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James are back in concert. James is a band that was there from the beginning of the British 80s rock scene that saw the birth of the Happy Mondays and The Stone Roses, and in the early 1990s, Nirvana. James played with and inspired them all. Get your James concert tickets now. We have tickets for all James concert dates. Buy and sell your James concert tickets here.
It seems that whatever James touches it turns to gold, or platinum, or the stuff of legend. In 1998 James was supported by The Stone roses and the Happy Mondays who shot to superstardom soon afterward. In 1991 Nirvana was the support act for James and in one month´s time Nevermind reached No. 1 on the Billboard charts and the rest is history.
In 1993 Radiohead was James´ supporting band on their tour. And the trend continued with Third Eye Blind supporting the band in 1997, The Corrs and Stereophonics in 1998, Supergrass and Doves in 1999. In 2000 the Nirvana episode appeared to repeat itself when Coldplay supported James and in a month their debut album Parachutes went to No. 1 on the U.K. album chart. Will the spell be repeated in 2008 with James´ supporting group My Federation?
James bit the bullet in the1980s and worked hard like many bands do before they are launched into superstardom. All the hard work paid off in the 1990s and James went on to become one of the biggest and most influential bands of the 1990s with hit singles like Sit Down and Laid.
Tim Booth left the band in 2001 and put the breaks on the momentum
In January 2007 James came back with a nationwide tour and a new album, Hey Ma which was released in 2008, alongside the single Whiteboy.
James was formed in 1982 in Whalley Range, Manchester, when music enthusiast Paul Gilbertson got inspired by the post-punk bands of the era and convinced his best friend Jim Glennie to buy a bass guitar and form a band with him. They rehearsed regularly in Glennie's bedroom with whatever other musicians were available.
Then they met Gavan Whelan who played erratic, frenetic and almost tribal drums that gave their music an edge with Gilbertson and Glennie´s raw, untutored guitar and bass styles. They played a string of gigs under the names Venereal and The Diseases and, later, Volume Distortion before coming up with Model Team International which they shortened to Model Team.
James performed mostly spontaneous, purely improvised material derived from jam sessions and supported The Fall at an early gig. Vocalists and other musicians drifted rapidly in and out of their line-up, until the band encountered Tim Booth at a student disco they had sneaked into. Intrigued by Booth´s wild, Whirling Dervish-like dancing style, Gilbertson invited him to the band´s Scout hut in Withington to join the band as a dancer. After accepting the invitation, Booth was quickly promoted to lead vocals as well as lyricist.
The well-spoken drama student and the punks from Withington may have seemed an unlikely combination, but it worked. The band had a raw, primitive sound with an artistic sensibility.
The band changed their name again to Tribal Outlook, and then finally James in August 1982. Gilbertson thought it was a good idea to name themselves after one of the band members. Jim Glennie was the winner.
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