James' SetList

[malaonda]

Looking for James' set list please...  

[bellenseb]

Don't have the setlist, but they played around 5 songs from the new album Hey Ma; Out to Get You, Dream Thrum, Laid, Sometimes and Say Something from Laid. I also remember: Ring the Bell, Giving It Up (All Messed Up), Sit Down, Tomorrow, Born of Frustration, Come Home, Don't Wait Too Long. About the only thing I was surprised not to hear was She's a Star. Great show!

[Vas Deferens]

I loved the show and I'm not even a fan  

[kosmo vinyl]

Originally posted by wanderlust j. marshmallow:
  I loved the show and I'm not even a fan      

i concur, being one of those greatest hits fans even i was enthralled start to finish... wow was that audience in rapture last night and not just for the hits

[Zaphod]

best concert i've seen in years

[kosmo vinyl]

Here's a picture of the setlist but it doesn't have the all the songs played in the encore
 
  http://www.flickr.com/photos/faithdesired/2869966246/in/set-72157607367773538/
 
 Oh My Heart
 Ring The Bell
 Waterfall
 White Boy
 Five-0
 Bubbles
 Come Home
 Dream Thrum
 I Wanna Go Home
 Out to You Get You
 Upside
 Hey Ma
 Sit Down
 Sound
 Sometimes
 Laid
 
 Tomorrow
 Getting Away With It
 Frustration
 Don't Wait Too Long
 (not sure about order or exact encore songs)
 
 The Post dug the show
 
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/19/AR2008091903590.html
 
 James
 
 At this point, it only qualifies as news when bands of yesteryear don't reunite. (Way to keep it real, Talking Heads and the Smiths.) James -- that's the band's name, after bassist Jim Glennie -- clawed its way to stardom in England over the course of a 20-year career but had just one U.S. hit, the mid-'90s dorm-room anthem "Laid." Still, that's one more hit than plenty of other bands that have recently regrouped, and the sold-out 9:30 club Thursday night was proof that there's actual demand for this particular return. What made the two-hour performance so satisfying was that the highlights were equally split between old fan favorites and selections from the band's excellent new album, "Hey Ma." This wasn't some simple exercise in nostalgia: James proved itself to be plenty relevant more than two decades after its first album.
 
 The biggest cheers from the enthusiastic crowd came for wistful chestnuts such as "Sit Down" and "Come Home" and, of course, the still-frisky "Laid," which featured singer Tim Booth at his yodeling finest. But the most moving numbers were the soaring anthems from "Hey Ma," including the antiwar title track, which made up for any lyrical heavy-handedness with a forceful vocal hook delivered over appropriately rumbling drums.
 
 The new songs took full advantage of the seven-piece lineup onstage, particularly Andy Diagram, whose trumpet blasts provided a nice counter to Larry Gott's shimmering guitar lines. The climaxes of "Waterfall" and "Bubbles" made some of the older songs seem almost quaint by comparison -- and when Booth bellowed, "I'm alive!" it served as an appropriate statement on the band's return.
 
 -- David Malitz

[Zaphod]

David Malitz?  I remember we dj'd in the same years at WMUC.  ANd like he said, playing James "dorm-room anthems" and giving my neighbors something nice to listen to for a change.  all they played was the f'ing Makarena...  oof