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Blackpool Opera House – 12th May 2023
Setlist
Magic Bus / Dream Thrum / Dust Motes / Beautiful Beaches / She's A Star / The Shining / Seven / We're Going To Miss You / Born Of Frustration / Say Something / Nothing But Love / Sit Down / Love Make A Fool / Medieval / Just Like Fred Astaire / Of Monsters And Heroes And Men / Someone's Got It In For Me / Hello / Moving On / The Lake / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Sometimes / Tomorrow / All The Colours Of You / Many Faces / Top Of The WorldSupport
N/AMore Information & Reviews
Review: Dave Brown @ EvenTheStars.co.uk
“There’s then a really emotional moment as Debbie steps forward to the microphone to tell us that her Dad passed away the night before after a long struggle with cancer. She tells us that there being so much joy in the room will help her celebrate him and that they’re going to play her favourite song. We’re Going To Miss You is another song that feels like this was exactly the moment it was written for, particularly when the instruments drop out and the song’s chorus line is sung by Tim, the choir and half the band a cappella.”
Read the full review at EvenTheStars.co.uk
Review: Laura Dean @ God Is In The TV Zine
“Never a band to go through the motions, James are constantly challenging themselves and it’s part of the reason that they’ve had such a lengthy career. The band’s 2021 arena tour was their biggest and most successful tour to date and with Summer dates and a double orchestral album on the way, it’s safe to say that James are showing no signs of slowing down.”
Read the full review at God Is In The TV Zine
Review: Natalie Royle @ Louder Than War
“James are renowned for their improvisation during their live performances and Tim announces “lets do another one”, much to the audiences delight. It would be easy for James to finish with one of their hits which is often the case at a standard James gig, but as we have already learnt this tour is about much more than that. The band’s final song of the night is Top Of The World, which brings the evening to a hauntingly beautiful and emotional close.”
Read the full review at Louder Than War
Manchester Apollo – 10th May 2023
Setlist
Sit Down / Top Of The World / Dust Motes / Lookaway / The Shining / Space / We're Going To Miss You / Ten Below / Seven / Say Something / Nothing But Love / Magic Bus / Love Make A Fool / Medieval / Moving On / Of Monsters And Heroes And Men / Riders / Alaskan Pipeline / She's A Star / All The Colours Of You / Many Faces / Someone's Got It In For Me / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Born Of Frustration / Laid / Sometimes / Hymn From A VillageSupport
N/AMore Information & Reviews
Review: Dave Brown @ EvenTheStars.co.uk
“The crowd move into the aisles to dance and some head down the front for the final two songs of the main set Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) and Born Of Frustration as James seek to finish the night on a bang. The security are a little unsure of what to do but as there’s no danger of a stage invasion a la 1989 they try and keep the front free without being heavy-handed. People just want to be a bit closer, Tim lets the audience sing the chorus which they do with gusto and the whole Apollo is now on their feet, not to sit down again until they leave. Born Of Frustration’s ecstatic windswept moments are even more so with the choir and orchestra augmenting the band and the audience casting off any remaining inhibitions that might have reigned them in earlier in the evening.”
Read the full review at EvenTheStars.co.uk
Review: Izzy Langhamer @ The Mancunion
“The last third of the show takes place with the audience entirely on our feet, swaying, singing, and hugging to songs like the heady ‘Born of Frustration’. At the end of a well-received encore, James finish with ‘Hymn From a Village’, the perfect jangly closer to an evening filled with elation and mad-cap energy. As hometown gigs go, you simply can’t get better.”
Read the full review at The Mancunion
Review: Helen Millington @ RGM
“Booth never seems to age, and at 63 works the stage like he did 40 years ago, and equally strong are his vocals which cut through the huge ensemble perfectly. It wasn’t just the classics we we treated to, the band rolled out some new material, a track called ‘Love Make a Fool’, which will feature on their upcoming album ‘Be Opened by the Wonderful’.”
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Newcastle City Hall – 2nd May 2023
Setlist
Dust Motes / Hello / Alaskan Pipeline / The Shining / Say Something / Lookaway / We're Going To Miss You / Riders / Ten Below / Tomorrow / Nothing But Love / Magic Bus / Someone's Got It In For Me / Love Make A Fool / Seven / Of Monsters And Heroes And Men / Moving On / The Lake / Hymn From A Village / Medieval / Sometimes / Sit Down / All The Colours Of You / Many FacesSupport
N/AMore Information & Reviews
Review: Dave Brown @ EvenTheStars.co.uk
“Say Something is celebratory, a release valve for some from the challenging setlist around it. Whilst it’s sometimes a little “James by numbers” if such things exist, a surefire crowdpleaser, here it sounds reinvigorated. One of the most magical things about this tour has been the song selection, choosing what works best with the orchestra and choir rather than simply picking the singles. We’re Going To Miss You has stepped out of the shadow of bigger singles from its time, combined with the lighting that perfectly captures what’s going on musically. Ten Below and Riders may have been written a quarter of a decade apart and be never seen again in most band’s back catalogues, but here they’re two of the most exciting and vibrant rediscoveries. The former, about Tim’s time at the boarding Shrewsbury School – “people say school days are the best time of your life, mine were the most miserable” – fizzes and bursts into life whilst Riders is dark and brooding, the orchestra left to their own devices by Joe.”
