James Walsh

In April 2015, Walsh supported Mike and the Mechanics on their "The Hits" tour.

During June 2011, Walsh supported Simple Minds on their "Greatest Hits Forest Tour".

In 2010 Walsh has worked together with Belgian band Andes on the song "één dag meer" ("One More Day").

In 2009, Walsh began recording his first solo album, working with American songwriter and singer Suzanne Vega, and making his first film collaboration with Powder.

In 2009, he started recording his first solo album, working with American songwriter and singer Suzanne Vega. His first solo EP, Live at the Top of the World was recorded in Tromsø with a chamber orchestra from Norway, and was released in November 2010. He has also contributed to a mini-album Robotic Heart Foundation by Nikolaj Torp Larsson and Andreas Olson, after he met them at a studio when working on a film. Larsson and Olson have continued to work with Walsh on his debut album, which is expected to be released in 2011.

In the middle of 2002, there was a feud between Noel Gallagher of Oasis and Walsh (who was initially musically inspired by the sound of Oasis). Gallagher had called the Starsailor singer a "cock" in an interview for NME magazine; something denied by the accused. However, when Walsh confronted Gallagher at the T in the Park festival in 2002, Gallagher claimed that, if he said it, then it must be true. Noel's brother Liam got involved, allegedly squaring up to Walsh on the same day. In live shows following this, most notably at the 2002 V Festival, the Starsailor frontman announced "it is nice to be good, and good to be nice". Gallagher went on to declare that the incident was "the most fun Walsh has had in his life". The feud was resolved at Glastonbury in 2004.

Walsh has been married to Lisa McNamee since 2003. They have a daughter, Niamh (born 9 August 2002) and a son, Cillian James (born 30 June 2008).

James Milne Walsh (born 10 June 1980 in Wigan) is an English singer, songwriter, guitarist, pianist and frontman of the band, Starsailor.

Eventually he was attracted to artists and bands such as Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Nick Drake, and The Beatles. Walsh was so impressed by the music of Tim Buckley, that he decided to name his own band after the title of Buckley's 1970 album Starsailor. He met fellow band members, James Stelfox and Ben Byrne, when he studied music at the Leigh campus of Wigan and Leigh College in Wigan.