JAMES : WEMBLEY ARENA 19.1.91

Setlist : Come Home, How Was It For You?, Johnny Yen, Sit Down, Stutter

Show Info : Broadcast live on Radio 1 as part of the Great British Music Weekend organised by Johnathon Ross and also featuring Happy Mondays, Northside, The Farm and 808 State, James were second on the bill

Mr S, Sounds

The backdrop is swathed in floating flowers and Mysteron hoops as James belt out "Come Home" and "How Was It For You?", Tim Booth looking like the unlikeliest teen idol yet with his Ten Pole Tudor chic and odd fondness for showing off fingers of snot to the cameras. "We thought you'd only be into dance music," says this disgusting but charming frontman, clearly amazed by the warm reception he's getting.

"Sit Down" is rapturously received and, as James climax with a flurryof scything violins and furious rocking axework accompanied by a mad strobelight frenzy, you can't help feeling that very soon they're going to be massive.