Tim Booth leading James at Heritage Live, June 10th 2022 (Adam Hampton-Matthews for Live4ever)
James’ festival season now moves on to Black Deer in Kent this weekend.
James were top of the bill at Heritage Live on Friday, June 10th after pandemic-related postponements had pushed the gig way beyond the release of their sixteenth studio album All The Colours Of You a year ago.
“Ever since their reformation in 2007, Booth has pulled no punches lyrically,” our review reads. “Their comeback album Hey Ma was centred around an anti-war message, and their last album, 2018’s Living In Extraordinary Times, was clearly explicit in its opinion.”
“With that in mind there are unlikely to be more topical albums in 2021 than All The Colours Of You; the title-track takes systemic racism in the US to task, backed by an unsettling keyboard riff, pounding drums and a general air of unease.”
