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.
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]]>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!).
If you've heard White Knuckle Ride on the radio then feel free to tell other fans where the track is being played.
]]>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...
]]>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.
]]>For details of tickets, which go on sale from 30 August please see the Q website.
According to my records the band last performed at the Forum in November 1996 (eek, 14 years ago!). The band played there two nights back to back and I remember buying tickets for the first night and then winning tickets on the radio for the second night. Good times...
]]>According to avo.ch Jamiroquai are set to perform on Friday 22 October alongside Roy Ayers. Tickets go on sale on 1 September.
This date has not yet been confirmed/listed by jamiroquai.com but this is normally the case with festival-type concerts - the event promoter will announce the date first and then jamiroquai.com will later list the gig on its website.
From this I'd strongly suggest that there's plenty more dates to be announced over the coming days and weeks...
]]>In addition to the text, there's some new pictures being used (see here, and here). We also now know of two more tracks that are (as good as) confirmed to be on the album - I've Been Hurtin' and Goodbye To My Dancer.
Feel free to post links to international translations of the text for our international readers. To get you started, here's Portuguese and German.
]]>With five days separating this gig and the previously announced date in Brazil I would expect to see some more dates being announced soon.
UPDATE (27 Aug): The Jamiroquai Facbook page has removed the original announcement and put a new one online that says the gig is part of the "Nem Catacoa Festiva" (and not Festival Movistar). The date remains the same.
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It was expected that the song would be 'released' or at least heard properly any day now after news such as this from auspOp that said the track would be released to the media this week. Thanks to a post over at jamirotalk.net someone spotted that mega-media.nl has as of today (Monday) got a full length version of the track available to purchase and download as an MP3 file.
If it's on one online store then I'm sure it will either be on many more stores in the coming days or taken down if it wasn't meant to be put online! This could be similar to a few years ago when Feels Just Like It Should was accidentally put online at one of the download stores a few days before it was meant to be on sale.
We'll just have to wait and see...
UPDATE: You can find it on Amazon.fr as well now (thanks to Daniel in the comments). Check your local official music download shop and if it is not there then it probably will be soon.
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