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VeeFour said:
It was an awesome experience 20 years back at the Come Home gig, though.
Sadly they're unlikely to tour the UK this year, as Tim is on a solo tour, but I'm hoping they'll be back in 2012.
They played it last I saw them but that was a couple of years ago - seeing them at the MEN was a special experience!Sadly they're unlikely to tour the UK this year, as Tim is on a solo tour, but I'm hoping they'll be back in 2012.
Holy thread resurrection!
Just watched "Glastonbury 2016" for the zillionth time, what a show!
Anyway, what do you think about James in these days? Since 2011 I have seen them in Liverpool with the orchestra and last year in Paris. I still love their music and look forward to the next time I can go to a concert.
Just watched "Glastonbury 2016" for the zillionth time, what a show!
Anyway, what do you think about James in these days? Since 2011 I have seen them in Liverpool with the orchestra and last year in Paris. I still love their music and look forward to the next time I can go to a concert.
MGJ2 said:
Holy thread resurrection!
Just watched "Glastonbury 2016" for the zillionth time, what a show!
Anyway, what do you think about James in these days? Since 2011 I have seen them in Liverpool with the orchestra and last year in Paris. I still love their music and look forward to the next time I can go to a concert.
Saw them lots "back in the day"Just watched "Glastonbury 2016" for the zillionth time, what a show!
Anyway, what do you think about James in these days? Since 2011 I have seen them in Liverpool with the orchestra and last year in Paris. I still love their music and look forward to the next time I can go to a concert.
in 1986 they cocked up the promotion for one gig and only 12 people turned up. That was a great afternoon!!
Missed out on tickets for their performance in Manchester next month, but I will try and get some on the secondary market.
I've been into them since the start. Gold Mother, Laid and Seven are my personal favourites. I confess to not really getting into their newer stuff but went to see them in Newcastle recently. I didn't really know their newer songs but loved listening to the old stuff again. There were lads there who were too young to remember James in their prime but they knew the words to every song, new and old. Nice to see.
The highlight was Alton Towers '92. 30,000 crowd with Public Image Limited supporting. They were awful so James had to do a salvage job on the gig as the crowd were hostile. Great night apart from people urinating in plastic Skol lager bottles and throwing them around the place.
The highlight was Alton Towers '92. 30,000 crowd with Public Image Limited supporting. They were awful so James had to do a salvage job on the gig as the crowd were hostile. Great night apart from people urinating in plastic Skol lager bottles and throwing them around the place.
toon10 said:
Great night apart from people urinating in plastic Skol lager bottles and throwing them around the place.
Reminds me when I was at Donnington monsters of rock in 91.A few rows back sweating like a pig, saw the containers flying back towards me, ah I thought, refreshments, something to cool me off until I was informed by the guy next to me when he saw me getting stickier and stickier and reeking a bit haha. I love James, like one of my favourite bands that I have never seen live, the timings have never aligned for some reason, and its something I really need to tick off.
I don't think they play one of my favourites tracks ever by anyone anymore though "Getting Away with It (All Messed Up)"
I don't think they play one of my favourites tracks ever by anyone anymore though "Getting Away with It (All Messed Up)"
Yidwann said:
I love James, like one of my favourite bands that I have never seen live, the timings have never aligned for some reason, and its something I really need to tick off.
I don't think they play one of my favourites tracks ever by anyone anymore though "Getting Away with It (All Messed Up)"
If memory serves me well, they played that track in Newcastle! I don't think they play one of my favourites tracks ever by anyone anymore though "Getting Away with It (All Messed Up)"
Just found this one on youtube, James and Peter Hook playing 'Love will tear us apart'.
https://youtu.be/9NCd4_iukYc
https://youtu.be/9NCd4_iukYc
Yidwann said:
I don't think they play one of my favourites tracks ever by anyone anymore though "Getting Away with It (All Messed Up)"
from 8'40'': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr5WdVZrpz0We named our son James after the band. I had tickets to the album launch gig for La Petite Mort at the Electric Ballroom in Camden, but my wife instructed me that I was not allowed to go - we had been trying for a kid for nearly 2 years and were on the cusp of giving up, but she told me that 'tonight is the night' - we were in the magic fertility window and under no circumstances was I to let a gig get in the way of some horizontal jogging.
9 months later we welcomed a son, we knew we were expecting a boy so there was never any doubt as to what we'd call him!
I go see them whenever they tour, at some gigs in recent years I've met and chatted to drummer Dave Baynton-Power in the crowd after they played Latitude festival (he was amazed anyone had recognised him!) and was the bloke who held Tim Booth up by his chest as he lay on the crowd singing 'Sometimes' at Brixton Academy last time they played there - rather strange to feel his heart beating as he belted it out to 5,000 people and they sang it back, bit of 'a moment' for me. He was very light, the old vegan diet must be good!
There's an active James fan group on Facebook called One Fan Clapping but I had to leave it last year, it is absolutely full of middlle-aged Mancunians desperate to prove that they are the world's biggest James fan. A bit sad really, because it started out as a really interesting group but just fell into a massive round of one upmanship by the time I ducked out with a timeline full of it. Anecdotes above noted - I'm not repeating similar 10 times a day, every day!
Some of their lesser known albums are great, I particulalrly like Hey Ma and Pleased to Meet You.
9 months later we welcomed a son, we knew we were expecting a boy so there was never any doubt as to what we'd call him!
I go see them whenever they tour, at some gigs in recent years I've met and chatted to drummer Dave Baynton-Power in the crowd after they played Latitude festival (he was amazed anyone had recognised him!) and was the bloke who held Tim Booth up by his chest as he lay on the crowd singing 'Sometimes' at Brixton Academy last time they played there - rather strange to feel his heart beating as he belted it out to 5,000 people and they sang it back, bit of 'a moment' for me. He was very light, the old vegan diet must be good!
There's an active James fan group on Facebook called One Fan Clapping but I had to leave it last year, it is absolutely full of middlle-aged Mancunians desperate to prove that they are the world's biggest James fan. A bit sad really, because it started out as a really interesting group but just fell into a massive round of one upmanship by the time I ducked out with a timeline full of it. Anecdotes above noted - I'm not repeating similar 10 times a day, every day!
Some of their lesser known albums are great, I particulalrly like Hey Ma and Pleased to Meet You.
MGJ2 said:
Just found this one on youtube, James and Peter Hook playing 'Love will tear us apart'.
https://youtu.be/9NCd4_iukYc
Sorry, but urghhhhh....https://youtu.be/9NCd4_iukYc
That was truly horrible.
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