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James will play at Newmarket Racecourse for the first time on Friday 4th August, as part the Newmarket Nights ‘after the races’ summer concert series. For more information on the event please visit the Jockey Club Live website.

Tickets are on sale this Friday 7th April at 8am. See live page for links. Prices start at just £26 for adults and £13 for children aged 5-15. Under 4s are free.

Bargain of the summer?

Manchester meets Westeros in the new Game of Thrones trailer for Season 7: Long Walk. Have a watch/listen below, or here on the official Game of Thrones YouTube channel.

The internet is already abuzz with chatter and questions about from whence and whom this song came.

Never mind Winter. Batten down the hatches, Manchester is coming…

For those unfamiliar with Sit Down, here’s a live version the band recommend, filmed at T In The Park in the summer of 2007.

Tim says: “Having read the books, and watched the series twice, I was very excited when Game of Thrones asked to use Sit Down for their preview. I think the last two songs used were ‘Heroes’ and ‘Wicked Game’ – so we are in great company.

“We thought they would make their own version, to suit the landscape of the series, but apparently they were attached to the original. Now if only they would invite us to perform at Daenerys’ coronation…”

James will be playing the first ever Hope & Glory festival in Liverpool this summer, headlining the Saturday night on 5th August.

According to the organisers, “the festival is set behind St. George’s Hall, in St John’s Gardens and William Brown Street where 12,500 fans can enjoy the festival while indulging in the stunning Victorian backdrop of the World Museum and City Library in a specially created arena – all within a few hundred yards walk of the main Lime Street train station.”

Weekend tickets are on sale now priced at £89 for adults. There are discounted tickets for Under-16s (£59) and Under-10s (£49); and children under five years of age may attend free of charge, but note you do need to book a ticket for them. We do not have any official inside info on potential availability of Day Tickets, but at time of writing, the event website states in the ticketing FAQs: “there will be a very limited number of day tickets available on sale much closer to the festival dates”.

Delighted to confirm the band are finally coming back to Mexico this spring, to play the brand new Roxy Fest in Guadalajara on 1st April. And they’ll be playing alongside Morrissey for the first time in donkey’s years, come along and you’re in for a treat.

Tickets on sale now via the live page.

James are playing in the beautiful Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, on 15 July as part of the Kew The Music summer concert series. Bring a picnic! Or if you’re feeling flush and/or lazy you can book a hamper to collect on arrival. There are other mad options too like a BBQ in the Orangery… Tickets on sale now via the live page. Note there’s a good discount for kids aged 1-16. (Adults £40, kids £22, under 1s free.) Bring the family and make a day of it.

Delighted to confirm that Manchester band The Slow Readers Club – purveyors of their own excellent brand of “indie electro doom pop” – has been added to the bill for Echo Arena, they’ll be playing a special set in the foyer at 7pm.

Jim and Saul selected them personally for the slot and highly recommend you come down early and check them out!

Full PROVISIONAL timings for the evening below. Please note these can and do change sometimes – bear that in mind when arranging travel.

Doors: 6:30pm
The Slow Readers Club (foyer): 7pm
The Charlatans: 7:30-8:30pm
James: 9:15 – 11pm

There are still a few tickets available from the Echo Box Office, so it’s not too late if you wisely decide you can’t miss this.

There have also been many last minute fan spares offered (at face value) – including the much sought after standing tickets – your best bet for these is to check the comments section on recent posts about the gig on our facebook page as well as the event wall, and on Twitter: #GirlTix.

Hey Manchester, ready for round 2 at Castlefield Bowl? James are headlining next summer’s Sounds Of The City on Friday 7th July 2017.

Tickets on sale this Friday 2nd December at 9:30am, see live page for links. Get Santa on the case and we’ll see you there!

Our first gig announcement for the new year… James have been confirmed to headline Newcastle’s open air Live From Times Square event on Saturday 29th July 2017. Tickets go on sale this Friday, 25 November, at 10am. Visit the live page for links.

We can now confirm the band will be returning to Lisbon’s MEO Arena on Sunday 4th December! Standard tickets are on sale now and V.I.P. Soundcheck tickets will be on sale shortly – keep an eye on our live page for the link. (Please note! The Soundcheck tickets will include a concert ticket, so don’t buy a standard ticket in the meantime as you won’t be able to upgrade.)

Our video for Dear John, made by the wonderful Péter Vácz, will be screened at the prestigious Encounters Film Festival this year. Encounters is the UK’s leading short film and animation festival, and takes place in Bristol from 20-25 September.

Dear John has been selected for their Top of the Class screening – “an outstanding range of eclectic films selected for their powerful emotional impact” – at Watershed Cinema on Thursday the 22nd.