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Orchestra of the Swan & The Manchester Consort Choir
This autumn, an idea and creative ambition the band have long harboured is finally
coming to fruition.
James will be touring the UK, playing at many of the country's
most beautiful classical venues, with a full orchestra and choir.
An evening with James.
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'Do something out of character...'
With the help of renowned UK composer & conductor Joe Duddell, the band are enthusiastically delving deep into the back catalogue selecting songs to adapt, many of which they haven't performed in years.
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Unfinished business
The band had a ball (as anyone who witnessed the ear to ear smiles all ‘round will attest) and the set, which included both oldies and goldies - from Fairground and Hymn From A Village, to Don’t Wait That Long, Waltzing Along, and She’s a Star, as well as a simply stunning cover of Joy Division’s Atmosphere – went down a storm.
The seeds
were sown.
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It’s all about translation
Speaking of their progress with fellow Mancunian Duddell,
the band revealed, “It’s a bit more gritty than you would expect from a classical collaboration and it has a Northern edge!”
Booth adds, “The arrangements are really different, our songs are open-ended which is anathema to an orchestra.”
Duddell remarks, “James never play the same song twice so the orchestra has had to adjust.”
What makes it work is that James have become part of the orchestra itself.
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