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MoonShooter
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Glasgow!!! 8th Sept 2005
Okay, so for the first time in 4 years I went to see Jamiroquai play up in the SECC in Glasgow last night, and it was the best concert I've ever seen! I just felt I had to write a small review to remember this awesome night 
The Sony Ericsson sponsership was a pretty big thing, with people wearing white and orange buffaloman t-shirts and handing out buffaloman postcards all over the place. They played parts of the FJLIS and SDISJ videos over the screens in the hall while promoting their phone as well. There was lots of good Jami merchandise, a few Dynamite t-shirts and long sleeved t-shirts, the silver buffalomen keyrings, lithograms of the album covers, bags (which are really nice), and the best of all: the Jamiroquai tracksuit top, made be Slazenger and costing a massive £75!
As mentioned before, the support was coming from El Presidente, a rock band (actually from Scotland) who seemed a slightly odd choice as support. They were pretty good, but the sound quality was terrible and parts of their songs were drowned out by noise and bass. It didn't take long for the crew to set up for Jamiroquai, and 15 minutes later the band came on stage to a deafening cheer! The setlist was as follows:
Intro: "Theme From Enter The Dragon" by Lalo Schifrin
Canned Heat
Space Cowboy
Cosmic Girl
Revolution 1993
Little L
Seven Days In Sunny June
Love Blind
Use The Force
Love Foolosophy
Time Won't Wait
Black Capricorn Day
Dynamite
(Don't) Give Hate A Chance
Virtual Insanity
Alright
Deeper Underground (encore)
No Starchild, FJLIS or BDC...and I'm not 100% sure of the order.
 At the start of the concert Jay announced he was gonna play "some songs from the new album" (cheers), "and some of the old songs, the classics!" (huge cheers!)
When Jay announced Little L, it sounded like he said "A f**k oddessy"
Love Blind really wasn't very good in my opinion. The quiet bits were too loud and the chorus was indistiguishable from the original. It didn't seem to go down very well, which was the only time I felt that during the night.
Jay was happy to be back in Scotland and said he was going to stay here tonight 
At one point Jay said he should take the front few rows around Europe to act as the permanent front row!
When Jay intorduced the band, he said "without them there would be no Jamiroquai". Aww...
When Derrick was introduced, Jay made sure to point out that his ancestors were Scottish and got him to show off his kilt. Needless to say he got the biggest cheer of the bandmembers!
Before Black Capricorn Day, Jay said "I've had a few of these" (I thought they were about to play High Times) and said he was confused how it got released in the first place. He also said the video was filmed in Scotland.
Before Virtual Insanity, Jay said he was going to play another old song, and also said that the ones they'd played were the only ones he can remember!
The crowd went CRAZY during Virtual Insanity, and this lasted until the end of the concert 
The band appeared to play part of Main Vein at one point, before moving off into the next song.
The most important thing of all was how focused Jay was of putting on the best show he possibly could. Last time he was over here in 2001 he was constantly smoking and swearing between songs, wheras this time he did neither and was much more enjoyable and comfortable to watch. Now that he's stopped drugs and cut down on alcohol, the results really are noticible. And his voice, WONDERFUL! The rest of the band were really tight as well, and were working together better than last time when they were all at opposite ends of the stage to one another.
OVERALL: The best concert ever!
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CosmicMouse
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| Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 20:02 |
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Thanks, Moonshooter!!! 
Great review!! Nice that you wrote down Jay's comments!!
I especially like this one:
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| When Jay intorduced the band, he said "without them there would be no Jamiroquai". Aww... |
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jamirokaki
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| Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 20:05 |
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great review! thanks
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Give Hate A Chance
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| Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 20:34 |
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thats mad, no starchild, BDC or FJLIS, and only 1 day from playing them so excellently, i would of thought he would have dropped love blind for one of them as it was a bit dodgy,
some of the comments i rember him saying along the same lines, but i was that much in a dase dancing and singing like i said in my review can not remember!!!!!!
Thanks, interesting to see other reviews
Andy
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monisum
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| Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2005 13:24 |
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Thanks for the great review Moonshooter
When I saw the review in the Herald I was shocked to read that the Glasgow concert was only half filled? Was that true?
Anyway seem to have been a great evening for you and the crowd
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LLCoolJR
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| Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2005 16:30 |
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Re: Glasgow!!! 8th Sept 2005
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And his voice, WONDERFUL! The rest of the band were really tight as well, and were working together better than last time when they were all at opposite ends of the stage to one another.
OVERALL: The best concert ever! |
Wow! This is great to hear. And I like the tracklist.
Thanks for the review! |
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Zsoma
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| Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 16:19 |
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Look at the pix at funkin from Glasgow! Those lights kisked me on ass !!! It's a shame they didn't use them on the summer tour...  |
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Butterfly in June
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| Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 11:21 |
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Thanx for this great review Moonshooter!!!! |
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MoonShooter
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| Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 19:17 |
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No problem guys
And monisum, the place was definately more than half full! The side seating was closed off, but I don't think it was intended to be used in the first place. Just another journalist overeaction I guess
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soozee
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| Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 23:43 |
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hey!
i was second row in the SECC after travelling from Ireland to see jamiroquai play! i was wonderin if anyone noticed that at one point jay went to the side of the stage to speak to some guy? He was telling him to give three blonde, slim, young, half-naked girls free aftershow party tickets  i was jealous!! anyone else lucky enough to go to the party?
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