With their 18th studio album Yummy scheduled for release in a few months and a UK arena tour on the horizon, indie veterans James are very much a going concern. But there was a point in the early 00s when the Sit Down stars had a little sit down themselves, their members heading off to other things during a half-decade long hiatus. You’ll be thankful they did because if they didn’t, we wouldn’t have the 10/10 anecdote about Christian Bale that follows.
James frontman Tim Booth was always the theatrical centre-piece of the band’s live shows so it made total sense that during the group’s break he went off to try his hand at acting. He got a cracking, if minor, role to get him starting, playing villain Victor Zsasz in the first instalment of Christoper Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy, Batman Begins. In 2021, he told The New Cue how it came about.
