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Canned Heat on The Voice UK TV show

Although I don't personally watch The Voice UK television show it seems that over 5 million people in the UK do.  On the show broadcast on Sunday evening the contestants in Jessie J's 'team' got together and opened the show with a version of Jamiroquai Canned Heat.  The recording is available to watch online (in the UK at least) until Sunday 20 May using the BBC iPlayer service.

Credit: Sheereen Usman

Does Jay really own 68 cars?

The Top Gear magazine website (UK) has put online a number of photos of a one-off Ferrari that Jay bought last year and plans to show off at a car show later this year.

Together with a number of photos of the car there's a few quotes from Jay, with one of them saying that this is one of "68" cars that he has!

Really?

Credit: David Pryor, Pritesh Mistry

Star Wars does Canned Heat!

Well I never imagined that I would get to see Han Solo from the Star Wars movies dancing to Jamiroquai but it's happened!

In the newly released Kinect Star Wars game for the XBOX 360 console one part of the game is a dancing sequence based on the Dance Dance Revolution game series where as Han Solo you get to dance to Canned Heat - albeit with slightly different lyrics.

There's a video over at the gamesradar website where you can see how the game looks after about 30 seconds or so.

Credit: Dave Harrison

Rock Dust Light Star US release later this month!

Amazon.com are listing a domestic US release of Rock Dust Light Star set for release on 24 April 2012 (er, only 17 months after its original release!)

The label of release is listed as Executive Music Group (I have no idea if/how they are related to Universal Music so feel free to answer in the comments!).

In addition to a physical CD and digital release of the album the Executive Music Group says (in a banner graphic on their site) that a limited edition vinyl release of the album (with different artwork) will come out on 17 April as part of Record Store Day.

Credit: Brent Armstrong

If I Like It I Do It early demo recording online

Over the past few years Nick Van Gelder, who was the original drummer with Jamiroquai has uploaded onto YouTube some classic audio recordings from the very early days of Jamiroquai.

Well, here's another great recording from his collection.  Nick has just uploaded a studio demo recording of If I Like It I Do It onto YouTube.  In his words, "Here's the demo recorded at EMI studio... Music written and played by me... lyrics JK!"

Jamiroquai to perform at Summer Sonic 2012 in Japan

Jamiroquai have been announced by the organisers of the Summer Sonic festival as one of the performers taking part at the event being held in Tokyo and Osaka in Japan on 18 and 19 August 2012.

Credit: Darshan Lovgren

Rock Dust Light Star album producers to talk at songwriting conference

Charlie Russell and Brad Spence, the producers of the Rock Dust Light Star album will be taking part and speaking at the Leeds International Songwriting Conference being held at Leeds College of Music (England) on Friday 9 March.

"Charlie Russell and Brad Spence are Music Producers based in London. Recent productions include albums for Jamiroquai and Lucie Silvas. Between them they have engineered, mixed, written or produced for acts such as Radiohead, Seal, Coldplay, Estelle, Morrisey, Kasabian, Beady Eye, Paul Weller and Laura Marling."

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Recent Site Updates

  • Added one track promo of Blue Skies, one track promo of White Knuckle Ride and five track UK promo and 12 track promo CDR of Rock Dust Light Star to the discography. Also corrected Japanese RDLS tracklisting. - 14 November 2010
  • Added confirmed UK track lengths and catalogue number for UK regular, deluxe and vinyl releases of Rock Dust Light Star to the discography. - 28 October 2010
  • Added details of remix promo CDR of Blue Skies to the discography. - 18 October 2010
  • Added track list for UK Deluxe Edition and Vinyl releases of Rock Dust Light Star to the discography. - 11 October 2010

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  • Jamiroquai's second album, The Return Of The Space Cowboy, was released in the US today in 1994. In 1999, the video for Canned Heat got its first showing on US television.

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