As part of the promotion for White Knuckle Ride and Rock Dust Light Star the official Jamiroquai YouTube channel has posted a great montage video. Showing clips from recent gigs, fans, the band recording in the studio, Jay having fun etc. etc.
Head over to YouTube and watch the video now. You will not be disappointed, although you may be envious of the fun that they seem to be having!
Nick Van Gelder, who was the original drummer with Jamiroquai has uploaded onto YouTube three audio clips taken from a rehearsal session in 1993.
Funky Seven and Friends are tracks that were never released and Music Of The Mind shows a version of the track in development before the final 'cut' that made it onto the Emergency On Planet Earth album. You can find out more about Nick via his MySpace page.Jay was this morning in London at the BBC Radio 1 studios for a live on-air chat as part of the breakfast show.
Talking about the album he said there were about 19 tracks 'in the bag', with 12 selected for the album, and 13 for the Japanese album release (there's always an extra track on Japanese releases).Regarding Rock Dust Light Star he said that for some of the tracks on the album the band got some ideas from the Rolling Stones, Roxy Music and David Bowie. He also described the album as "Less disco, more rock...in it's own little way." When asked by a listener who sent in an SMS text message, Jay said "We have not lost the funk." Another track name was revealed - entitled 'Never Gonna Be Another.'
A world tour is being planned for next year, starting with the UK. Radio 1 also played White Knuckle Ride, which was introduced as a "first play on BBC Radio 1." The track was originally written about two years ago (at least the concept of the track), and has slowly been developed over time. Outside of the UK the track doing pretty well in other countries at the moment, for example in the Netherlands where it is currently number 12 in the iTunes chart.
Confirming the recent news of the video shoot for WKR being complete, Jay said that the video is the most awesome thing he's done. Jay said "If you like the track, then you'll love the video."
The BBC Radio 1 breakfast show can be replayed for one week using the BBC 'Listen Again' service. Jay was on air about from around 1 hour 55 minutes into the show.
In May 2005 the BBC Radio 1 breakfast show was broadcast from Jay's house in Buckinghamshire, England. Well, on Wednesday next week (1 September) Jay is returning the favour and popping into the BBC Radio 1 studios to catch up with DJ Chris Moyles.
Jamiroquai.com, which announced the news wrote..
The show is broadcast on BBC Radio 1 in the UK from 6:30am, so set your alarms nice and early (although he'll probably be on air about 8-ish!).
3FM radio in the Netherlands has chosen White Knuckle Ride as their 'Mega Hit' for the coming week. This means that the track will be played at least every hour on the national radio station.
If you've heard White Knuckle Ride on the radio then feel free to tell other fans where the track is being played.
Monarchy, one of the artists who have remixed White Knuckle Ride have posted a link on their official Twitter feed to a website where you can listen to their remix of White Knuckle Ride.
The legality of all of the links and downloads of the track that are all over the net right now is really confusing. If the track is officially available in France on download stores why are they still selling it if other countries are not? Perhaps the 'real' promotional effort will take place nearer the album release with the single Blue Skies, or maybe this 'leak' was all part of the master plan by Universal to get people talking...
Hopefully things will be come clear and we'll get official news of the vinyl and digital download details soon.
I pondered over posting the above link but with Monarchy and Jamiroquai on the same record label and with their official Twitter feed linking to the post then I guess its not a problem...
According to the El Almeria website (Spain, English translation), Jay has recently completed filming the promo music videos for White Knuckle Ride and Blue Skies. The news item says that Jay spent four days in Almeria in Southern Spain shooting the videos.
The videos, directed by Howard Greenhalgh features Jay flying a helicopter in some of the action scenes. A classic Porsche is also apparently used in one (or maybe both?) of the promos.
Almeria was used as the setting for the Cosmic Girl video back in 1996.
White Knuckle Ride, although already available on some download stores (in France) will be released as a limited edition vinyl and also digital download. The 'official' release date is not yet known.
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