Cuttings

NME   NEW ORDER THE WAKE JAMES Brixton Academy FOR GRAND Master Flunkers of a less-than-Arfur Baker-ed funk, New Order have received more than a fair share of sycophantic press coverage in their three year history. While their monotonous guitar breaks rang around the country to cries of "Spectacular!", their superficial spirit sat twiddling its thumbs in boredom. Tonight New Order were spectacularly boring.   Thank God then for James, a Factory band with the sort of talent that most headliners would struggle to find in a month of blue Mondays. If regulation guitar, drums. bass and vocals are back in style then add to your list of potential hit-makers this magnificent four-piece band.   Beginning a well constructed, well received set with the patting of a cow-bell in 'Hymn Of A Village',  James build their sound around flurries of cascading vocals tacked on to the janglings of a post-Postcard guitar. Skipping from a chugging, almost Latin beat in '...