JAMES - NEWS UPDATES - DECEMBER 2001
Update 26.12.01
The official James website has an exclusive download of a remix of Fine from the Pleased To Meet You album by Mark Hunter (Chunney Lad). The file is in mp3 format.
Tim Booth's own website - www.timbooth.net - will now not be up and running until the New Year as opposed to December as was announced in his departure statement.
Update 21.12.01
T-shirts and other merchandise from James recent tour should be available on the official merchandise site www.bandmad.com early in the New Year. It was originally scheduled to be available from last Monday, but was delayed.
Update 14.12.01
Website Ananova has reported that the DVD of the Manchester show is due for a February release. As yet there has however been no official release date publicised.
Update 12.12.01
The two solo albums - Mosquito and Another Small Machine - are now available again to buy from Opal Music for £10.95 each.
Andy Diagram's band The Spaceheads are on tour in Europe over the next couple of months. Dates confirmed so far are :
December 14 - Nijmegen Extrapol, Netherlands
December 15 - Brussels Action Against Euro Summit - contact novacinema@village.uunet.be for further info
December 16th - Louvain Le Neuve, Belgium
January 12th - Micro Music Theatre, Athens, Greece
February 1st - Espace Julien, Marseille, France
February 20th - Nouveau Casino, Paris, France
February 21st - Lune des Pirates, Amiens, France
Click here for the Spaceheads website
Update 11.12.01
James played an emotional final show with Tim Booth at Wembley Arena last night to a crowd of about 10,000 people. The set included guest appearances by Andy Diagram, Larry Gott and Brian Eno.
The setlist was as follows : Laid, Waltzing Along, Tomorrow, She's A Star, I Know What I'm Here For, God Only Knows, Protect Me, Out To Get You, Hymn From A Village, Someone's Got It In For Me, Getting Away With It (All Messed Up), English Beefcake, Sometimes, Johnny Yen, Born of Frustration, Ring The Bells / Top Of The World, Sound / Come Home, Sit Down
For a review click here
Update 9.12.01
The b-sides compilation Ultra failed to reach this week's Top 75 album chart.
Update 8.12.01
Jim Glennie has announced in a statement that James intend to continue following Tim's departure. Click here for the full statement.
James played Thursday night at Birmingham NEC to a crowd of about 6,000 people. The setlist ran as follows:
Say Something, Waltzing Along, Laid, I Know What I'm Here For, English Beefcake, God Only Knows, Protect Me (acoustic), Getting Away With It (All Messed Up), Stutter, Vervaceous, She's A Star, Born of Frustration, Come Home, Tomorrow / Top Of The World, Sound / Out To Get You, Sit Down
For a review click here
The following night, James played a triumphant homecoming show in Manchester in front of a sell-out crowd of 16,000. Ex-band members Larry Gott and Andy Diagram made guest appearances.
The show was filmed for a DVD release early in the new year.
The setlist ran as follows :
Say Something, Waltzing Along, Sometimes, Laid, I Know What I'm Here For, God Only Knows, Someone's Got It In For Me, Vervaceous, Protect Me (acoustic), Out To Get You, Hymn From A Village, Johnny Yen, Getting Away With It (All Messed Up), Tomorrow, Born of Frustration, Ring The Bells / Top Of The World, Sound / Space, She's A Star, Come Home, Sit Down
For a review click here.
Update 5.12.01 pm
James setlist at Newcastle last night ran as follows : Say Something, Waltzing Along, Sometimes, Laid, I Know What I'm Here For, God Only Knows, Protect Me (acoustic), Walking The Ghost, Hymn From A Village, Tomorrow, Space, Born of Frustration, Getting Away With It (All Messed Up), Destiny Calling, Ring The Bells / Someone's Got It In For Me, Sound / Out To Get You, Sit Down.
Andy Diagram did not perform at the show, but is reported to be appearing at all the remaining shows on the tour.
Update 5.12.01 am
Tim has answered some fan questions on the official James website - click here to see them
James played their third date of their tour last night at the Telewest Arena in Newcastle.
The setlist included Hymn From A Village, not played since 1994 at least if my memory serves me correctly, and Someone's Got It In For Me. Full setlist to come.
Did you go? If so, we're looking for reviews - email to oneofthethree@hotmail.com - there's a prize for the best review on the tour.
Below are a couple of pictures of shirts available on the tour - prices for both are £15 and there's a skinny version of the "face" shirt
Musicroom are selling a new Best Of James songbook featuring chords and lyrics to 29 classic James tracks from the Best Of, Millionaires and Pleased To Meet You. Click here to order
The tracks are : Born of Frustration, Come Home, Crash, Destiny Calling, English Beefcake, Getting Away With It (All Messed Up), Homeboy, How Was It For You?, Hymn From A Village, I Know What I'm Here For, Just Like Fred Astaire, Lose Control, Out To Get You, Pleased To Meet You, Ring The Bells, Runaground, Say Something, Senorita, Seven, She's A Star, The Shining, Sit Down, Sometimes, Sound, Strangers, Tomorrow, Waltzing Along, We're Going To Miss You
Update 4.12.01 am
Early reports from James gig last night at Leeds University show that James played a very similar setlist to the Brighton show, without any guest appearances, but including I Defeat (which Tim said they'd never played before - Hereford and Glasgow in 1998 spring to mind), Waltzing Along and Top Of The World.
Click here for reviews of the show - if you were there, send me a review to oneofthethree@hotmail.com. There's a prize for the best review.
Update 3.12.01 pm
Today saw the release of the James B-Sides Ultra and the re-release of remastered versions of the Gold Mother, Seven, Laid and Whiplash. The stand out track of the extra tracks has to be the previously unreleased Mark Hunter remixed Say Something (The Saying Nothing Remix). Early reports suggest many people are having difficulty getting hold of them.
Update 3.12.01 am
James opened their final UK tour with Tim Booth at the Brighton Centre last night. The setlist consisted of :
Say Something, Sometimes, Laid, Senorita, English Beefcake, Getting Away With It (All Messed Up), She's A Star, Space, Vervaceous, Johnny Yen, Come Home, God Only Knows, Born of Frustration, Ring The Bells / Protect Me (acoustic), Tomorrow, Sound / Out To Get You, Sit Down
Click here for a review of the show
The show also saw a new tour programme featuring new pictures, a gigography, fans reminiscing about James and the sleevenotes to the remastered albums. There was also an extensive selection of new t-shirts including James written in the shape of a face, the classic JA-M-ES shirts, a University of Manchester shirt with the James flower in place of the logo, a 3D style flower logo, a sweatshirt with a small daisy on the front and several vests / skinny tops based around the flower. Mugs and the Folklore book were also available.
The James "face" from the tour programme and t-shirts