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Laid
Other Songs 5-0 72 Above The Lake Afro Lover Alaskan Pipeline All Good Boys All Im Saying All In My Mind All The Colours Of You Alvida Alvin Are You Ready Assassin Attention Avalanche Baba Basic Brian Beautiful Beaches Believe Me Better Than That Better With You Billy's Shirts Bitch Bitter Virtue Black Hole Blue Pastures Boom Boom Born Of Frustration Bottom Of The Well Breaking It In Bring A Gun Broken By the Hurt Bubbles Building A Fire Burn the Cat Burned Butterfly Butterfly Dreams Catapult Certified Chain Mail Charlie Dance Chemical China Girl Come Home Comfort Zone Coming Home (Pt. 2) Crash Crazy Created to Praise Creek and Back Crescendo Curse Curse DAYLIGHT Dear John DEMONS Destiny Calling Destruction of My Friends (Lost Dogs) different paths DNA Don't Forget to Say Goodnight Dont Wait That Long Dr Hellier Dream Thrum Dream Up Tomorrow Dumb Jam Dust Motes English Beefcake ERASE Everybody Knows Extraordinary Times Face in the Mirror Fairground Fall In Love With Me Falling Down Falsetto Far Stars Fear Feel The Tension Feels Like Feet of Clay Fight Find My Girl (She's On The Run) Fine Fire So Close Five-o Flash of Rationality FLY AWAY Folklore Folks Forget About You Forgive Me Frequency Dip Frozen Britain Fruit Gaudi Get Down Getting Away With It Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) Getting Myself Into Girl at the End of the World Give a Damn Give It Away Go To The Bank Goal Goal Aoal Goal Goal Goal Goalie's Ball God Only Knows Gold Mother Gone Baby Gone gone girl Gone Too Far Good Thang Gospel Oak Got The Shakes Goverment Walls Government Walls Greenpeace Hands In The Rain Hang On Haymaker Heads Heart Heavens Hello Hello, I'm Strange Her Own Sanity Hero Hey Hey Ma Hit Parade Holler Holly Home Street Homebody Homeboy Honest Joe Honest Pleasure How Hard The Day How Was It For You? Hush Hymn From A Village I Believe I Defeat I Know What Im Here For I LIKE IT I Love You I Think I'm Supposed to Like This I Wanna Go Home I WON'T LET YOU BACK (INTERLUDE) If Things Were Perfect I'm Your Puppet In My Life In Vain Interrogation Is This Love Isabella Its Hot Jam J Johnny Yen Junkie Just Hip Just Like Fred Astaire Just Like Fred Astire Kaleidoscope Kill a Man Knuckle to Far Knuckle Too Far Lay The Law Down Leaking Let Love Come Between Us Leviathan Life Gets Better Life's A Fucking Miracle Live A Love Of Life Lookaway Lord I Need You Lose Control Lost A Friend Lost Again Love Make A Fool Love Tonight loveless Low Low Low Lullaby M Magic Bus Make For This City Mama Many Faces Maria Mask Medieval Miss America Mobile God Mon Amar Pathorer Deyal Mosquito Mother MOTION Move Down South Moving On My Love My Reason Why Narakijijwe Next Lover Noon Ngayon at Bukas Not There Nothing But Love Nothing Left to Love Of Monsters And Heroes And Men Of Monsters & Heroes & Men Oh My Heart Oh Sit Down Old Letters Old Ways ON A CLOUD On My Way One Little Moment One Of The Three Only Thing Opening OUR LOVE Our World Out To Get You Padmo Patar Jol Paradox Parfun bleu (James) Picture of This Place Play Dead Please Don't Bother Pleased To Meet You Porcupine PR4SING Pressures On Protect Me Protect+Me P.s. Purple Days Quicken The Dead Rabbit Hole RADIO SILENCE Ready To Die Real One Really Hard Recover Rhythmic Dreams Riders Ring The Bells Rise Through The Night Rising Rogue Runaground Sandman Say It SAY LESS Say Something Sayonara Scarecrow Semaphore Senorita Seven Shadow Of A Giant Shaken Not Stirred She Moves SheÂ’s A Star Shine Shooting My Mouth Off Shopno Hara Since You've Been Home Sit Down Skindiving Skullduggery So Long, Marianne So Many Ways Someones Got It In For Me Sometimes Sorry Sound Space Stained Glass Stay Still Alive Stolen Horse Strangers Stripmining Stutter Summer Songs Sun Goes Down Sunday Morning supersonic love Surfer's Song Surprise SYMPHONY Tell Her I Said So TELL ME WHAT U WANT Ten Below Tennessee Song The Bite The Dance Of Bad Angels The Lake The One I Love to Find The Shining There Has Been No One Else Things Are Not Like They Seem This Is My Day To My Surprise Tomorrow Tonight Tonight (Everything's Gonna Be Alright) Top Of The World Two Day Wish Two Roads Undertaker Upside Vervaceous Vervacious Vulture Waking Walk Like You Walk My Way Walking The Ghost Waltzing Along War Came Around Water Love Waterfall Watering Hole Way Over Your Head We Can the World Were Going to Miss You Were Gonna Miss You What For What Is It Good For What I've Been Doing What Now? What to Do What's the World Wherever It Takes Us wherever u go White Flash Whiteboy Whoops Why So Close William Burroughs Withdrawn XYST Ya Ho You Are Alpha You Are Good Lord You Cant Tell How Much Suffering You Left the Water Running You Suck You Fucker ZERO
