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1990: The Calm Before The Storm: James Come Home

The year starts well with the band signing a deal with Fontana ensuring that this time their music gets the promotion it deserves. The album ‘Gold Mother’ enters the top 10 supported by three top 40 singles ‘How Was It For You?’ ; ‘Come Home’ (remixed) and ‘Lose Control’.

Live; their World Cup tour is planned to avoid England’s matches. At the end of that tour they play a triumphant show at Glastonbury, becoming the talking point of that year’s festival. To round off an excellent year they sell out a mini tour taking in Newcastle, Glasgow and an amazing 2 nights at Manchester’s 10,000 capacity G-Mex arena, filmed for later release on the ‘Come Home’ live video.

Heralded by many as ‘the pride of Manchester’ and often proclaimed as ‘Manchester’s best kept secret’ James had at last come home and were about to go global.

1991: The Rise Of The Magnificent 7

At 8am on the last day of January, in an effort to say thanks to the Manchester faithful, James announced on the radio that they would be playing on a roof overlooking Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester, By noon that day. Manchester city center was brought to a virtual standstill as 5,000 fans danced in the streets to a selection of hits and new material.

The rushes of the G-Mex concert secure the still relatively unknown James a spot on the primetime BBC show ‘Wogan’ and helped by this exposure the re-recorded single ‘Sit Down’ enters the UK top 10 upon release. It reaches #2 the next week and stays there for 6 weeks, being denied the top spot by one hit wonder Chesney Hawkes’s ‘I Am The One And Only’ for 5 of them and even more cruelly by Cher’s ‘Shoop Shoop Song’ for the 6th.

Other highlights include headlining Reading festival, 2nd single ‘Sound’ going top 10, the band recording the album ‘Seven’ with Youth at Olympic Studios in London and performing a pre-Christmas fan-club show at Warrington Parr Hall. This previewed all 11 tracks from the ‘Seven’ album and filmed for subsequent release as the ‘Seven’ Live Video.

1992: America Is Waiting For A Message Of Some Kind

As the band travel to LA at the start of the year to film the Born of Frustration video, Larry is mugged at gunpoint on Sunset Boulevard and catches the next flight home. Their tour manager stands in for the video shoot in a very concealing hat and coat. Not a good start but later, kicking off in Toronto, James’s first North American tour is a massive success with 11 sold-out shows.

Nearer home, the lads headline their own triumphant show at Alton Towers supported by P.I.L. in front of 30,000 people. The gig was broadcast live on Radio 1. 2nd support Galliano had to be cancelled as high winds blew the stage roof off earlier in the day.

The rest of the year was equally eventful with Brian Eno contacting them with a view to producing the next album. Headlining Glastonbury, ‘Seven’ charting at #2, supporting Neil Young acoustically, visiting France, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, Italy, Portugal and japan and two top 40 singles.

1993: Why Make One Album When You Can Make Two?

In February, after falling in love with the demo of ‘Sometimes’, Brian Eno sets about the task of unravelling the mysteries of James’s creative process by setting up two studios that will run side by side at Peter Gabriel’s Real World complex near Bath. One studio focuses on the song album ‘Laid’ whilst the other studio delves into an array of live improvisations unearthing the jewels that will make up the album ‘WahWah’.

To celebrate the release of the album ‘Laid’, BBC’s Radio1 hold a “James day” where the band play live tracks on every show throughout the day.

Later in the year the band add to the canon of great support acts they have taken out by touring UK, Germany, France, Spain Switzerland and Portugal with show openers Radiohead. To date that list also includes The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Texas, Stereophonics, The Inspiral Carpets and lastly but not leastly The Twang.

1994: England...Where's That Again?

The success of the title track ‘Laid’ on US radio and a series of critically acclaimed arena shows supporting Duran Duran, sees the band spending most of the year in America. They completed 3 extensive tours and cemented their growing popularity with appearances on the national TV shows of Jay Leno, Conan O’Brien and the legendary Tonight show with David Letterman.

The renowned manager Peter Rudge (referred to as ‘The Rudge’ by friends and enemies alike) takes over the bands affairs when original manager Martine bows out.

James return briefly to the UK to play at Glastonbury before going back to the US to take part in the 25 year anniversary concert, Woodstock 2. (nb : this turned out to be Larry Gott’s last live appearance during his first stint in the band)

The band liked the area around Woodstock; they stayed and retreated to a “big barn” in the woods to work on new material.

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1991 James Timeline

January: James play Wembley Arena as part of the indie night of the Brit Awards

January: James play five songs included the unreleased Ring The Bells on the roof of Piccadilly Hotel in Manchester. 5,000 people turned up and the Manchester traffic was brought to a standstill

February – March: James retire to the Manor complex in Oxford to start recording the follow-up to Gold Mother

February: Three weeks before the single release, James perform Sit Down on Terry Wogan’s primetime BBC chatshow.

March: Sit Down single released

March: James play a secret show at Paris La Locomotive club where they preview ten songs from their recent demos that were to form the basis of the Seven album, albeit sounding radically different and including Pressure’s On and the unreleased Somebody Help Me

April: Come Home live video released

May: The Gold Mother album is rereleased with Sit Down and Lose Control replacing Hang On and Crescendo. Fans are offered the opportunity to exchange a copy of the old album for a new copy at branches of Our Price.

June: James preview three new songs – Heavens, Protect Me and Born of Frustration – live on Channel 4’s Friday Night At The Dome

August: After their own set was curtailed by power failure and with Andy and all their equipment shipped home, James are drafted in at the last moment to headline the Hultsfred Festival in Sweden after Status Quo withdrew.

August: James headline Reading Festival and are critically mauled for daring to play Sit Down early in the set and playing five new songs.

September: James complete recording of the Seven album with Youth at Olympic Studios in London

September – November: James embark on their biggest ever tour, 31 sold out dates previewing most of the Seven album, which should have been ready to coincide with the tour.

November: Sound single released

December – James play a pre-Christmas fan-club show at Warrington Parr Hall previewing all 11 tracks from the Seven album, the show being filmed for subsequent release as the Seven Live Video

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James – Eurockéennes 1991 – Belfort – Past Daily Backstage Pass

• May 28, 2022

James – in concert at Eurockéennes Festival 1991 – Belfort, France – RTL – Paris

James this holiday weekend. In concert during the 1991 Eurockéennes Festival in Belfort France on June 23, 1991 and broadcast live by RTL in Paris.

Revisiting this concert after many years, I am still struck by how profound James were in the grand scheme of things. It further adds proof the 90s were a mostly underrated decade for music – and there was a lot going on – much of it missed the mainstream and even MTV. Tim Booth adds the perfect balance between pathos and joy in his singing, mindful not to spill over into high-drama, which would be very easy to do in lesser hands. Belting is easy – conveying a true and heart-felt emotion is hard to pull off in subtle fashion; those emotions that get under your skin and stay there, but the results are striking, and Booth is a master at it.

It points up to the fact that a lot was going on in that decade and much of it was surveying new territory or revisiting older genres with fresh eyes. It’s a decade that needs to be scrutinized more carefully – there are a lot of misplaced gems to be found.

James are still together, reuniting in 2007 after Tim Booth left in 2001 and they have gone on to tour regularly and released their 18th album, All The Colours Of You in June of 2021.

If you aren’t familiar with this band, it would do you wonderfully well to check them out, particularly with the early 90s material as a stepping off point. Hopefully this glimpse of the band in 1991 will be the catalyst to get you exploring.

Enjoy the weekend. Play loud.

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