On April 7, 2008, “Fontana” label released “Hey Ma”, the tenth James studio album. It was recorded September – December 2007, at “Château de Warsy” in France, “Hotspur Press” in Manchester, “The Premises” in Hoxton, “Scream” in Brighton, and was produced by Lee Muddy Baker, Tim Booth, Larry Gott, Saul Davies, Mark Hunter, Jim Glennie and Andy Diagram.

Personnel:

• Tim Booth – lead vocals, art direction
• Larry Gott – electric, acoustic, slide and e-bow guitars, additional backing vocals, art direction 
• Saul Davies – electric, acoustic and baritone guitars, violin, additional drums, art direction
• Mark Hunter – keyboards, programming, art direction
• Jim Glennie – bass guitars, art direction
• David Baynton-Power – drums, percussion, art direction
• Andy Diagram – trumpet, flugelhorn, additional backing vocals 
• KK – programming
• Lee Muddy Baker – additional drums, percussion, acoustic and electric guitar, additional backing vocals
• Rob Kenny – drums
• Ben Caro – engineer
• KK – vocal engineer
• Danton Supple – mixing
• Jonathon Shakhovskay – mixing 
• Lee Muddy Baker – mixing 
• Chris Potter – mastering
• Love – artwork original concept
• Antony Crook – photography
• Julian Ward – Warsky photography

Track listing:

All lyric by Tim Booth, all music by Tim Booth, Larry Gott and Jim Glennie.

1. Bubbles
2. Hey Ma
3. Waterfall
4. Oh My Heart
5. Boom Boom
6. Semaphore
7. Upside
8. Whiteboy
9. 72
10. Of Monsters & Heroes & Men
11. I Wanna Go Home