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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.

James are pleased to announce that on Saturday 11th August they will be headlining the Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival, which takes place in a picturesque setting near Beauly, Inverness-shire. The site is located approximately ten miles from the city of Inverness in the breathtaking Scottish Highlands, on the 1100 acre Belladrum Estate.

Tickets are available from the 24-hour box office on 0870 169 0100, or online via Ticketmaster or The Booth. You can also purchase tickets in person at Mania (Inverness), One Up (Aberdeen) or Tickets Scotland (Edinburgh & Glasgow).

Full details on the event are available at tartanheartfestival.co.uk. Scottish Citylink will be running a dedicated coach service linking the festival site to Inverness, Glasgow, and Edinburgh; please see their site for more details.

The band will also be heading to Greece to join the Fly Beeyond Festival at the Olympic Stadium, Athens. James will headline on the 18th July. Ticket information to follow.

James are set to appear at the Summercase Festival in Spain, playing across 2 cities – Madrid on the 13th July and Barcelona on the 14th July. Tickets are now available from www.ticktackticket.com or via phone on 902150025. To buy tickets from abroad, call +34 934 450 660.

The band have also revealed they will be playing at the Oxegen Festival in Ireland on Sunday 8th July 2007. More festival appearances are set to be announced over the coming days.

The warm-up show at Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen, which was due to take place last night, Tuesday 10th April, has been rescheduled. The gig, exclusively for wearejames.com subscribers, was pulled at late notice due to Tim’s shoulder injury, but a replacement date will now take place tomorrow, Thursday 12th April, at Nambucca, 596 Holloway Road, London, N7 6LB. All Ticketweb purchasers should have now been notified of the new details. We apologise for the short notice of these changes, and are sorry to anyone left disappointed.

Doors will open from 7:30pm tomorrow night, and the band are due on stage at 8:30pm. Please note ONLY tickets purchased for the original gig will be valid on the night. No tickets will be available at the venue.

If you can’t make the show, you are entitled to a refund, which can be claimed via Ticketweb on 08700 600 100. Please try to organise this by 2pm tomorrow, as any tickets that are refunded may be made available to other fans via the James website.

Update: There are a very limited number of tickets for tonight on sale through Ticketweb now… be quick!

To mark the release of the ‘Fresh As A Daisy’ album, a special instore event is set for HMV Manchester (90 Market St) on Monday April 30. Kicking off at 5pm, James will be performing instore followed by a signing session. A limited number of wristbands for entry to the event will be available from the store upon opening Monday morning. (One pair of wristbands per customer maximum, in person only, while stocks last!)