Other Songs 5-0 72 Above The Lake Afro Lover Alaskan Pipeline All Good Boys All Im Saying All In My Mind All The Colours Of You Alvida Alvin Are You Ready Assassin Attention Avalanche Baba Basic Brian Beautiful Beaches Believe Me Better Than That Better With You Billy's Shirts Bitch Bitter Virtue Black Hole Blue Pastures Boom Boom Born Of Frustration Bottom Of The Well Breaking It In Bring A Gun Broken By the Hurt Bubbles Building A Fire Burn the Cat Burned Butterfly Butterfly Dreams Catapult Certified Chain Mail Charlie Dance Chemical China Girl Come Home Comfort Zone Coming Home (Pt. 2) Crash Crazy Created to Praise Creek and Back Crescendo Curse Curse DAYLIGHT Dear John DEMONS Destiny Calling Destruction of My Friends (Lost Dogs) different paths DNA Don't Forget to Say Goodnight Dont Wait That Long Dr Hellier Dream Thrum Dream Up Tomorrow Dumb Jam Dust Motes English Beefcake ERASE Everybody Knows Extraordinary Times Face in the Mirror Fairground Fall In Love With Me Falling Down Falsetto Far Stars Fear Feel The Tension Feels Like Feet of Clay Fight Find My Girl (She's On The Run) Fine Fire So Close Five-o Flash of Rationality FLY AWAY Folklore Folks Forget About You Forgive Me Frequency Dip Frozen Britain Fruit Gaudi Get Down Getting Away With It Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) Getting Myself Into Girl at the End of the World Give a Damn Give It Away Go To The Bank Goal Goal Aoal Goal Goal Goal Goalie's Ball God Only Knows Gold Mother Gone Baby Gone gone girl Gone Too Far Good Thang Gospel Oak Got The Shakes Goverment Walls Government Walls Greenpeace Hands In The Rain Hang On Haymaker Heads Heart Heavens Hello Hello, I'm Strange Her Own Sanity Hero Hey Hey Ma Hit Parade Holler Holly Home Street Homebody Homeboy Honest Joe Honest Pleasure How Hard The Day How Was It For You? Hush Hymn From A Village I Believe I Defeat I Know What Im Here For I LIKE IT I Love You I Think I'm Supposed to Like This I Wanna Go Home I WON'T LET YOU BACK (INTERLUDE) If Things Were Perfect I'm Your Puppet In My Life In Vain Interrogation Is This Love Isabella Its Hot Jam J Johnny Yen Junkie Just Hip Just Like Fred Astaire Just Like Fred Astire Kaleidoscope Kill a Man Knuckle to Far Knuckle Too Far Lay The Law Down Leaking Let Love Come Between Us Leviathan Life Gets Better Life's A Fucking Miracle Live A Love Of Life Lookaway Lord I Need You Lose Control Lost A Friend Lost Again Love Make A Fool Love Tonight loveless Low Low Low Lullaby M Magic Bus Make For This City Mama Many Faces Maria Mask Medieval Miss America Mobile God Mon Amar Pathorer Deyal Mosquito Mother MOTION Move Down South Moving On My Love My Reason Why Narakijijwe Next Lover Noon Ngayon at Bukas Not There Nothing But Love Nothing Left to Love Of Monsters And Heroes And Men Of Monsters & Heroes & Men Oh My Heart Oh Sit Down Old Letters Old Ways ON A CLOUD On My Way One Little Moment One Of The Three Only Thing Opening OUR LOVE Our World Out To Get You Padmo Patar Jol Paradox Parfun bleu (James) Picture of This Place Play Dead Please Don't Bother Pleased To Meet You Porcupine PR4SING Pressures On Protect Me Protect+Me P.s. Purple Days Quicken The Dead Rabbit Hole RADIO SILENCE Ready To Die Real One Really Hard Recover Rhythmic Dreams Riders Ring The Bells Rise Through The Night Rising Rogue Runaground Sandman Say It SAY LESS Say Something Sayonara Scarecrow Semaphore Senorita Seven Shadow Of A Giant Shaken Not Stirred She Moves SheÂ’s A Star Shine Shooting My Mouth Off Shopno Hara Since You've Been Home Sit Down Skindiving Skullduggery So Long, Marianne So Many Ways Someones Got It In For Me Sometimes Sorry Sound Space Stained Glass Stay Still Alive Stolen Horse Strangers Stripmining