A funny story about Batman loving James' album 'Laid'

"It was really fun to play and to be in a really great Batman movie. And to be a villain! I put a hallucinogenic in Gotham City’s water supply. I had my own trial. I was in mental asylum, I tried to murder and probably rape Katie Holmes, I got clobbered by Batman. What more can you ask!" - James' Tim Booth says in The New Cue interview about his Batman role. There's also a funny anecdote: "One of my funniest moments from that is I'd go into makeup for hours every day where they put scars on me for two hours. On about the sixth day I'm sitting in a makeup chair and Batman's in there in his regalia. Christian Bale stays in character on set the whole time. He's sitting there in his full Batman outfit, doesn’t say anything to me. Then he finishes his makeup and gets up and he goes and stands behind me and in the Batman voice he says, 'Are you Tim?' 'Yeah…' And he goes, 'From the band James?' 'Yeah…' ''Laid' saved my life. I love that fucking album'. He walked out and I'm sitting there going, ‘Holy shit, Batman likes our album!’ It was one of the funniest and loveliest moments because he stayed in character. When he was in casuals he was Bruce Wayne, which I didn't realise. I had great conversations with him. I hung out with him quite a bit on set. I thought, ‘What a nice man.’ And then later I realised that he was hanging out with me as Bruce Wayne, which was really quite a mind fuck". James release their new album 'All The Colours of You' on June 4.