James News Archive February 2008

JAMES : NEWS ARCHIVE FEBRUARY 2008

Update 27.2.08

In a message on the official site, guitarist Larry Gott has confirmed the album title as "Hey Ma", the tracklisting and the album sleeve.

Talking about songs that didn't make the cut in response to some fan favourites such as Not So Strong being absent, he replied : "Yes, we know some of your faves aren't on there and you will no doubt moan about the ones that got away, but the process of making a James album is a strange and mysterious one that even baffles us at times. The tracks we didn't include simply avoided capture or else developed a character incompatible with the rest. Some of them will return no doubt, and some will be available as a limited special treat."

Update 26.2.08

101cd.com have listed the new James album Hey Ma with the sleeve picture to the left. Although there has been no official confirmation of the album sleeve, this image had been circulated to distributors in the last week, so is likely to be the front sleeve for the record.

Just for clarification, the album title has no exclamation mark at the end. That's important. Apparently.

Update 25.2.08

The track Whiteboy will be the lead single from the new James album Hey Ma and has been previewed on Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie's show on Radio 2. For those of you in the UK, the listen back facility will be available on the show so you can hear what you missed - www.bbc.co.uk/radio2. The song is about 21 minutes into the show.

James will also be playing a session on the day of the album launch, Monday April 7.

Update 23.2.08

Amazon.co.uk have announced the tracklisting for the forthcoming album Hey Ma, to be released on April 7. The running order is Bubbles, Hey Ma, Waterfall, Oh My Heart, Boom Boom, Semaphore, Upside, Whiteboy, 72, Monsters And Heroes And Men and I Wanna Go Home.

All songs were previewed at the Hoxton shows in September and recorded at the Warzy Chateau in France shortly afterwards. Semaphore was previously titled Pure Beauty, Of Monsters And Heroes And Men was Better In Black and 72 was A/B.

Update 18.2.08

Usonica website are advertising James are playing Ballantine's Leave An Impression festival in Barcelona and Madrid at the end of April. Dates are April 29 at Barcelona's Razzmatazz 1 and April 30 at Madrid's La Riviera. The dates have not been officially confirmed by the band.

Update 14.2.08

Play.com are advertising the new James album as being titled "Hey Ma" with release date of 7 April without any track-listing details. Currently no other shops are listing the album for release on that date and there has been no official confirmation of the album title.

James are hotly tipped to play the Murcia SOS 4.8 Festival in Spain on 2-3 May. No official confirmation has been made by the festival organisers or the band.

The final line-up announced for the Versus Cancer gig at the MEN Arena on 23 February has been announced, with no slot for James despite the premature XFM announcement of their participation.