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[DID NOT ATTEND: September 7, 2025] James: Laid and Deep Cuts

Back in the day I rally liked James a lot.  I got into them through Laid and listened to most of their music over the years.  Although I stopped listening in 2001.  Turns out that broke up and reunited in 2008 and I totally missed it.  Haven’t heard anything on their reunion albums (there are 9, as many as they put out before they broke up).

A few days before the show a DJ on WXPN was listing all of the songs he hoped they’d play and I started to remember all the songs I liked by them. But it was too late to go by then.

Interestingly, James doesn’t come to the US very often.  They opened for Johnny Marr last year, and the previous tour was in 2016 (they played Kung Fu Necktie, which is so tiny it’s insane–they also played there in 2015).

Looking at the setlist, it was pretty good.  They played all of Laid, but not in order–they stretched it out through the whole show.  In addition to Laid, they played three songs from 7, 2 from Whiplash (which I really liked), 1 from Gold Mother and 1 from Pleased to Meet You.  The rest were new songs that I didn’t know.

So I’m not that bummed about missing it.