Today, James announce an exclusive warm-up show at Edinburgh Corn Exchange on Thursday 22 May 2025 ahead of their headline performance at Neighbourhood Weekender. General sale will be available from Wednesday 07 May at 10am via https://lnk.to/JamesEd.
Following this warm-up show, James set off on a series of major dates across the UK throughout the Summer including two sold-out dates at the iconic Piece Hall, Halifax and a night at Cardiff Castle with special guests Shed Seven and Jamie Webster.
‘Live at the Acropolis’ is out now. Recorded on 10 July 2023, ‘Live at the Acropolis’ transports listeners to the band’s unforgettable performance at the historic Odeon of Herodes Atticus, an open-air amphitheatre beneath the Acropolis in Athens. Conducted by Joe Duddell, James was joined by an 8-piece choir and 22-piece orchestra to deliver a powerful set against the backdrop of ancient history.
‘Looks absolutely ravishing’ – Classic Pop.
James UK Summer 2025 Dates
Fri 02 May Pavilion Festival
Sat 24 May Neighbourhood Festival
Sat 31 May Wychwood Festival
Fri 06 Jun The Piece Hall, Halifax – SOLD OUT
Sat 07 Jun The Piece Hall, Halifax – SOLD OUT
Wed 11 Jun Hampton Court Palace Festival
Thu 12 Jun Plymouth Hoe
Sat 14 Jun Lincoln Castle – SOLD OUT
Thu 19 Jun Thetford Forest
Sat 21 Jun Oceanfest, Croyde Bay
Sun 22 Jun Isle of Wight Festival
Sat 28 Jun Cannock Chase Forest
Sun 29 Jun Llangollen Pavilion
Thu 10 Jul Cardiff Castle
Fri 22 Aug Colchester Castle Summer Series
Sun 31 Aug Rock N Roll Circus, Sheffield
About James
With more than 25 million albums sold over their 42-year career, Manchester legends James are amongst the most commercially and artistically successful – and most loved - alternative rock bands of their era. Having gathered a cult following around compulsive art rock gallops like ‘Johnny Yen’ during the 1980s, they broke through to mainstream chart success with their 1990 major label debut Gold Mother and went on to unite the early Nineties with euphoric anthems of solace, love, sex, loss and frustration at the ills of the world: ‘Come Home’, ‘Sit Down’, ‘Sound’, ‘Sometimes (Lester Piggott)’ and ‘Laid’. Their fifth album Laid – the first of a string of James albums produced by Brian Eno - saw them break the US charts, while subsequent hit albums including Whiplash (1997), Millionaires (1999) and Pleased to Meet You (2001) cemented their standing as a classic 1990s singles act, adding ‘Tomorrow’, ‘She’s a Star’, ‘Just Like Fred Astaire’ and ‘Getting Away with It (All Messed Up)’ to their formidable canon.
The band entered a six-year hiatus in December 2001, but such was the connection and fervency of their fanbase that their reunion in 2007 was met with such renewed success that it was as though they’d never been away. 2008’s comeback album Hey Ma became their sixth Top Ten album and their celebrated second era would earn them more Top 20 album placings and faster ticket sales than their whirlwind initial run. 2014’s La Petite Mort – inspired by the deaths of singer Tim Booth’s mother and his close friend Gabrielle Roth – was critically acclaimed, while 2016’s Number Two Girl at the End of the World returned them to the upper echelons of the album chart, where they’ve remained ever since. Living in Extraordinary Times (2018), All the Colours of You (2021) and the new, 18th studio album Yummy are amongst their finest and most prescient releases, dealing with US politics, AI technology and conspiracy theories, all the while facing down mortality with an unbeaten smile and striving for love in a world spinning catastrophically out of control. Their fortieth anniversary in 2023 was celebrated with a tour of inspired orchestral reworkings of their classics – and a Top Three album recording Be Opened by the Wonderful – but this was far from a full stop.