Whilst Manchester celebrates the tenth anniversary of the release of St Jude, it’s often forgotten that on the same day James released their comeback album Hey Ma, their first for six and a half years, and which also hit the top ten. We take a look back at the album and reproduce our review at the time from the One Of The Three James archive site that we run.
It was a cold January night back in 2007 when I got a call from Tim Booth. I was hanging up washing in the spare room of my flat. We hadn’t spoken for a year or so on the phone (I still run his website and Facebook page) so I was curious. He explained that there was going to be a big announcement in a day or so about some tour dates and could I leak the word out via my fan site that was still active. He then proceeded to tell me about all the new material they’d written. These were the days when a band would reform and play the hits and then stop.
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