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scam
Joined: 26 Jul 2003
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Location: Finland
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I translated two Pori Jazz gig reviews. One is from Ilta-Sanomat and the other is from Satakunnan Kansa. There may be some grammar errors. There are also some words and expressions that I couldn't translate, finnish is quite difficult language.  I still have one review from Iltalehti to translate, so stay tuned. 8)
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Pori Jazz' rejuvenation operation was succesful:
JAMIROQUAI'S PARTY
British band Jamiroquai dragged 24000 people to Kirjurinluoto in saturday
What a party! 24000 people were in the heat of the sun in the saturday evening when Jamiroquai played at the Pori Jazz main stage.
Earlier in the day frontman Jay Kay made many people unhappy because he didn't give any interviews. The rules considering photographs were also so tight that it wasn't unclear to anyone which band was the weekend's biggest.
The fans instead got what they deserved: the speed daemon of funk squeezed everything out from the dancing audience with his bag of hits. Tunes like Cosmic Girl, Virtual Insanity(*) and Travelling Without Moving were just right to summer evening at Pori.
HANNA-MARI JUVONEN
(* As you all know, writer has made a mistake here. The band didn't play VI. -scam)
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BETTER THAN BECKHAM
Jamiroquai's Jay Kay can kick with his left foot, too.
Being a jazzcritic in a jazzfestival isn't always easy.
For the saturday night fever I planned bulletproof plan. It was based on taking a standingplace at the front of the stage by going through the press area. Surprisingly the enemy, Jamiroquai's managers, had denied all kind of movement from press area to the front of stage.
That's why I found myself surrounded in the meat ocean, between wood benches and twentysomething girls with navelshirts or bikinis who danced on them. I also got stuck in traffic jams in the nonexistent passageways. The views to the screen were from arse.
As an experienced visitor in Kirjurinluoto I was able to find my way. After sweaty fifteen minutes I finally squeezed myself behind the mixing table where I could watch the screen behind the Windows-screen, auto-control system and the mixers head. Mixer was brushing the table with paintbrush and was offering sweets to girls.
Jamiroquai can afford sweets. Band had flewn to Pori with two own charters and every instrument had an own engineer and probably assistant engineer as well.
ELASTIC PLAYING
From my own dancing square I finally reached a conclusion that jogging-suited Jason Kay is better than Real's jogging-suited David Beckham.
They have a lot in common. Both are ex-Manchester and both of them are paid in the trading market so big amounts of money that a common man has hard time to understand it as much as it's hard time to understand the price of United States' budget deficit or the price of a waterbottle bought in Pori. Both of them belong to Britain jetset and are guides to world's fashiontrends. They also look the same.
Jay Kay is better because he can kick also with his left foot. In Kirjurinluoto's sport event he made more unbelievable moves with his body than the whole five-man band with their instruments.
Jamiroquai's playing was infitinely elastic, leading and airy. When the sounds were also clean the rubber-fingered bassist Nick Fyffe and springwristed drummer Derrick McKenzie had two hours of time to lead London United to musical dream victory. And that's what they did. Jamiroquai was swinging like a buffalo until the end.
ALSO EARLY HISTORY
Everything was dominated by good-mooded Ferrari-driver Jay Kay.
As a hard-working speaker he boasted that he was keen on speed and thought that people in the land of Tommi and Juha would appreciate it. He also advertised himself as a well-behaving boy who lies only when he's in Finland. Occasionally he aired his washboard stomach on the stage's cool-air fan.
Songs were played from all Jamiroquai's albums. Some findings had been made from bands early history and the hits Cosmic Girl and Little L were heard right at the beginning.
I tried to practise Little L's difficult-timed clapping when I was in car on my way back to downtown. I didn't learn it, but thousands of girls with their navelshirts or bikinis were able to do it. Clap-clap.
ILARI TAPIO |
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CosmicMouse
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| Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2003 17:25 |
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Wow, thank you very much scam!!! 
I will read the reviews when the kids are sleeping. ...
(I am a very busy CosmicMum right now) ;)
Oh, and welcome to jamirotalk!  Nice to have a finnish fan aboard!
Ooops...I am off... baby is crying
cu later...
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:!: Have a look at some photos of Mika and Marlin here:
http://www.jamirotalk.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=751
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Ms.P
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| Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2003 14:30 |
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:)
Thanks Scam,
I've got the copy of Ilta-Sanomat - picked it up from the plane on the way home - but I didn't understand a word of it! Now i know .
Great concert wasn't it?!
I liked the last journalist's item - that person seemed to be commenting more on the "girls in bikinis"! |
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scam
Joined: 26 Jul 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2003 19:19 |
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CosmicMouse & Ms.P: Thanks for the warm welcome! This board feels already like home. 
Ms.P: The concert was absolutely fantastic - definitely the high-point of my summer. Surprisingly the Finnish press tend to agree, which I find quite strange. But I think that at least Soundi (the biggest music magazine in Finland) won't let me down: It probably says that the gig was a piece of crap.
Soundi hasn't ever really liked Jamiroquai but let's see what happens. New issue is coming to stores in the beginning of august. So this thread doesn't fade away in a long time if it depends on me. :D
I'll post new reviews if I get my hands on them. And that Iltalehti-thing is still on it's way... |
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Ms.P
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| Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2003 21:43 |
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:)
Scam - have you found any sites with press photos of Jamiroquai and the crowd yet?
