Jamiroquai - £500K (around 1,000,000 US dollars or 635,000 euros)
Half a million to get Jay Kay to sing, but we'd also have to stump up for accommodation, meals and drinks.
Prue Almond of International Talent Booking says: "Five-star for Jay and the band, crew four-star if they were to stay the night.
"As it's the UK, the crew may not need accommodation, but you should look at the worst case scenario.
"You need to look at a suite for Jay and then 18 king bedded singles for the rest of the party.
"Food and drinks won't be too ridiculous, although you would have to provide what is on the rider - normal dressing room food and drinks really."
For the same amount of money you could also have artists including Justin Timberlake or Rihanna. The full article can be found at the Sunday Mirror website.
]]>Meike (from Jamirotalk.net) suggested that Nude Continuum (who feature Jamiroquai's Derrick McKenzie on some of their tracks) enter the competition and out of over 150 entrants it has been announced that the band have won the competition. This means that if you're going to see Jamiroquai perform in Germany in August you'll get to see Nude Continuum, The Brand New Heavies and of course Jamiroquai perform.
Sounds like it will be a great concert...
]]>His time has since been broken (a number of times) and the record (in the car that they now use for the feature) is currently held by Simon Cowell. Well, according to an interview with Andy Wilman (Top Gear producer) on the Top Gear website, Jay is planning to challenge the record this week - in the final episode of the current series.
"Finally, as I write this, Jay Kay is coming down with his sights fixed firmly on Cowell's lap time. In truth, I think he's the only star around at the moment with the speed to knock Cowell off the top, and bugger me is he hungry for it. So, no rain dances from anyone please. Let your gardens wither - we need a dry track on Wednesday."
The weather forecast is so far looking promising and although the show is filmed during the week the result won't be broadcast until Sunday (27 July) from 20:00 on BBC 2.
For information, the current 'celebrity' leaderboard and the previous leaderboard can be viewed at the Top Gear website.
]]>]]>Do you get any celebrities calling you up for business advice?
Oh yeah. Now it's amazing how the floodgates have opened, which is quite eerie and quite odd. One of my closest friends is a guy who I have literally loved his music for 14 years and he's become a very close friend of mine, JK from Jamiroquai. It's quite surreal and he's sitting there with him and he's sort of looking at me saying, 'I love your show and I love what you do and I love your business,' and I'm sitting there thinking, 'You've got the best musical mind in the business.' And you just think, 'Crikey it's incredible.' I need to be pinched sometimes.
Do you actually give JK any business advice?
We have actually talked about a couple of things. I do give him business advice. The only thing I'd like back from him is that I'd like him to teach me to sing and get a hit record out there...
The video can be seen over at YouTube.
]]>Q: How do you write your basslines?
SZ: To be honest with you, I don't think about it - I just do it. Most of the stuff is an accident, it just works out. In Jamiroquai, Jay would come up with some bassline ideas, and I'd further it from there. He's the most amazing songwriter and performer. I saw them without me for the first time about two years ago and it was a bit of a weird one! They were good, but it was different - I guess it's not the essence of what we were.
The full interview can be read via StuartZender.net, and a couple of days ago Stuart posted a message on his MySpace blog where he gives his (honest) opinion on the interview and the rest of the magazine...
]]>UPDATE (15 July 2008): I have been told that Rik Mol will be doing some work with Rob (Harris), Derrick (McKenzie) and Paul (Turner) - and not recording with Jamiroquai. This work (as with other 'side projects' that the bandmembers are involved with) will be done when the band are not working on the new Jamiroquai album, which currently takes priority.
]]>Information about the competition can be found at the Tobit.com website, and more information about the NightClubbing/Festival can be found at nightclubbing.de.
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