The first album ‘Elysian Fields’ was realised in 2001 this included such notable songs as ‘Free as a Bird’, ‘Close to You’ and ‘Mona Lisa’. This album, currently available on iTunes and Amazon is distributed by Pinnacle. In September 2004 the NME said “Move over Diamond and piss off Van Morrison – it’s Jim Laslett”. Jim’s first album ‘Elysian Fields’ was Tower Records ‘Album of the Month’ in October 2004. In 2005 Jim released his second album ‘Loving should be easy’ which has ten tracks including ‘Eleanor Jane’ and ‘These are the days’. Other artistes playing on this album with Jim are Geoffrey Richardson, Tim Edey and Phil Laslett.