There's some good photos coming from Stimmen - wondered if there's anything similar for Pori. |
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mrsmoon
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| Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2003 19:10 |
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Pori
@ ms P.
 what a great report.... thanks.... lol
and i thought i´m the only not anymore teenage woman going crazy seeing jay!
oh you lucky girl..your first live concert and meeting the band aaaaarrrggghhhhh........ i´m a little bit jealous 
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Ms.P
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| Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2003 16:47 |
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Mrs Moon
Mrs Moon,
Yep - you're not the only "oldie"!
It was amazing - age doesn't matter with Jamiroquai does it? We'll all still be funkin when we're 80 .
Regards to Mr Moon btw! |
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JamiroFan2000
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Location: The Jamiroquaized States Of America
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| Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2003 19:57 |
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Great reports MsP & Scam!!!
(Slowly hobbles into JamiroTalk.net on a walker with Buffaloman tassles on the handlebars, takes out a bottle of experimental anti-aging serum, drinks the lot and turns back into a 26 old Jamiroquai fan and ) LOL
 Hello everyone, :bm_b:
 Great reports MsP & Scam , such great detail and Scam, those press pictures in your report are AWESOME! I have never seen JK flex before, kind of a goofy look on his face while he poses, but I honestly don't know what muscles he's flexing ! Anyhoo, again, great job Cosmic Girls & Buffalo Men! Take care all and Peace!
Sincerely,
JamiroFan2000 |
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Ms.P
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| Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2003 20:00 |
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hahahahaha - you nutter!
Thanks Jamirofan, i'm still flying high after Pori - I really had the time of my life (maybe that doesn't say much about the quality of my life to date??!).
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Ms.P
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| Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2003 20:02 |
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oh and..
Jay Kay really did jump around loads and was full of energy - he went missing off stage twice though!
Someone said that in the first concert (was Brescia?) Jay didn't dance or speak much - he certainly made up for it in Pori .
He also told us not to pick flowers - to leave them in the ground. |
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buffel
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| Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2003 20:42 |
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Doesn´t Jay have a really big belly navel on the picture? |
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missiroquai
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Location: Jamiland, Planet Home (ON, Canada)
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| Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2003 21:33 |
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Yes...I was thinking that too...  |
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scam
Joined: 26 Jul 2003
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| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 18:29 |
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I promised and so here it is: the gig review from Iltalehti. I'm struggling with a crappy modem connection and my summerjob is draining all my life energy so I don't visit here in the forum so often as I'd like to... Enough talk already, let's get on with the business.
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FLYBOY!
VIA ROOF TO THE STAGE
Jamiroquai was expected. In Kirjurinluoto estimately 24000 people packed tightly leaning forward and rise up to benches so eagerly that after the gig had started there was really difficult to see anything. Over 30 years old but still cheerishly boyish vocalist star Jay Kay came to stage by climbing on the roof structures.
Depending on the view Jamiroquai's set was either smoothly convincing or time to time routinely numb. Athmosphere was on the roof even when long groove pieces were played. The band focused mostly on its newer works. Canned Heat, Cosmic Girl, Travelling Without Moving and Deeper Underground were the cream of the crop. It's sad that nothing remarkable was heard from the band's first and the best record.
ENERGETIC BRITDEVIL
Jay Kay who formerly was known as enviromentalist had lack of definition when he spoke about importance of living one's life with it's full potential or when he made scientific notes about the positions of the moon. Real genuiness was heard when he wondered the midnight sun and the beautiful people who were enjoying it.
Absolutely best part of the gig was indianjoggingsuit-clothed Jay Kay's dance moves and jumps. Man's choreography is like Michael Jackson combined to John Travolta with levitation bubbles. The energy of the hurricane-like moving britdevil was again so enormous that audience had no troubles to find own inspiration from Jay Kays moves.
In all the saturday concert at Kirjurinluoto had a good aftertaste and the festival showed once again its ability of revival and its potency to keep on going as a happening of the young people as well.
JUUSO RÄSÄNEN |
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Butterfly in June
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| Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 13:13 |
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Great articles scam!! Thanx a lot for that  It really seems that the Finnish press loved Jamiroquai and Jay - but to compare him with Beckham  I can't find any likeness between these two persons (exept they are both English and stars) Beckham seems to me like a real Dandy and I don't think that Jay is one... 
Jan, I just looked at that picture of you and Jay at your site and I wonder who that woman is that stands right behind Jay. She really looks pissed - is she his personal assistent ? 
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scam
Joined: 26 Jul 2003
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| Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2003 20:29 |
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| Great articles scam!! Thanx a lot for that It really seems that the Finnish press loved Jamiroquai and Jay |
I wouldn't exactly say so... I bought magazines called Soundi and Rumba a couple of days ago. They are two biggest music magazines in Finland.
I knew that Soundi doesn't like Jamiroquai very much but a bad gig review is better than no gig review at all. Guess what - it calmly ignored Jamiroquai's gig! I know that Soundi had reporters in Pori because there was review of Roots' concert (which was in Pori's Kirjurinluoto a day after Jamiroquai).
Rumba had a little review of the whole Pori Jazz (no pictures). And much of it was praising the Roots. According the article Jamiroquai funked 20000 girls easily but was nothing compared to Roots. And finally the reporter told that after gig Jay was seen in disco called NiteTrain which is the biggest teenager-hellhole in Pori and hoped that someone would've punched Jay there.
Finnish music mags are really worthless piece of... *sigh* You know what I mean. |
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