James - no Sit down wtf?

[Walter Sobchak]

Very disappointing 

[Rick182]

it was too muddy

[the salmon]

30 odd years of making records, 100's of song to chose from.  Didn't play a hell of a lot of songs.....

 

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

1 minute ago, the salmon said:

30 odd years of making records, 100's of song to chose from.  Didn't play a hell of a lot of songs.....

 

How long were they on for then? Did they play 'Sound'?

[the salmon]

55 minutes.  Didnt play sound.  Of the older ones you got Come Home, Getting Away with it, Tomorrow, Laid and Out to Get You.  

5 songs of the new album

[lamstonite]

Cracking Sometimes too

They hardly ever play Sit Down these days

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

30 minutes ago, the salmon said:

55 minutes.  Didnt play sound.  Of the older ones you got Come Home, Getting Away with it, Tomorrow, Laid and Out to Get You.  

5 songs of the new album

Thanks for responding and the info the salmon. I've never (knowingly) heard Sound by James live. If one really has to have a bucket list, then it would be on mine.

[themuel]

I've seen them three times at various festivals and never seen them do Sit Down. 

[wozwebs]

Christ, no one complains if Radiohead don't play Creep, soon as James don't play Sit Down loads of moaning. 

[Al2006]

They were massively disappointing. Missed the mark for me, I saw them at festival no 6 and they were great. Bored me on fri

[MoilyX]

2 hours ago, wozwebs said:

Christ, no one complains if Radiohead don't play Creep, soon as James don't play Sit Down loads of moaning. 

Very much, this ^.

It beggars belief that a band with such a huge back catalogue as James and still knocking out great albums get derided for not playing a commercial-at-the-time hit that hasn't stood the test of time and has been out-done by album tracks released 20-odd years later. Sit Down is nowhere near the Top 20 James tracks of all time.

That being said they probably stretched the 'we need to highlight we're not a retro band reforming past glories' a bit too far by doing 'Attention' which rightly fell flat but then they weren't helped by Michael's intro as 'one of the greatest bands of the 80's'..?! Tim's face was priceless.

[hurdy]

Out to Get You had me in bits. Amazing. 

[r0nin]

"Getting away with it" sum James up perfectly.

[stutheblue]

They opened with it at Bearded Theory last year. Great set from what I recall, good mix of old and new stuff.

[AnnaGrant]

Too muddy to Sit Down.

James's Bearded Theory set last year was excellent. 

[found home in 2009]

I think in normal circumstance it would have been a decent set.

 

Considering everyone had dragged themselves out for the first act of the day through really muddy conditions only for it to be delayed for ages with very little info on what was happening I think it might have been an idea to play a few more hits to lift an understandably flat crowd.

Really impressed with how out of his face the singer was without it seeming to affect his singing at all.

[Mash011]

12 hours ago, wozwebs said:

Christ, no one complains if Radiohead don't play Creep, soon as James don't play Sit Down loads of moaning. 

Because Radiohead have good songs to pay instead while James have none 

[danbailey80]

The issue wasn't so much as not playing Sit Down. It was the set list as a whole far too many new songs that are frankly very weak and so many classics not played. 

[wozwebs]

3 hours ago, Mash011 said:

Because Radiohead have good songs to pay instead while James have none 

Each to their own but Radiohead have been pretty much unlistenable to me since The Bends

[Pinhead]

Didnt help that they were an hour late on stage due to flooding just in front. They hate Sit Down now anyway and avoid playing it.

[septemberwillow]

On ‎26‎/‎06‎/‎2016 at 11:07 AM, found home in 2009 said:

Really impressed with how out of his face the singer was without it seeming to affect his singing at all.

Are you being serious?

They were on Jo Whiley a couple of weeks ago and said then that they wouldn't be doing Sit Down.

I like them but my other half is a massive fan. We've been to see them loads and often I'm feeling 'really? James again?' but they always put on a great show.

Moving On from the last album is one of the best things they've ever done.

[tevaburger]

shambolic i thought. i'm guess-timating 6 of the first 8 they did were from new or the last album? and he said "the most famous one from our new album" as if to mock us? I should have seen the Syrians, how were they?

Sometimes was great tho

[ManchesterGlasto]

I thought they were awesome - best start to the festival. The crowd around us were really into it and we all had a great time dancing away to old and new tunes.

didnt seem 'off his face' to me - not different to how he is at other gigs. 

[Walter Sobchak]

It was dull as fuck, should be doing a hits set not shite from latest washed up album. 

[MoilyX]

2 minutes ago, Walter Sobchak said:

should be doing a hits set not shite from latest washed up album. 

Why, exactly?

I think you'll find Muse, Adele, Coldplay and every other act still producing new material did some of the material in their sets, and so can they. If you're not a fan then fair enough, suck it up or go see someone else.