James Tickets

Manchester indie legends James entered a six-year hiatus in December 2001, but such was the connection and fervency of their fanbase that their 2007 reunion was met with such renewed success that it was as though they’d never been away. James’s celebrated second era, launched with 2008’s Hey Ma, would earn them more Top 20 album placings and faster ticket sales than their whirlwind initial run, completing an unbroken run of 15 Top Twenty albums since 1990.

Their fortieth anniversary in 2023 was celebrated with a tour of inspired orchestral reworkings of hits, b-asides and obscure favourites – and a studio recording Be Opened by the Wonderful – but this was far from a full stop. As Booth sings on the anti-ageism anthem ‘Rogue’ on Yummy: “some of us still have work to do”.