The Night Before The Morning After tour

After just finishing a sell-out nationwide tour, James will be returning in December for a seven-date jaunt around the UK, joined by special guests The Pigeon Detectives.

With a career that includes 10 studio albums, 20 UK Top 40 singles and 12 million albums sold, James have also released the first of two mini albums. 

Titled The Night Before the mini album contains all brand-new studio material from the seven-piece band. Produced by Lee ‘Muddy’ Baker (who produced Hey Ma as well as Booth’s solo album Bone in 2004), The Night Before seems fearless in comparison to its predecessors, a product, no doubt, of the way it was conceived. The band set up an ftp site to which they all contributed, downloading and updating each other’s efforts at various intervals whilst Baker knocked things into shape.

This "virtual" recording process was inspired by the band’s history of working with Brian Eno and has brought out the best in James, the results proving as diverse and intriguing as anything the band have attempted before.  

The band are heading back to the studio in August to spend five days recording "naturally and playing together in a big room" with no overdubs and with a view to capturing "something spontaneous". This will make up the second part of the mini album to be released on Monday 2 August, entitled The Morning After. They will also be spending the summer playing at many of the world’s biggest festivals, including the Isle of Wight Festival, Latitude and Beautiful Days in the UK. 

Praise for The Night Before mini album - out now...

"One of the strongest efforts of their career." The Guardian - four stars