James - The Gathering Sound (Box Set)
One of the most influential bands to emerge from the creative melting pot of the eighties is Manchester born James a group who first appeared at the height of the Madchester era. The nineties saw the group attaining further successes on the back of a number of well received albums which earned the band widespread acclaim facilitating an American breakthrough that made the band a truly global force. Even today twenty-five years after the release of their debut album their popularity has remained strong with massive hits like Sit Down Lose Control Get Laid and She's a Star still regularly heard on the radio. The Gathering Sound is the band’s first box set with a scope that ranges across the entirety of their studio discography from 1986's Stutter to 2010's mini album duo The Night Before and The Morning After. The albums are presented on a single j-shaped 8GB memory stick in high quality 16 bit FLAC and 320kbs MP3 formats with videos from How Many Ways to Getting Away With It and a number of non-album hits also featured. Further to this is the presence of 3 CD's with a CD devoted solely to live rarities another to relatively unknown studio recordings and the third serving as a compilation of their last two albums. The box set also features the first ever DVD version of the band's legendary 1990 performance at the Manchester GMEX the footage of which was previously only available on VHS tape. This rich assortment of recorded material is completed by the presence of a high quality 180gsm 12 vinyl that contains 4 previously unreleased demos drawn from the Gold Mother era of the early nineties. In addition to this the package features an assortment of material including a 16 page A5 booklet with personal contributions from each member of the band a 44 page scrapbook charting the history of the band with a time line photos memorabilia and cuttings. This is an exhaustive collection in its own right with the presence of a large amount of previously unreleased or otherwise little known material including more than thirty songs and additional BBC archive recordings. This is a package no James fan should pass up. (Adam Bibby) Content: 3 CD's 1 DVD and 1 12 Vinyl 8GB USB drive featuring all of the studio albums plus non-album tracks and videos 16-page A5 booklet featuring personal contributions from each of the band members 44-page 12x12 scrapbook featuring previously unseen and rare photos memorabilia cuttings and many other items straight out of James personal archives including a complete timeline of James’s career annotated by the band four art-cards four button badges and four sticky satin replica backstage passes
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