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Sit Down / Sometimes / Jam J / Honest Joe / LaidSupport
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In Concert : New Rock (Westwood One) 10 Track Version
Summary
US syndicated radio show featuring highlights of the Brixton Academy 9th December 1993 gig.
Track List
Born Of Frustration / Laid / Chain Mail / Out To Get You / Ring The Bells / Low Low Low / Skindiving / PS / Lullaby / Sometimes
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| Release Name: | In Concert : New Rock (Westwood One) |
| Artist Name: | |
| Release Date: | 1st June 1994 |
| Format: | Promo Album |
| Catalogue: | Show# 94-24 |
US syndicated radio show featuring highlights of the Brixton Academy 9th December 1993 gig.
- Born Of Frustration :1992
- Chain Mail :1986
- Laid :1993
- Low Low Low :1993
- Lullaby :1993
- Out To Get You :1990
- P.S. :1993
- Ring The Bells / Ring Those Bells :1992
- Skindiving / Falsetto :1993
- Sometimes (Lester Piggott) :1993
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- In Concert Westwood One
Minneapolis First Avenue – 24th May 1994
Setlist
Don't Wait That Long / PS / Dumb Jam / Say Something / Sit Down / Basic Brian / Jam J / Honest Joe / Lullaby / Dream Thrum / Five-O / Laid / Born of Frustration / Sometimes / Chain Mail / Laid (acoustic) / Ring The Bells / SoundSupport
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Chicago Riviera – 22nd May 1994
Setlist
Johnny Yen / Sit Down / Say Something / Where Did You Go? / Dream Thrum / Don't Wait That Long / Five-O / Jam J / Honest Joe / Live A Love Of Life / Laid / Born of Frustration / Sometimes / Sound / Top Of The World / PS / StutterSupport
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Cleveland Agora Theatre – 21st May 1994
Setlist
Pressure's On / PS / Five-O / Sometimes / Tomorrow / Say Something / Don't Wait That Long / Lullaby / Maria / Honest Joe / Jam J / Live A Love Of Life / Laid / Sit Down / Johnny Yen / Out To Get You / SoundSupport
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Toronto Ontario Place Forum – 20th May 1994
Setlist
Top Of The World / Five-O / Sometimes / Heavens / PS / Maria / Say Something / Don't Wait That Long / Lullaby / Honest Joe / Jam J / Live A Love Of Life / Laid / Sit Down / Sound / Johnny Yen / Born Of Frustration / Stutter / Out To Get You / Protect MeSupport
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Toronto Sun
First things first. Tim Booth – the lead singer of James – looks really, really bad in a skirt. It was one thing for Booth and the five other members of James to don baggy, calf-length pant-suits and dresses while munching bananas, for the cover of their recent album Laid – did they mean laid, as in the French word for ugly?
But to see Booth take the Ontario Place Forum stage last night, with wild and wooly Malcolm McLaren-like hair and a dowdy dress that Granny from The Beverly Hillbillies might wear, well, let’s just say if his goal was to be the centre of attention, he succeeded. And let’s not forget his crazed and manic dance routines throughout the 90-minute performance. He’s either in line for a spot as lead dancer on the Electric Circus show, or a candidate for a strait-jacket and a room with four padded walls. Despite, or perhaps because of it all, the show worked gloriously well.
Strong, rhythmically propulsive and melodically dynamic songs like Sometimes, Say Something and Sit Down were perfect musical pivots from which Booth could flail wildly.
The 3,500-member audience loved it. Fuelled by the singer’s energy and herky-jerky antics, many in the crowd spent the show on their feet or dancing on the hills.
Other high points included a couple of new tracks that fused techno-pop with grinding industrial sounds, made all the more effective with the vocals sung through a megaphone.
It wasn’t entirely a night of throbbing rock. As with their two shows earlier this year at The Opera House, the group mesmerized the crowd with dreamy, cerebral and richly-textured mood pieces, most notably on the song Lullaby. And the band’s superb delivery of the title track from the Laid album, complete with Booth’s mid-song yodel, nearly raised the forum’s roof.
