On episode 180 of The
JAMES have released their 18th studio album DELICIOUS which reached number one in UK Albums Chart after 42 years in the music industry and in March tim cabin published his first novel When I first died.
In this interview, Tim talks about writing and recording DELICIOUSupcoming live shows writing your first novel and much more. Listen to Episode #180 of The XS Noize Podcast with Tim Booth – BELOW:
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DELICIOUS is the band's eighteenth studio album and was produced by Leo Abrahams (Brian Eno, Jarvis Cocker, Jon Hopkins, Imogen Heap, Regina Spektor) and mixed by Cenzo Townsend (Courteeners, The Specials, Everything Everything). The album art has been directed and designed by Studio Fury whose previous work includes the campaign for the Rolling Stones' latest album, Hackney Diamonds.
DELICIOUS TRACK LIST
• This is Love
• Life is a fucking miracle
• Better with You
• Stay
• Shadow of a giant
• Way above your head
• Mobile God
• Our world
• Rogue
• Hey
• Butterfly
• Friends
The album is also available in a 2-CD deluxe edition, the second CD of which is called Pudding and comprises demos produced by the band's four songwriters.
PUDDING TRACK LIST
• Nobody but you
• Close enough
• Mine to lose
• Activist song
• It will not be the same
• Tell me something
• Poolewe Day 1 Jam 4
• Arpen Charp
• Deliver the dawn
• Some Pleasure
• Walks upright
• Outtakes from the 50s
JAMES are back on tour with their biggest ever UK stadium tour in June. The tour includes the new Co-op Live Arena in Manchester and culminates at The O2 in London, the first time the band has played a 20,000-capacity venue. The tour is followed by several orchestral performances and festival appearances throughout the summer.
JUNE
Mon 03 ABERDEEN P&J live
Wed 05 NEWCASTLE Utilita Arena
Fri 07 GLASGOW OVO Hydro
Saturday 08 LEEDS First Direct Arena
Tuesday 11 CARDIFF Utilita Arena
Wednesday 12 BIRMINGHAM Utilita Arena
Friday the 14th MANCHESTER Live Cooperative
Saturday 15 LONDON O2 Arena
JULY
Sat 06 BEDFORD Summer Sessions (Orchestral)
Sun 07 LYTHAM ST ANNES Lytham Festival (Orchestral)
Friday 19th STORNOWAY Hebcelt Festival
Thursday 25th LUDLOW Castle
Friday the 26th SCARBOROUGH Open Air Theater
AUGUST
Saturday 24th DEVON Gone Wild Festival
Buy Tim Booth's first novel 'When I First Died' here.
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