Stutter Summer Songs Sun Goes Down Sunday Morning supersonic love Surfer's Song Surprise SYMPHONY Tell Her I Said So TELL ME WHAT U WANT Ten Below Tennessee Song The Bite The Dance Of Bad Angels The Lake The One I Love to Find The Shining There Has Been No One Else Things Are Not Like They Seem This Is My Day To My Surprise Tomorrow Tonight Tonight (Everything's Gonna Be Alright) Top Of The World Two Day Wish Two Roads Undertaker Upside Vervaceous Vervacious Vulture Waking Walk Like You Walk My Way Walking The Ghost Waltzing Along War Came Around Water Love Waterfall Watering Hole Way Over Your Head We Can the World Were Going to Miss You Were Gonna Miss You What For What Is It Good For What I've Been Doing What Now? What to Do What's the World Wherever It Takes Us wherever u go White Flash Whiteboy Whoops Why So Close William Burroughs Withdrawn XYST Ya Ho You Are Alpha You Are Good Lord You Cant Tell How Much Suffering You Left the Water Running You Suck You Fucker ZERO
James are an English rock band from Manchester, formed in 1982. They achieved popularity during the 1990s, with four top-10 hits on the UK Singles Chart and nine top-10 placings on the UK Albums Chart. The band's best-known singles include "Come Home", "Sit Down", "She's a Star" and "Laid".
"Laid" also became a hit on American college radio. Following the departure of lead singer Tim Booth in 2001, the band became inactive, but members reunited in January 2007 and have since released a further seven albums. Live performance has continually remained a central part of the band's output. As of 2010, the band had sold more than 25 million albums worldwide.
Members:
"Laid" also became a hit on American college radio. Following the departure of lead singer Tim Booth in 2001, the band became inactive, but members reunited in January 2007 and have since released a further seven albums. Live performance has continually remained a central part of the band's output. As of 2010, the band had sold more than 25 million albums worldwide.
Jim Glennie - bass guitar, backing vocals (1982-2001, 2007-present)
Tim Booth - lead vocals (1982-2001, 2007-present)
Adrian Oxaal - lead guitar, cello (1995-2001, 2015-present)
David Baynton-Power - drums, percussion (1988-2001, 2007-present)
Saul Davies - rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, violin, percussion, backing vocals (1989-2001, 2007-present)
Mark Hunter - keyboards, piano, programming (1989-2001, 2007-present)
Andy Diagram - trumpet, percussion, backing vocals (1989-1992, 2001, 2007-present)
Deborah Knox-Hewson - backing vocals, percussion, drums (2018 touring, 2021-present)
Chloe Alper - backing vocals, percussion (2018-present)
Name Origin:
James were formed in 1982 in Whalley Range, Manchester, when Paul Gilbertson persuaded his friend Jim Glennie to buy a bass guitar and form a band with him. Their line-up solidified when Gavan Whelan joined on drums. They played a string of gigs under the names Venereal and the Diseases and Volume Distortion before settling on the name of Model Team International, then shortened to Model Team.
They performed mostly improvised material derived from jam sessions, supporting The Fall at an early gig at Manchester Polytechnic. Vocalists and other musicians drifted rapidly in and out of their line-up until the band encountered Tim Booth at a student disco. Gilbertson invited him to the band's scout hut in Withington to join the band as a dancer; he was soon promoted to lead singer.
In August 1982, after a brief period under the name Tribal Outlook, the band renamed themselves James, after Glennie. As Glennie later said:
"No one ever calls me James, so I don't associate it with my name in that respect. We couldn't use Tim because he's the singer and that would be weird. Our drummer was called Gavan, and we thought it sounded too 'heavy metal,' and the other one was Paul, so it was either James or Paul, so we went with James. It didn't seem like a big deal at the time we just thought, "Cool let's call the band 'James.'"
From: Whalley Range, Manchester, England
Genre(s): Indie pop, Madchester, alternative rock, Britpop
Active From: 1982-2001, 2007-present
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