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JAMES Announce New Album And Share Title Track ‘ALL THE COLOURS OF YOU’

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New sonic impulses…

3 March 2021

Band: JAMES (Manchester, UK)
Active: 1982–2001, 2007–present

New album: ALL THE COLOURS OF YOU – 16th LP
Release: 16 June 2021

Tim Booth (frontman) says about the new record: “With all the shit that
went down in 2020 this was a miraculous conception and another big jump
forward for us on the back of the last three albums. I hope it reflects the
colours of these crazy times. Sweet 16 is a proper album, no fillers and is
up there with our best.”

Lead-single: The title track. A vibrant and elevating electro thrill…

And on tour in the fall…

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‘GOLD MOTHER’ – Third Album By British Pop Legends JAMES Turns 30 Today…

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4 June 2020

Band: JAMES (Manchester UK)
Album: GOLD MOTHER – the band’s third LP
Released: 4 June 1990 – 30 years ago today
Score: #5 on NME’s end- of- the-year list

BBC Music wrote: “It’s often savage, sometimes bitter, and always
loaded with ideas. Yet its overall effect is uplifting, even euphoric, and
for all its weight, it flies, light as a feather.”

Key tracks: Come Home / Sit Down

– SIT DOWN –

– COME HOME –

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Ten Epic Live Performances I Never Ever Get Tired Of…

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Hands up if you like these ten stunning tracks as much as I do. Ten standout performances that send shivers down my spine, ten goosebumps crackers I can listen to any moment of the day, ten stunners I heard for about 1 million times, and will countless times again in the future.

Here’s why…

1. Dead & Gone’ by TOY (UK)
Smashing psychedelia with a mind-blowing finale…

2. ‘I Am Mark E Smith by FAT WHITE FAMILY (UK)
One of the best live bands of the past 10 years…

3. ‘Chlorine’ by THE DISTRICTS (Philadelphia, PA)
Overwhelming passion, towering intensity…

4. ‘Despair’ by YEAH YEAH YEAHS (US)
Gorgeous pop queen Karen O at her very best…

5. ‘Baby I Call Hell’ by DEAP VALLY (California, US)
Kick-ass blues rock frenzy by two utterly cool ladies…

6. ‘Common People‘ by PULP (UK)
Jarvis Cocker‘s orgiastic performance leads to spectacular euphoria…

7. ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony by THE VERVE (UK)
Fist-pumping anthem…

8. ‘Laid’ by James (UK)
No festivals this year, but this is my ecstatic alternative…

9. ‘Fried My Little Brains’ by THE KILLS (UK/US)
I’m in love with Alison Mosshart, she does my brains in…

10. ‘Rocks’ by PRIMAL SCREAM (Scotland)
The steamy ripper The Rolling Stones never wrote…

‘Come Home’ By JAMES – Released In 1989

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Top singles from the past…

29 March 2020

Band: James  (Manchester UK)
Active: 1982–2001 / 2007–present
Single: Come Home 
B-side: Promised Land  
Score: #84 in the UK, when
re-released a year later it reached #32
Album: Gold Mother    
the band’s third longplayer

Here’s the original clip…

Ecstatic live version (2019)…

JAMES: Facebook

Ten Inspiring Songs To Keep That Vicious Coronovirus Out Of Your Safe Home…

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25 march 2020

Music is the dope, turn up the volume…

1. ‘Play Safe’ by IGGY POP
Let’s play safe / I never knew how / How to play safe / You told me how

2. ‘Safety Dance by MEN WITHOUT HATS
We can dance, we can dance everything out control / We can dance doing it wall to wall

3. ‘If You Tolerate This Then You’re Children Will Be Next’ by the MANICS
If you tolerate this then your children will be next, will be next, will be next, will be next

4. ‘Back Home’ by GOLDEN EARRING
People wonder why I’m going back home / Just the place where I belong / Back home

5. ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony’ by THE VERVE
I never pray / But tonight I’m on my knees / I need some sounds that recognize the pain in me

6. ‘Home’ by EDWARD SHARPE AND THE MAGNETIC ZEROS
Home, let me come home / Home is wherever I’m with you

