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James will play at the Oran Mor in Glasgow this Friday as a special warm-up for T in the Park. The venue, in the crypt of the former Kelvinside parish church, only holds 480, so be quick. Tickets are on sale now via a special pre-sale link which is available to members of the wearejames.com forum (sign in and check the index) and our MySpace friends (check your bulletins).

Update 4/7: This show is now sold out.

Radar Live Solar Beach, Istanbul 30 June 2007
Headlining Main Stage 23:35 – 01:05 The Magic Numbers/The Rapture/JAMES

T in the Park nr. Kinross, Scotland 7 July 2007
Main Stage 16:45 – 17:45 JAMES/Arcade Fire/Razorlight/The Killers

Oxegen Punchestown Racecourse, Co. Kildare, Ireland 8 July 2007
Green Room Stage 22:30 – 23:45

Summercase Madrid 13 July 2007
Main Stage 20:40 – 21:55 JAMES/The Jesus And Mary Chain/Kaiser Chiefs

Summercase Barcelona 14 July 2007
Main Stage 20:40 – 21:55 JAMES/The Jesus And Mary Chain/Kaiser Chiefs

Fly Beeyond Festival Athens Olympic Stadium 18 July 2007
Headlining Main Stage 23:30 – 00:00 Tori Amos/Air/JAMES

Latvia Positivus Festival Salacgriva 28 July 2007
Main Stage 23:30 – 01:00 Stereophonics/JAMES

Sudoeste Festival Zambujeira do Mar, Alentejo, Portugal 5 August 2007
Headlining Main Stage – Times TBC Razorlight/Phoenix/Mika/JAMES

T on the Fringe @ Edinburgh Corn Exchange 10 August 2007
Doors 7:30, Support TBA

Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival Beauly, nr. Inverness, Scotland 11 August 2007
Headlining Main Stage – Times TBC

V Festival Weston Park, Staffordshire 18 August 2007
Main Stage – Times TBC JAMES/Kasabian/The Killers

V Festival Hylands Park, Chelmsford 19 August 2007
Main Stage – Times TBC JAMES/Kasabian/The Killers

*N.B. All times subject to change. Please check our forum prior to each event for full line-up across all stages where available.

We are pleased to announce that James will be calling in at the Edinburgh Fringe en route to Belladrum this August to play at the Corn Exchange on Friday the 10th.

Tickets go on sale this Friday (8th June) and are available from tonthefringe.com, or by telephone on 0870 169 0100.

James will be returning to Portugal for one of their biggest summer events, Sudoeste Festival, on Sunday 5th August 2007, and will also be embarking on their first ever visit to Latvia to headline the Positivus Festival in Salacgriva on Saturday 28th July.

For more information on Sudoeste Festival, which takes place near the fishing village of Zambujeira do Mar, Alentejo, please visit their website at musicanocoracao.pt. Tickets are on sale now and available from Ticketline Portugal. Day tickets cost €40, and four-day passes inclusive of camping cost €70.

Tickets for Positivus Festival are on sale now, costing Ls 20 (approx. € 29) for 1-day tickets and Ls 30 (approx. € 43) for 2-day tickets, and can be purchased online here, via the link from their website here, or from ticketservice.lv. Further information on the event can be found on the festival’s website at positivusabfestival.com, or their MySpace.

For those of you who haven’t yet treated yourselves to the Fresh As A Daisy singles collection, the new download-only single Who Are You is now available from the following online retailers for a measly 77p. Go on…

7digital
iTunes

Come on over to the James MySpace if you’d like to listen to the track:

myspace.com/jamesisnotaperson

(US fans please note: You should be able to purchase the single through 7digital.)

Tim, Jim and Larry recently joined Dave Haslam in the Xfm Manchester studio for an in-depth documentary interview as well as a special acoustic session, including tracks from their new singles collection, Fresh As A Daisy. Tune in tonight from 8:50pm.

Update: The three acoustic tracks are available to listen to on the Music: Response page of the Xfm site for the rest of the week.

This Friday at 5pm, James will be performing live at Cloud 23 – The Sky Bar – on the twenty third floor of the Hilton Hotel in Manchester in front of a group of just 20 lucky fans. Today is ‘James Day’ on Key103, and they’re giving away ten pairs of tickets to the event, one an hour, so tune in for your chance to win.

Please note there will be no tickets made available for this event, the only way to get on the guestlist is to listen to Key103 throughout the day today, Thursday 10th May.

James will be kicking off the summer festival season with a trip to Turkey for the Radar Festival in Istanbul on Saturday 30th June. Tickets go on sale this week, and are available online from Biletix. Day tickets cost 65 YTL, which is approximately 36 euros.

More information on the festival is available from their website here.

James’s career-spanning singles collection, Fresh As A Daisy – The Singles is released today, 30th April. Full details of the release are available here including the recommended “band’s cut” double CD – containing all the band’s singles to date right through from 1983 to 2007 – as well as the accompanying DVD. The band will mark the release of the album with a special hometown instore set at Manchester’s HMV on Market Street at 5pm this evening, followed by a signing session. Tonight the band will play a tiny gig in front of an audience of just 300 lucky competition winners at the place where Tim first met Jim all those years ago – Club Academy (AKA The Cellar Bar) in Manchester University Student Union.

The final installment of Jim’s tour diary is now up in the blog too.

James kick off their UK tour tonight at Glasgow’s Carling Academy, following two triumphant warm-up dates in Dublin and Carlisle. The sold-out tour will run for a week, ending with a homecoming show at Manchester Evening News Arena. Birmingham band The Twang support at all dates.

Stay tuned to wearejames.com for Jim’s tour diary, which will be online very soon.

A brand new range of merchandise featuring the new James daisy will be launched tonight in Glasgow, and is also available to buy online now through the band’s official merchandise store at bandmad.com.