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Review: Darin Hutson @ Southern Reporter
“This is the second time they’ve supersized, the first being for a 2011 tour with Warwickshire’s Orchestra of the Swan and the Manchester Consort Choir, and their latest exercise in excess is every bit as much of a success as their first and that’s no mean feat, it must be said.”
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Leeds First Direct Arena – 9th December 2018
Setlist
VIP Soundcheck: Living In Extraordinary Times / Just Like Fred Astaire / She's A Star / LullabyHank / Picture Of This Place / Ring The Bells / Sit Down / Heads / What’s It All About / Top Of The World / Don’t Wait That Long / Say Something / Just Like Fred Astaire / Of Monsters And Heroes And Men / Moving On / Leviathan / Stutter / Sounds / Come Home / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Many Faces / Sometimes
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Manchester Arena – 8th December 2018
Setlist
VIP Soundcheck: Of Monsters And Heroes And Men / Don’t Wait That Long / Feet Of ClayHank / Picture Of This Place / Ring The Bells / Sit Down / Heads / Stutter / Of Monsters And Heroes And Men / Out To Get You / Laid / What’s It All About / Moving On / Leviathan / Nothing But Love / Attention / Sound / Come Home / How Was It For You / Don’t Wait That Long / Many Faces / Sometimes
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Dubai Irish Village – 22nd November 2018
Setlist
Lose Control / Hank / What’s It All About / Of Monsters And Heroes And Men / Don’t Wait That Long / Say Something / Waltzing Along / Sit Down / Leviathan / Picture of This Place / Heads / Stutter / How Was It For You / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Come Home / Attention / Many Faces / SometimesSupport
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Perth Astor Theatre – 20th November 2018
Setlist
Lose Control / Leviathan / Hank / Waterfall / Waltzing Along / Picture of This Place / Don’t Wait That Long / Of Monsters And Heroes And Men / Tomorrow / Heads / How Hard The Day / Say Something / How Was It For You / Laid / Come Home / Many Faces / Sometimes / Sit DownSupport
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Brisbane Tivoli – 17th November 2018
Setlist
Lose Control / Hank / Extraordinary Times / Waltzing Along / Laid / Of Monsters And Heroes And Men / What’s It All About / Stutter / Lullaby / Don’t Wait That Long / Leviathan / Tomorrow / How Was It For You? / Come Home / Many Faces / Sound / Sit DownSupport
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Sydney Metro Theatre – 16th November 2018
Setlist
Hank / Better Than That / Seven / Extraordinary Times / Born Of Frustration / Heads / Feet Of Clay / Johnny Yen / Of Monsters And Heroes And Men / Leviathan / How Was It For You? / Come Home / Sound / Many Faces / Sometimes / Sit Down / LaidSupport
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Melbourne Forum – 14th November 2018
Setlist
Lose Control / Hank / She’s A Star / Seven / Leviathan / Heads / Stutter / Lullaby / Of Monsters And Heroes And Men / How Was It For You / Come Home / What’s It All About / Born Of Frustration / Tomorrow / Many Faces / Sit Down / Sometimes / LaidSupport
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Review: Angela Costanzo @ Sydney Morning Herald
Booth’s voice is undimmed, his exuberant, rubber-limbed ’90s dancing is still intact, and his plea part way through to “not be looking back at a bunch of Samsungs” is largely respected. He’s clearly having fun, standing back to beam upon the audience as they sing back to him, clasping hands with those in the front rows, and at one point launching himself into the audience to crowd surf, all without missing a note.
Read the full review at smh.com.au
Halifax Victoria Theatre – 20th May 2018
Setlist
Hank / Heads / Ring The Bells / Leviathan / Five-O / To My Surprise / Gone Baby Gone / Scarecrow / Say Something / Busted / PS / Coming Home (Pt.2) / How Was It For You? / Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) / Of Monsters And Heroes And Men / Many Faces / Born Of Frustration / Attention / Better Than That / Nothing But Love / Come Home / Sometimes / LaidVIP Soundcheck:
Many Faces / Hank / Better Than That
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Review: EvenTheStars.co.uk
“What happens next is something that will live in the memory as one of the most incredible gig moments as the audience takes the chorus of new song Many Faces, which remember the vast majority of them will never have heard before and it’s not been released or even played on radio, and sing it back to the band for more than five minutes. Its chorus of “there’s only one human race, many faces, everybody belongs here” might have been written about Trump’s threat to build a wall to keep out Mexicans, but it embodies how this band write songs that are specific to Tim’s thought processes, but which allow everyone to put their own meaning to them and the two be completely compatible. In true James fashion, they probably won’t release it as a single.”
Read the full review on EvenTheStars.co.uk.