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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)

Sneak preview

As you’re no doubt aware, James are set to release the first of two mini-albums planned for 2010 next month. Volume one, entitled The Night Before, is due out on 19th April, and we have set up a special preview to give our online subscribers and friends a chance to listen to a selection of the new songs. So without further ado…

Listen on wearejames.com, or listen/share via soundcloud.com.

These five tracks – It’s Hot, Crazy, Ten Below, Dr. Hellier, and Porcupine – will be online for the next two weeks only (until Monday 5th April), and are intended as a treat preview especially for those of you who are planning to see the band on the Mirrorball Tour next month, which will be your first chance to hear some of the new songs live.

We’ll have more news on the album very shortly, so keep an eye on the news here on wearejames.com.

Worldwide pre-orders

If you haven’t already pre-ordered the album, you can do so through our website for just £4.95 (plus p&p – check site for details) right here in the shop.

Happy Listening!

James are set to headline the Saturday night at Devon’s Beautiful Days festival this summer. Beautiful Days is a family music festival set in the heart of Devon, which is now in its eighth year.  It takes place at Escot Park, Ottery St. Mary (near Exeter) from 20th – 22nd August and James will be performing on Saturday the 21st. There will be live music across five stages, as well as a huge children’s area in the centre of the festival, walkabout theatre, site art, comedy, food and craft stalls, a village shop, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s River Cottage Canteen, and a selection of pub-price bars run by Otter Brewery.

Tickets are on sale now, and prices have been held from last year. Adult weekend camping tickets are £100 (ages 16+). Please note that children of all ages must have a ticket, and prices are as follows: tickets for ages 10 to 15 will be £60, ages 5 to 9 will be £30, and for those under 5 years of age, tickets are priced at £5. Campervan passes are £35, and car routing/parking passes are £15. Day tickets for the festival are not available.

You can purchase tickets online from levellers.co.uk, artistticket.com, seetickets.com.

For more information on the event and for details of the line up as it is announced, please visit the festival website.

We are pleased to confirm that the band will be playing two shows in Greece in the Spring. If you live locally, or fancy a trip for a show and (hopefully) a bit of sunshine, come and join us:

Friday 30th April – Apollo Stadium, Patras, Greece
Saturday 1st May – Tae Kwon Do Stadium, Athens, Greece

Tickets range from 35€ to 45€ in Patras, and 40€ (standing) to 50€ (seated) for Athens.  They go on sale on Wednesday 10th March, and will be available from the following outlets:

Athens

www.i-ticket.gr
www.ticketarena.gr

Patras

www.bookings.keramidastravel.gr

The ticketing websites are in the local language of Greek.  However, the kind folk at i-ticket.gr have provided a direct link to the English version of their page for Athens concert tickets, to assist foreign fans who wish to attend but are having trouble navigating the site: Athens tickets (English).

Don’t forget that you can now pre-order the new mini-album The Night Before, due out next month, from the wearejames.com shop for the rather excellent price of £4.95 plus postage and packing (£2 within the UK and most of Europe, £3.50 to most of North and South America, check the site for details of other locations – it is available worldwide). The mini-album is also available in MP3 format for just £4.45. Enter the shop here: wearejames.com/shop

James have just been confirmed for next year’s Isle of Wight Festival, which will take place from 11th – 13th June 2010, at Seaclose Park on the Isle of Wight.  James will be headlining the Big Top on Sunday the 13th.  Other acts already confirmed to appear over the course of the weekend include Jay-Z, The Strokes, Doves, Blondie, and Orbital, with many more to be announced in the coming weeks.

Tickets are on sale now from the usual outlets; see Live page for ticketing links and telephone numbers.

For more information, and details of further acts as they’re confirmed, please visit the Isle of Wight Festival website.