The performance was a terrific start to the summer season. But Booth needs a new fashion co-ordinator.
New Haven Toad’s Place – 9th May 1994
Setlist
Johnny Yen / Low Low Low / Say Something / Dumb Jam / Lullaby / Don't Wait That Long / Five-O / Jam J / Honest Joe / Born of Frustration / Sometimes / Sound / Out To Get You / Laid / StutterSupport
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Say Something (USA)
Summary
Cassette version of US Say Something single featuring two versions of the song plus short extracts from Sometimes and Low Low Low
Track List
Say Something / Sometimes / Low Low Low
Details
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| Release Name: | Say Something (Import, USA) |
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| Release Date: | 1st April 1994 |
| Format: | Studio Single |
| Catalogue: | 858 796-4 |
Cassette version of US Say Something single featuring two versions of the song plus short extracts from Sometimes and Low Low Low
- Low Low Low :1993
- Say Something / Carousel :1993
- Sometimes (Lester Piggott) :1993
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- Back Cover
Las Vegas Huntridge Theatre – 25th March 1994
Setlist
Johnny Yen / Don't Wait That Long / PS / Five-O / Say Something / Basic Brian / Honest Joe / Skindiving / Knuckle Too Far / Low Low Low / Laid / Sometimes / Born of Frustration / Protect Me / Out To Get You / Chain Mail / Sit DownSupport
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San Diego SU Montezuma Hall – 24th March 1994
Setlist
Johnny Yen / Say Something / PS / Five-O / Basic Brian / Honest Joe / Sometimes / Skindiving / Lullaby / Laid / Low Low Low / Come Home / Born of Frustration / Out To Get You / Chain Mail / Ring The BellsSupport
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Los Angeles Hollywood Palace – 22nd March 1994
Setlist
Laid / Heavens / Come Home / Tomorrow / Low Low Low / PS / Five-O / Sometimes / Basic Brian / Honest Joe / Skindiving / Lullaby / Laid / Born of Frustration / Say Something / SoundSupport
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Los Angeles Hollywood Palace – 21st March 1994
Setlist
(incomplete) : Pressure's On / Don't Wait That Long / PS / Five-O / Sometimes / Basic Brian / Skindiving / Honest Joe / Lullaby / Laid / Sit DownSupport
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Cathy Maestri, The Press Enterprise
James was deft and dazzling, masterfully building its Monday night concert from a hypnotic, atmospherics-laden beginning to a wild exuberance and a big, sweeping sound.
It’s taken the English band nearly 10 years to break in America, but the success of “Laid” is paying off; the sellout crowd at the Palace was waiting for the big hit, yet everyone knew the words to a somber album track, “Out to Get You.”
The six-piece band’s different elements shone brilliantly, from David Baynton-Power’s crisp drumming to the chiming sound of Larry Gott’s slide guitar, while Saul Davies played his violin to soothe at times and grind at others.
The center of the magic is enigmatic singer Tim Booth, his clean voice calmly hypnotic. But his shy demeanor is belied when the music seems to possess him and he goes into spasms, his thin body wracked as he dances.
James opened with a series of low-key atmospheric numbers, easing into the haunting “P.S.” and “Five-O” from “Laid. ” Mood established, they stepped things up with “Sometimes (Lester Piggott),” Booth grinning as the crowd became fluid and started to bounce.
For the night’s most spectacular production, a mirrored ball at Booth’s feet during “Skin Diving” projected a stunning galaxy of colored bubbles, winding him into its center.
The audience exploded for “Laid,” which got a very basic treatment from the band while the crowd concentrated on jumping around.
The wonderfully anthemic “Sit Down” was met with a thunderous response – ironically, Voice of the Beehive covered the song at the Palace not so long ago, when James was still relegated to playing small clubs in LA.
The pace continued with “Low Low Low” and its wobbly percussion, the ringing “Say Something” and the war whoops of “Born of Frustration.”
It took awhile for the stunned (or exhausted) crowd to bring the band back for its semi-acoustic encore, which fittingly closed with the uplifting “Ring the Bells.”