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James will be returning to the beautiful island of Madeira after an absence of nine years to headline Funchal Music Fest.

The festival takes place over the 19th, 20th, and 21st August and James will be playing on Sunday the 21st.

Tickets are available via the festival’s official website; 3-day tickets cost 50€ and include 3 drinks and a festival T-shirt, 1-day tickets priced at 25€ will be available for a limited time only, and include 2 drinks. Visit the festival’s site for full details of the offer.

James are headlining Thessaloniki’s new two day music festival – 2310 Festival – which will be held at the Kaftanzoglio Stadium over 6th and 7th July.  They will be closing the event, playing on Thursday the 7th.  The line up promises to be quite diverse; other bands confirmed to appear are Judas Priest and Whitesnake, with many more yet to be announced.

Tickets are on sale now from Ticket Arena at a cost of 45 Euros per day or 80 Euros for a 2-day ticket.  If there are tickets left on the day of the show, they’ll be available on the door for 50 Euros.

For more information on the event and details of where to find tickets locally, please visit the organiser’s website at detoxevents.gr or phone (+30) 210 9611118.

James have been invited to help Portugal’s largest radio group, Rádio Renascença, celebrate it’s 75th anniversary at a very special event this summer, which will see them perform with the highly acclaimed Orquestra Filarmonia das Beiras, or Beiras Philharmonic Orchestra.

The concert is set to take place at Estádio do Bessa in Porto on 3rd June, and will also feature performances by two top Portuguese artists, Rui Veloso – the “Father of Portuguese Rock” – and Mariza, with all three acts performing special sets of about five songs accompanied by the orchestra.

Tickets are on sale now, see the Live page for ticketing links.

James will be headlining the Baltic’s largest music festival, Positivus, for the second time this summer and tickets are on sale now for the very reasonable sum of 51 Euros (about £44) for 2-day camping tickets.

The band are scheduled to appear on the main stage on Saturday 16th July at about 11:30pm.  Other acts already confirmed are Editors and Hurts, with many more listed on the festival’s website and more to be announced over the coming weeks.

The 20,000-capacity event is set amid the beautiful landscape of coastal town Salacgriva, northern Latvia, and is said to have a unique charm.

The festival grounds encompass beach and lush woodland, along with plenty of fresh air. Festivalgoers desiring a break from the entertainment will find there are hammocks slung between pine trees in the woods for your use, dunes to explore, or you can have a splash in the Baltic Sea to refresh yourself.

Positivus 2011 promises a diverse program on two main stages, a Dance Marquee and a further music stage with local and Baltic independent acts, as well as a Theatre and Literature Stage, the Body and Soul Area, Beach Stage, Cinema Tent and numerous indie market stands with handmade art, fashion and vintage wares. The festival camp site offers complimentary coffee.

The festival is accessible from all of Europe via Riga International Airport, which is 120 km away on the Via Baltica highway.  Children are welcome and those under the age of 10 can attend free of charge.

Tickets are on sale now, see the Live page for ticketing links, or check out the Positivus site for further information.  (The site can be viewed in a variety of languages including English, by clicking on the flags on the upper right of each page.)

Tim’s new album “Love Life” is released April 4th and a UK tour starts on April 20th, tickets will be going on pre-sale from Wednesday 9th February. To be the first to find out when and where you can buy tickets to see Tim perform, head on over to timbooth.co.uk and check out the gigs page.

A Special Edition version of “Love Life” will be available to pre-order directly from Tim’s new online Emporium shortly.

To find out more and be the first to receive news on Tim’s solo project please sign up to his mailing list.

We are delighted to confirm the wonderful news announced on the front page of El Comercio newspaper this morning: James will be playing their first South American headline show this spring, in Lima, Perú.

The concert will take place at Explanada del Estadio Monumental on Wednesday 30th March.

Tickets are on sale now from tuentrada.com.pe (tel. +51-1-618-3838), with prices ranging from S/.95 – S/.367.

