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JAMES have announced that they will be touring the UK’s most beautiful and premier classical venues later this year - with an orchestra and choir in tow.
Additional seats in the choir have now been made available for the previously sold out London and Manchester concerts!
Tickets will be available on ALOUD.COM from 9.30AM on FRIDAY JULY 1st.
The Manchester band who’ve sold more than 20 million albums worldwide and sold 35000 live tickets in a matter of hours when they announced their comeback in 2007, will be performing songs from their extensive back catalogue - interpreted for these unique shows by the 22 piece Orchestra Of The Swan and 16 piece choir from the Manchester Consort each conducted by classical composer/conductor Joe Duddell.
Joe Duddell’s “indie-rock” credentials are impressive – in an earlier incarnation his band Pullover released a record on Fierce Panda and in 2008 he was commissioned by Manchester International Festival to orchestrate a collaboration between Elbow & The Hallé Orchestra / Youth Choir. The two celebrated performances took place in July 2009 at The Bridgewater Hall and received widespread critical acclaim.
Later that same year Duddell collaborated with James at Manchester Verses Cancer where they performed two Joy Division songs - Atmosphere and Transmission - with Peter Hook and it was a sense of unfinished business that has led to the most recent collaboration.
The concerts will see James back catalogue re-imagined for orchestra and choir and the band playing many songs they haven’t performed for years. Booth suggests that “the arrangements are really different, our songs are open-ended which is anathema to an orchestra” and Duddell agrees. “I work in both worlds”, he says, “but it’s all about translation. James talk about middle eights and verses and choruses but orchestras don’t.”
He adds:“James hardly ever play the same song twice so the orchestra has had to adjust.” They both agree that what makes it work is that James have become part of the orchestra itself.
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