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Pre-Order the upcoming release, The Morning After The Night Before by James and get a limited* autographed CD Booklet with purchase!
James have released ten studio albums, sold more than twelve-million albums worldwide, and have had twenty U.K. Top 40 singles. The U.K.-based band are best known in the U.S. for their Brian Eno-produced 1993 album, Laid, which resulted in the huge modern rock hit singles "Laid" which went to No. 3 and "Say Something" (No. 19) resulting in a top spot on the Billboard 100 Chart and a gold album.
Now, James are set to release a two-CD set, The Morning After The Night Before, on September 14th via UMe, their first since the release of 2008's Hey Ma. They will embark on an 18-date U.S. tour with special guest Ed Harcourt.
The two-disc set started as separate mini albums: The Night Before was released in the U.K. in April, and The Morning After is set for release there this September. The Night Before takes James' knack for uplifting songs about insecurity, disaffection and mental illness to a new level, and The Morning After has an intuitive, low-key "campfire" feel featuring some of the saddest, darkest lyrics Tim Booth has ever come up with.
The two albums were recorded in decidedly different ways. With The Night Before, the band set up an FTP site to which they all contributed, downloading and updating each other's efforts at various intervals while producer Lee "Muddy" Baker (who produced Hey Ma as well as Booth's solo album, Bone, in 2004) knocked things into shape. This "virtual" recording process was inspired by the band's history of working with Brian Eno.
Coming together directly after their U.K. tour in early 2010, James recorded The Morning After in five days in a big room with no overdubs and with a view to capturing "something spontaneous." This idea came about due to the diversity of music from the FTP sessions and the realization that they were writing two completely different kinds of song. James naturally come up with beautiful, quiet pieces of music anyway, but rarely do more than one or two ever make it on to a long player; this time they wanted to make a whole album like that. The results are The Morning After, and eight tracks that stretch the James envelope further than it's ever been stretched before.
James are: Tim Booth (singer), Jim Glennie (bass), Larry Gott (guitars), Saul Davies (guitar, violin), Mark Hunter (keyboards), David Baynton-Power (drums) and Andy Diagram (trumpet). Gott and Jim Glennie (the band is named after Glennie's Christian name) were founding members of the band and together with Booth formed its nucleus. In 2006, Gott and Glennie contacted Booth again and asked if he was interested in a reunion. The result was the 2008 release of Hey Ma, the band's first album in seven years. Two years later, James are excited to return with a long awaited U.S. tour and their two-CD set, The Morning After The Night Before. |
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James' U.S. Tour Dates:
- 09/20 Culture Room Fort Lauderdale, FL
- 09/21 House of Blues Orlando, FL
- 09/22 Variety Playhouse Atlanta, GA
- 09/24 The Trocadero Theater Philadelphia, PA
- 09/25 Paradise Rock Club Boston, MA
- 09/27 9:30 Club Washington, DC
- 09/28 Webster Hall New York, NY
- 10/01 Royal Oak Music Theater Royal Oak, MI
- 10/02 The Vic Theatre Chicago, IL
- 10/04 Bluebird Theater Denver, CO
- 10/05 The Complex Salt Lake City, UT
- 10/08 Wonder Ballroom Portland, OR
- 10/09 Showbox at the Market Seattle, WA
- 10/11 The Regency Ballroom San Francisco, CA
- 10/12 House of Blues Anaheim Anaheim, CA
- 10/13 The Music Box Los Angeles, CA
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*Offer valid only with purchase of The Morning After The Night Before. This special offer is valid for domestic (U.S.) orders only. Pre-ordered CDs shipping with promotional material are limited to (5) per customer. Booklets will be available while supplies last, newburycomics.com will post information when autographed booklets are sold out. |
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