At long last, James will be playing on South American shores.  The band has just been confirmed to appear fourth on the bill at Lollapalooza Chile in Santiago on 2 April, alongside The Killers, The Flaming Lips, The National, Jane’s Addiction, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and many more – visit the festival’s official site for further details and the full line up.

The festival takes place over the 2nd and 3rd of April and tickets are on sale now, available from puntoticket.com and the Lollapalooza site; travel & accommodation-inclusive packages can be booked through one of the festival’s partners here.

There are two-day and single day passes, as well as VIP tickets available, and there are considerable discounts for buying in advance, so if you’re planning to attend, it’s worth buying sooner rather than later.

We thought it would be nice to give you a chance to do something special this Christmastime, so due to popular demand in response to a similar package introduced for the US tour, the band have decided to offer a limited number of VIP upgrades for The Night Before The Morning After Tour of the UK next month.

The VIP package will be available as a separate upgrade for ticket holders; the offer is open to anyone with a valid ticket, regardless of which agency they were (or are) purchased from. It will cost £20 per person/ticket, and entitles you to the following:

• A unique opportunity to attend the band’s pre-show soundcheck (minimum three songs)
• 15 minute Q & A session with all of the band (questions taken from audience after soundcheck)
• Priority early entry for General Admission shows
• The merch stand will be open early for the VIPs to allow peaceful, uncrowded shopping
• Limited edition VIP souvenir laminate you may take home with you

Please note, to attend the soundcheck you will need to be at the venue from approximately 4:15pm in Manchester, 4:30pm for all other venues.

These upgrades are limited in number and will be available exclusively through our partner, and the general sale begins at 9am this morning on gigsandtours.com.

Bear in mind you must already have tickets, or purchase them separately – Leeds and Brixton are sold out, as is Standing/GA for the Manchester Evening News Arena, but there are still a limited number of tickets for the remainder of the dates, and for seats at Manchester Arena.

If you’ve missed out on tickets for Brixton, the opening night of the tour at the Hammersmith Apollo still has some availability, and will mark the first time James have played this art deco all-seated theatre.

Visit the live page for the full itinerary and a range of ticketing links.  The upgrades are available for all UK shows in December.  If you have your heart set on one of the sold out dates, do keep checking the ticketing sites, as a small number of returns may be released back onto the market shortly.

Hope to see you there.

Availability update: Manchester, Brixton, and Birmingham VIP packages are now sold out – all other dates are still available at time of writing.

We’ve just confirmed a great band from Manchester called Frazer King as support at Leeds Academy on 14th December, and as additional support for Manchester Arena on the 18th, where they’ll be on at 6:50 pm, followed by the Pigeon Detectives. 

They’ve just released a 5-track E.P., Working Towards the Fuhrer, and their sound has been likened to “Tom Waits if he was from Wythenshaw” and “The Beach Boys beating up Take That”, with a touch of Captain Beefheart thrown in for good measure…  They’re not your typical Manchester band and they may surprise you; come down early and check them out.

James played a free afternoon show at the World Cafe in Philadelphia last month which was broadcast live on WXPN and streamed online as part of the ‘Free at Noon’ series.

Tracks from this performance, along with an all new interview, will be featured today on National Public Radio’s World Cafe show which will be broadcast live on stations across America, and streamed online for those of you outside the listening area.

If you’re in the US, you can find your local broadcaster and the time the program will air in your region on the Broadcast Schedule on the NPR site.  Please note, times (and in a few cases the date) do vary from station to station and not simply across time zones,  so if you want to listen on the radio,  you’ll need to select your state on the schedule and check the time for your particular station.

For those of you in the Philadelphia area or listening online, the show will air on WXPN between 2 – 4pm local (Eastern Standard) time, which is 7 – 9pm in the UK.  If you miss the live broadcast they’ll be adding the program to the archives on the site later in the day.