7. ‘Come Home’ by JAMES
This is a testing time when the choice is mine / Am I a fool for love or foolish with desire

8. ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ by LIVERPOOL FANS
When you walk through a storm / Hold your head up high / And don’t be afraid of the dark


9. ‘All For One’ by THE STONE ROSES
All for one, one for all / If we take a stand, we shall not fall

10. ‘Let There Be Love‘ by OASIS
Who stole the soul from the sun in a world come undone at the seams? / Let there be love

Pop Brilliance – Here’s ‘LAID’ By JAMES (1993)

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Top singles from the past…

28 February 2020

Band: James (UK)
Single: Laid 
B-sides: Wah Wah Kits on 7″ and
Wah Wah Kits, The Lake and Seconds Away on CD
Released: 1 November 1993
Album: Laid– the band’s fifth LP
Score: The single peaked at #25 in the UK

“This bed is on fire with passionate love, the neighbours complain
about the noises above, but she only comes when she’s on top”

Here’s an ecstatic live version…

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FIVE INFLAMMABLE SUMMER BANGERS – Part 14 (Final Episode)…

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Weekly series of five rolling ripsnorters to go bananas to this summer…

Summer holiday is over! Let’s have a final big bang to end these summer series
in noisy style! Here are 5 roaring festival performances from this past summer…

1. ‘Bigmouth Strikes Again’ by JOHNNY MARR – Glastonbury UK

2. ‘Drain The Blood’ by THE DISTILLERS Reading + Leeds, UK

3. ‘Pa Pa Ya!! by BABYMETAL – Glastonbury, UK

4. ‘Come Home’ by JAMES – Isle Of Wight, UK

5. ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ by THE CURE – Pinkpop Festival, The Netherlands

All 70 Summer Bangers so far
collected on Spotify…

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JAMES Released Their Supreme Single ‘SIT DOWN’ 30 Years Ago…

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Knockouts from the past…

10 June 2019

Today 30 years ago, on 10 June 1989, Manchester’s tip-top popsters JAMES
released their splendid signature single SIT DOWN . It peaked at a poor #77
on the UK Singles Chart, but when the cracker was re-issued in March 1991
it went to #2. The song was launched a third time in 1998 remixed by electro act
Apollo 440. The lyrics reflected a homage to author Doris Lessing and Patti Smith.

Here’s the original version and the accompanying video clip…

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FIVE INFLAMMABLE SUMMER BANGERS – Part 2…

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Weekly series of five rolling ripsnorters to go completely bananas to this summer…

Let us focus this week on some ace live firework to turn up the heat…

1. ‘Rocks’ by PRIMAL SCREAM
(Glastonbury Festival, UK 2013)

2. ‘Going Up The Country’ by KITTY, DAISY & LEWIS
(Sydney, Australia, 2012)

3. ‘Common People’ by PULP
(Glastonbury Festival, UK 1998)

4. ‘Laid’ by JAMES
(Isle of Wight Festival, UK – 2015)

5. ‘Hot Stuff’ by MILES KANE
(TRNSMT Festival Scotland, 2018)

See/hear you next week, music junkies…

TODAY’S YESTERDAY ALBUM – ‘Laid’ – Pop Masterpiece By JAMES Is 25…

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Remarkable albums from the past…

‘Laid’ by JAMES
Released: 27 September 1993 – 25 years ago

BBC MUSIC wrote: “It may be hard to believe, but once upon a time, back in the pre-Britpop era of the early 90s, James were one of the biggest groups in the UK… A warm, subtle album in tone, songs like Out to Get You, One of the Three and Lullaby might be seen as forerunners of Snow Patrol’s more-measured, less-grating fare… The cover may make your eyes bleed – the band in dresses, eating bananas – but the contents of Laid comprise what is probably James’ real masterpiece.”

TURN UP THE VOLUME! says: I’m still wondering why these colorful and sprightly popsmiths didn’t become global stars.

THREE TOP TRACKS: Laid / Out To Get You / Sometimes

* LAID – If that doesn’t make you happy then I don’t know what will do the trick …

* OUT TO GET YOU – goosebumps beauty…

* SOMETIMES – “Sometimes, when I look deep in your eyes I swear I can see your soul”

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History…