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Midnight Meets With Colin Murray

Tim Booth

Midnight Meets With Colin Murray

BBC

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Colin talks to James frontman Tim Booth about having jaundice as a child, his early inspirations when he organised a school trip to see The Clash’s White Riot Tour, his thoughts on cults and how the band avoids complacency. Midnight Meets is part of Colin Murray’s BBC Radio 5 Live show which is on Monday to Thursday 10.30pm to 1am - or available whenever you want via the free BBC Sounds app.

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0:00.0

Hello, Gary Lednika here with Alan Shira and Michael Richards to say the match of the day top 10 podcast is back

0:07.4

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0:14.8

First season wonders to goalkeeping blunders. Nothing is off the table. You had a few blunders in your day. Did you Gary?

0:22.0

Yeah, match of the day top 10. Listen only on BBC sounds

0:27.4

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0:34.0

Hello, and welcome to another installment of my midnight meet podcast just one hour of weeknight on BBC Radio 5 live

0:41.6

You can tune into the columnar in show 10 30 p.m

0:44.0

The 1 a.m. Monday to

0:46.5

Thursday right. This is a good one signed by factory records then on the rough trade before they even had a proper hit

0:53.2

So much happened in that time, but of course sit down changed everything for the band James come home to

0:59.3

From then laid broke them in America and after one of their reunions

1:03.1

Whiplash was full of brilliance as well

1:05.8

So many stories breakups and madness and everything in between the punk shits the band's life span

1:11.3

But all these decades later, they're still making records and Tim booth intensely pride of their newest all the colors of you

1:18.1

It's just been released so without further adieu. Let's go on with it. This is our midnight meets with Tim booth from James

2:19.1

Sometimes

2:42.1

Ten booth welcome to midnight mate

2:45.1

Hello there calling

2:46.1

I'm going to start with a quote actually from the big issue where you said there's something about having an illness when you're a kid that makes life amazing when you get older

2:55.1

And that your life actually gets better as you get healthier

2:58.1

Now most people would go the other way and you live your healthiest time when you're young

3:02.1

But you were on diagnosed 11 disease for most of your life right and until it hit grind zero

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