News

Sorry to disappoint our Athenian fans who had not yet purchased tickets for the concert at Tae Kwon Do stadium next Saturday, but this event sold out some time ago and there will be no more tickets made available.  There are, however, a limited number of tickets still available for the show in Patras on the 30th of April, which are available here.

The band are very much looking forward to revisiting Athens, and their first trip to Patras.   Apologies to those of you who haven’t been able to get tickets this time around; hopefully it won’t be too long before they return to your shores.

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The general sale of tickets for The Night Before The Morning After Tour is now under way.  Please visit gigsandtours.com or see our live page for ticketing links and telephone numbers.

You can also watch a video interview about the tour with Tim and Jim which features live footage of the band from the recent Mirrorball Tour, which is now on our YouTube channel, along with a sampler of the new mini-album.

Don’t forget The Night Before is in stores this week, and available to ship worldwide from our own shop for just £4.95 plus p&p.

We are very pleased to announce that the band will be embarking on another tour of the United Kingdom this December, The Night Before The Morning After Tour.  The dates are as follows:

Thursday 9th December             London – Hammersmith Apollo
Friday 10th December                London – Brixton Academy
Sunday 12th December               Birmingham Academy
Tuesday 14th December             Leeds Academy
Wednesday 15th December      Leicester – De Montfort Hall
Friday 17th December                Glasgow – SECC
Saturday 18th December           Manchester Evening News Arena

Special guests for all shows except Leeds are The Pigeon Detectives.

Tickets go on general sale at 9am on Friday 23rd April 2010, but if you want to participate in the fan pre-sale for preferential tickets, this commences at 9am on Wednesday 21st April 2010 and these tickets will only be available for 48 hours.  To purchase tickets visit our ticket shop.  Don’t delay as these tickets are strictly limited.

In other news, the new mini-album ‘The Night Before’ is in stores today, and you can pick up a copy from our shop for just £4.95 plus p&p (we ship worldwide), or from your friendly neighbourhood record store.

Volume two will be released on Monday 2nd August, and is entitled ‘The Morning After’.  The band are presently ensconced in a top secret location, writing and recording this album in a natural and spontaneous manner, jamming away in a big room together, in stark contrast to the technological wizardry through which the first volume evolved.

There will also be the opportunity to place an order for the new mini-album The Night Before and to pre-order the sequel, ‘The Morning After’, while making your ticket purchase during the pre-sale.

The Independent newspaper is exclusively previewing the new mini-album The Night Before, in full, for a limited time. The album will be in stores this coming Monday, so this is your chance to take a sneak peek!  You can have a read and a listen in their online music section, here:  www.independent.co.uk

If you like what you hear, you can pick up a copy in our shop for just £4.95 plus p&p (worldwide shipping is available).

The band will be making a number of promotional appearances on radio and television over the next few weeks in support of their new album, The Night Before.  This will include a live radio session on 6 Music, a pre-recorded live session on Radio 2, as well as a performance on GMTV.  The schedule (subject to change) is below.

• Wednesday 14th April – 6 Music,  live on air with Lauren Laverne from 11:20am.  Chat and live session.
• Saturday 17th April – Soccer AM on Sky Sports 1 (9am-12pm)
• Saturday 17th April – Radio 2, Dermot O’Leary Session from 3pm-6pm  Chat and live session.
• Friday 23rd April – GMTV 8:20am Chat (TBC) and performance.

Further details will be added as they become available.

Update 14th April: For those of you who missed the band’s performance on 6 Music this afternoon, you can ‘listen again’ on the BBC iPlayer.  James appear approximately 90 minutes into the program.

James will be jetting off to the Azores this summer to headline the Sanjoaninas Festival, which takes place on the beautiful Terceira Island.

They’ll be playing on the Main Stage (Music Box) in the Cerrado do Bailão on the 26th of June, and are due on stage at 11pm (TBC).

Our official ticketing information is in the local language of Portuguese and is as follows:  Bilhetes í  venda na Cí¢mara Municipal e na bilheteira do Centro Cultural e de Congressos de Angra do Heroí­smo e ainda nos quiosques da ART, de Angra e Praia da Vitória.

