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PostPosted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 23:00    Reply with quote

Little H's - GIG VIDS (Dublin Sept 05)
This concert was infinately better than Birmingham. I did a much better job with the camera too you will be pleased to see. Here's the whole load:

http://rapidshare.de/files/14692996/DUBB05_1.ASF.html

http://rapidshare.de/files/14694181/Dublin_01_TROTSC_-_the_ending_cueing_out_the_final_notes.ASF.html

http://rapidshare.de/files/14699648/Dublin_02_CG_twirling_gesturing_to_Rob.ASF.html

http://rapidshare.de/files/14699960/Dublin_03_CG_Chorus.ASF.html

http://rapidshare.de/files/14701614/Dublin_04_Revolution_Change_Change_Change_Yeah.ASF.html

http://rapidshare.de/files/14705726/Dublin_05_Revolution_-_dancing_and_drum_mimicking.ASF.html

http://rapidshare.de/files/14706402/Dublin_06_Little_L.ASF.html

http://rapidshare.de/files/14719852/Dublin_07_BDC_talking_joking_intro.ASF

http://rapidshare.de/files/14720243/Dublin_08_BDC_dancing_and_bouncing.ASF

http://rapidshare.de/files/14720662/Dublin_09_Love_Blind-UTF_end_with_robotic_dancing_merging_to_next_file.ASF

http://rapidshare.de/files/14721276/Dublin_11_UTF_mid_section_with_dancing_and_posing.ASF

http://rapidshare.de/files/14722168/Dublin_12_UTF_singing___shuffling_dancing.ASF

http://rapidshare.de/files/14758268/Dublin_13_UTF_singing___strutting.ASF

http://rapidshare.de/files/14760476/Dublin_14_LF_I_don_t_want_the_world_I_want_you___dancing.ASF

http://rapidshare.de/files/14762553/Dublin_15_LF_Rob_intro___flag_in_corner.ASF

http://rapidshare.de/files/14764490/Dublin_16_LF_Derrick_intro___dancing.ASF

http://rapidshare.de/files/14766038/Dublin_17_TWW_Every_second_screams.ASF

http://rapidshare.de/files/14770791/Dublin_18_TWW_Chorus___Keeps_On.ASF

http://rapidshare.de/files/14781787/Dublin_19_TWW_Matt_jam___running-style_dancing.ASF

http://rapidshare.de/files/14782066/Dublin_20_VI___The_Pink_Umbrella.ASF

http://rapidshare.de/files/14783704/Dublin_21_DU_end___flag_-_thanking_these_fantastic_musicians.ASF


Some of these are brilliant excerpts (if I say so myself) and some a short clippets that I couldn't leave out. Enjoy !!!
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Thank you very much, Little H. That's great Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy
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The Black Devil Car talking and joking video is one of the best ones here.

'Sir' JK introduces BDC with a story and jokes about his behaviour.

And in the last vid DU end flag, 'Sir' JK recognizes the band's excellent effort, and you can see tied around his waist the Irish Flag that I wrote Jam Party People on and threw it onto the stage. Rob picked it up and gave it to 'Sir' JK. He came back on stage paraded it and then tied it around his waist for the finale of DU !!!

The other's are well worth a view too.
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hehehe...but jay is saying the same jokes about his behavior sonce AFO tour!
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Thanks so much for sharing these video clips Wink Very Happy

and for the immense work of uploading all that files.. Wink
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THE DUBLIN REPORT
My Dynamite Odyssey For The Dublin Jamiroquai Gig On Thursday September 15th, 2005
by
Al-Jauhara Al-Mohammed aka Little H (Jam Party People & Funkin.com) / Little H – KSA (jamirotalk.net)



WEDNESDAY

The trip to Dublin began on Wednesday. Firstly I took my children, Maye 18, Abd Al-Azeez 14, Hussa 10 and El-Anoud horse riding in the early afternoon. It was to be their last opportunity before we returned to Saudi Arabia. The stables that we frequented were about 1hr. 15mins drive northwest of my parents' home. It was a beautiful drive following Lough Swilley out to the Atlantic Ocean on the Donegal coastline. The tide was out and we rode our horses out onto the sprawling beach and over the dunes. The wildlife around us was busy, with birds and rabbits twitting and twitching everywhere. The little girls wanted to canter and so I led them for several short canters. After the ride, we drove straight home to unload the two little girls and pick up our already packed bags to set off for Dublin.

It was my first time to drive from the far northwest of Ireland to Dublin City. I checked my maps of course, I love maps, and did my usual thing of marking down the names of the important towns on the route, where I would be changing direction and roads at on a very small piece of paper, then I slip into the (never used) ash tray, so as that I can easily access it on the way. When I did this on the way to Birmingham I had a lovely surprise, my father who knows my driving plan, put GBP 100 in the ash tray – I discovered it en-route to Birmingham, good 'ole Dad !!! He did the same again this time but times six !!! He's a man that understands and gives all he can to the Jamiroquai missions!!!

