Brown.

There is a 12″ scrapbook featuring previously unseen and rare photos, memorabilia, cuttings and many other items straight out of James personal archives including a complete timeline of James’s career annotated by the band.

And finally postcards, badges and sticky satin replica backstage passes, all in a 12″ presentation box.

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Positivus Festival, Salacgriva, Latvia – 16th July 2011

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Seven / Tomorrow / Waltzing Along / Waterfall / Ring The Bells / Say Something / Ps / I Wanna Go Home / Whiteboy / Destiny Calling / Come Home / Stutter / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Sit Down / Sometimes (Lester Piggott) / Laid / Sound

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Explanada del Estadio Monumental, Lima, Peru – 30th March 2011

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Born of Frustration / Seven / Ring the Bells / It's Hot / Tell Her I Said So / She's a Star / Say Something / P.S. / Five-O / Jam J / Stutter / Out to Get You / Whiteboy / Sound / Tomorrow / Sit Down / I Wanna Go Home / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Sometimes (Lester Piggott) / Laid

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Isle Of Wight Festival – 13th June 2010

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Ten Below / Dr Hellier / She's a Star / Ring the Bells / I Wanna Go Home / Sometimes (Lester Piggott) / Dust Motes / Out to Get You / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Tomorrow / Upside / Johnny Yen / Sit Down / Sound / Laid

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