For more information on the event, please visit the festival’s website.

We have a little treat for you, to mark the start of the Mirrorball Tour which kicks off tonight in bonny Scotland.  Larry has taken a bit of time during rehearsals to finish preparing his photo blogs from 2009, and we’ve now added the full series to the Blog for your enjoyment.

He’ll be snapping away during the tour as well, and if all goes to plan we’ll be adding the new photos as the tour progresses, so for those of you who can’t make it to the shows, keep an eye on the blog.   Juliet has also promised to keep us up to date with all the latest soup trends and condiment-related gossip on the tour, so stay tuned!

We can now reveal the support acts for the Mirrorball Tour, which begins in Edinburgh on Monday.  In Southend and Bournemouth, James Walsh (of Starsailor) will be opening the show.  James has a solo album in the pipeline, and has recently been playing some low-key dates round the UK and Europe.  He is currently on a short tour of India where he is raising funds for the charity Bombay Teen Challenge.

For all other dates, the Glasgow based four-piece Unkle Bob will be supporting.  Unkle Bob have just put the finishing touches on their second album, which was recorded with producer Ken Nelson (Gomez, Kings of Convenience, Coldplay, Badly Drawn Boy), and have three tracks from this streaming on their website at the moment if you’d like to check them out.

James will be performing at Latitude Festival for the first time this summer, alongside some excellent bands, including Belle & Sebastian, Jónsi from Sigur Rós, Grizzly Bear, The National, Richard Hawley, as well as Vampire Weekend, Florence + the Machine, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Wild Beasts, and Charlotte Gainsbourg, with many exciting names yet to be announced. For details of the line up as it’s confirmed please visit the Latitude website.

The festival is held at Henham Park, Southwold, Suffolk, and James will be appearing on the Main Stage (Obelisk Arena) on Saturday the 17th of July. Their stage time is yet to be confirmed, but they should have a set length of approximately 45 minutes.

In addition to the musical line up, the four day festival is also hosting the Literary Arena, where there will be readings and discussions with a variety of authors, including Bret Easton Ellis (Less than Zero, American Psycho), and Jon McGregor (If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, So Many Ways to Begin), as well as poetry readings by ‘The Bard of Salford’, John Cooper Clarke, and an appearance by New Order’s Peter Hook, who will be discussing his new book on the rise and fall of Manchester’s infamous Haçienda nightclub, entitled How Not to Run a Club.

Tickets are on sale now through the Latitude website, and there are both weekend and day tickets available at this time.

Tickets are also available from Gigantic, who give ten percent of their profits to Oxfam. You can order online from gigantic.com.

James will be headlining Solfest 2010, which takes place over the August bank holiday weekend, from Friday the 27th – Sunday the 29th, and is situated near Silloth in western Cumbria, in a beautiful rural area between the Cumbrian Mountains and the Solway Firth.  The band will be appearing on the Main Stage on Saturday the 28th.  Other acts already confirmed to appear are The Magic Numbers and Alabama 3.  Visit the festival website for more information and the full line up as it is announced.

Solfest is a non-commercial music and arts event run by a Cumbrian arts organisation, and all profits are re-invested into the festival. Tickets are on sale now, and the costs are as follows:

Adult weekend £89
Youth (12-16) weekend £62
Children (6-11) weekend £25
Children under the age of 5 are free, however they do require a ticket.

There will be no day tickets for this event, as the organisers would like to encourage festival-goers to come for the full weekend experience.  However, caravans, camper vans, trailer tents, etc. are all welcome at Solfest and at no extra charge.  Parking for all vehicles is free.

Tickets are not available online, but may be purchased over the telephone from the Carnegie Arts Centre box office on 01900 602122, as well as in person at a number of local outlets:

The Carnegie Theatre, Workington, 01900 602122 (telephone and counter sales, cash and cards accepted)
Carlisle (English Street Branch) of The Cumberland Building Society (walk-in only)
Aspatria Branch of The Cumberland Building Society (walk-in only)
Silloth Branch of The Cumberland Building Society (walk-in only)
Wigton Branch of The Cumberland Building Society (walk-in only)