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Jamiroquai

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Jamiroquai

Report and Interview by David Bennun, Melody Maker, 1993

AFTER LESS than a year in the recording business, Jason Kay, the man who is Jamiroquai, has developed an understanding with the press. They are ...

Jamiroquai: Town & Country Club, London

Live Review by Push, Melody Maker, 30 January 1993

JAZZ, FOR FUNK'S SAKE! ...

Jamiroquai: Hat's Entertainment!

Interview by Push, Melody Maker, 20 March 1993

Jamiroquai are Jay Kay, basically, a serious 22-year-old west Londoner with serious political ideas, a serious love of funk and a seriously funky voice. PUSH ...

Jamiroquai: Eco-Funk Warrior

Interview by Kodwo Eshun, i-D, May 1993

Jamiroquai's "voice of a generation" songs and ecological statements have made him the figurehead of the new funk scene. But behind the hits is a ...

Jamiroquai: Brixton Academy, London

Live Review by Ian Gittins, Melody Maker, 11 December 1993

THE CAT IN THE HAT ...

Galliano: Sandals Messiahs

Report and Interview by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 28 May 1994

Five years ago GALLIANO was just a sticky Mediterranean drink. Now they're a band on the verge of major success, spearheading the movement that's the ...

Jay Kay, What's Your Problem? Not Being Black?

Interview by Lisa Verrico, Vox, July 1994

JAMIROQUAI'S 24-year-old Jason Kay (aka Jay Kay) was brought up in Ealing, West London, by his jazz-singer mother, Karen Kay. Inspired by the likes of ...

Jamiroquai: Lost In Space

Interview by Andrew Smith, The Face, November 1994

JAY KAY shouldn't really be telling me shit like this. He and his band for — make no mistake, it is his band — have ...

Jamiroquai: Cardiff University, Wales

Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 11 November 1994

Champignon, The (Stevie) Wonder Hoarse ...

Jamiroquai: The Return Of The Space Cowboy

Review by David Sinclair, Q, December 1994

ONLY JAY Kay could come up with as naff a title as The Return Of The Space Cowboy and make it sound about right. A ...

Foxy Brown, Montell Jordan, Jamiroquai et al: Notting Hill Carnival, London

Live Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 7 September 1996

HOW THE WESTWAY WAS WON ...

Jamiroquai: Travelling Without Moving (Soho Square)

Review by David Bennun, Muzik, October 1996

THE SEVENTIES was an age when people lived out their fantasies. Between the clubs of New York and the gay bathhouses of San Francisco, running ...

Jamiroquai: Battersea Power Station, London

Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 16 December 1997

ON THE face of it, Jamiroquai are an unlikely group to excite the passions they do. Singer Jason "Jay" Kay is the only member familiar ...

Jamiroquai: JKNY

Interview by James Hunter, Vibe, August 1999

More than just a Stevie Wonder enthusiast, Jamiroquai's wonder frontman, Jay Kay, knows a little something about fly birds, fast cars, and the bass-booming beats ...

Jamiroquai: A Funk Odyssey

Review by Dan Gennoe, Q, 2001

JAMIROQUAI/JAY KAY has shrugged off many a jibe about his disco-funk devotion – not to mention hats, dancing... But if 16 million album sales haven't ...

Jay Kay: The Esquire Interview

Interview by Dan Gennoe, Esquire, 2001

THERE ARE DOGS and there are dogs. The two German Shepherds growling and baring teeth on the drive of Jay Kay's Buckinghamshire estate, are the ...

Jamiroquai's Jay Kay

Profile and Interview by Dan Gennoe, Time Out Dubai, 2003

THE HEAT IS unbearable. It's not yet midday, and the sky covering the 72 acres that Jamiroquai's double-jointed singer, Jay Kay, calls home is blue ...

Jamiroquai: Jay Kay

Profile and Interview by Dan Gennoe, Notion, June 2005

THERE ARE rock-star houses and then there's Jay Kay's rock-star house. A two hundred year-old, 10 bedroom manor – it was 11 until he knocked ...

Jamiroquai's Automaton

Profile and Interview by Dan Gennoe, Virgin Records, March 2017

IT'S A BEAUTIFUL spring day in a quiet corner of the English countryside. Water gently runs in a stream, birds cheerfully sing in the trees ...

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