Sola Akingbola and his band "Critical Mass" have been named as finalists in the 8th Annual Independent Music Awards. They are one of five groups listed in the World Fusion category.
More information about the awards, as well as being able to vote for Sola can be found at the The Independent Music Awards website. Jamiroquai percussionist Sola Akingbola has a website at SolaAkingbola.com.
On 22nd November Jay Kay and Sola Akingbola were in Hong Kong to perform for the Dragon-I sixth anniversary party.
Five songs were performed (Jay singing over a backing track), including Cosmic Girl, Love Foolosphy, Little L and Canned Heat.
On Friday night Jamiroquai performed their first concert (as far as I know) in Korea. The band performed at the Olympic Hall in Seoul and the setlist (in no particular order!) was as follows:
If you were there and want to post any reviews or links to photos/videos (there's some videos over at YouTube already), please feel free to add a comment to this news item.
It was recently reported that the band would be performing in Hong Kong later this year although (as we're almost at the end of the year!) no news had appeared. Well, it seems like there isn't an actual concert (thanks to the jamirotalk.net review of one of the recent Audi gigs in Germany), but more an appearance by Jay.
The Dragon-I club in Hong Kong has Jamiroquai listed to perform there on 22 November for their 6th anniversary. I'm guessing they just mean Jay because on the Lifestyle Hong Kong website they say... "Jamiroquai & Danny Rampling. The duo comes to HK to celebrate Dragon-I's 6th birthday." For information, Danny Rampling is a famous dance music DJ.
Jamiroquai.com have uploaded a number of photos from some of the recent Audi promotional 'mini-gigs' in Germany to their Flickr.com account.
Don't forget to check the forum threads at the Jam Party People and Jamirotalk forums for more news, setlists and pictures.
Whilst in Germany performing small gigs as part of a tour to promote the launch of the new Audi Q5 motor car, some interviews with Jay are appearing in the German press.
In an interview published at the Zeit.de website, they print the following:
After the recent news that Jamiroquai would be performing at the Audi Q5 motor car launch party in Germany on 8 November, the band are in Germany now performing at a number of private Audi launch parties.
A full list of dates (from the Audi website - thanks to Jamirotalk.net) is as follows:
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