I left the little girls with my parents, kissing them goodbye quickly and telling them to obey Grandma and Grandpa and be polite and make their beds, and hang up their clothes. Dad stepped in to distract them by telling them to hurry up and get ready to go swimming, making the separation totally painless for my littlest daughter. With our goodbyes over and done with we set off for Dublin with Jamiroquai's Essential Studio Tracks in the CD player, which is ironically the bootleg for he AFO Hamburg Gig 2001. I wanted to acquaint myself better with the live versions of CH, CG and DU. I also brought with me EOPE to educate myself with Revolution 1993. This used to be the prime skip track for me on EOPE, despite Jamirokaki's advice to listen to it more I hadn't realized how spectacular it was until I heard it live at this year's gigs.

Dublin was going to be the third gig for my son and I, the second for my daughter, and another one that my husband was along for the ride for. The weather was beautiful, bright cloudless skies, and no traffic problems and the route was very well marked from early on, I could have driven there blindfolded. We drove the 180 miles with a few pit stops, and arrived in Dublin at around 20:30 hrs. and sailed through the traffic heading towards the city. I am a natural city driver, I can't get lost – that's a couple of the good things that I inherited from my father are his sense of direction and driving skills.

As we came in through the north of Dublin, we saw a building ablaze. The fire brigade had just arrived and spectators were hurriedly ushering them around to the point where the blaze was. A little further down the road AA yelped 'there it is, there it is !!!' He was pointing at Dynamite Gig poster for the Dublin venue. Good boy, well trained, he spotted it without having being told to keep an eye out for it. 'Right,' I said, ' we'll have our pictures taken with that later, maybe we will run into some more around town.' And we eventually did.

We checked into our hotel and found the area to be very busy, cosmopolitan and culturally varied. We laughed at grocer's stores with advertisements in Arabic, and found ourselves surrounded by every race, except the Irish. We had a Chinese take away for dinner and slept soundly.


THURSDAY

Dublin – Around and About Town
I was up at 07:30 hrs to literally manouvre around a parking restrictions loophole. There was an excellent Italian café across the road from our hotel that served Eggs Benedict, so my husband and I noshed first, and then Maye and AA woke up much later and joined us for breakfast there.
At 10:30 hrs I had everyone in the car and we were heading off back into central Dublin to scout the gig venue. We found the place way out at the most easterly point in the City, and there sat the Point Theatre at the point where the River Liffey reaches the commercial port area. It had been drizzling all morning, and the weather showed no signs of clearing up, it was a grey, grey drizzling day.

I chatted with the car park attendants at the Point, and had a walk around the outside of the theatre. I could see the equipment lorries lined up, there wasn't a soul in sight. I took some photographs and jumped back in the car. We drove back into town to take in some of the sights. At 13:15 hrs a local radio station played Little L. When we heard it I had to pull over to take in the full details of what the DJ was saying about the gig for that night. We slipped into a convenient lay-by, and did 'the complicated hand-claps' (courtesy of beat-illiterate journalist who wrote a review for the Clapham Gig). I also texted Mr. David Rowe to give him the news of what we had seen and done in Dubin so far.

Then we drove back to the Point again, to check on the queuing status. Again, there wasn't a soul in sight, it was rainy, misty, damp afternoon. We swung around in the car park, waved to the attendants sitting in their hut at the gateway and went to the hotel nearest to the Point. My husband and AA ate, Maye looked at a salad, and I was too excited to do anything except pay the bill.

Then an idea came to mind. I thought about the Irish flag and how it would be a good idea to throw one to 'Sir' JK to help him with his 'hallo Dublin' line. I knew the exact shop where I would get the best choice of tourist paraphernalia, Maye and I visited it two years earlier when we were in Dublin for EMINEM's gig in 2003. BTW, my trip to mainland UK was initially to do Jamiroquai in Birmingham and then EMINEM in Milton Keynes two days later. But the drugs and the high-times got the better of him, and it seems like he won't be around for quite some time, get well soon Marshall.

I found a huge flag and was content with that being the only gig prop that I needed. Maye picked up a few souvenirs for her friends and then we sprinted back to the car. I had parked the car as close as I could to the shop, it was right by the China Town of Dublin, and guess what was beaming funky Dynamite vibes on the shoppers there – a poster !!! I clocked it, and said to Maye, we don't have time now to photograph it, we'll do it tomorrow. I was frantically looking for a shop that would sell an big thick fibre marker, and at last I found a supermarket and the right pen. Time was ticking away, and we had to go back to the hotel to change into our gig-attire.

PANIC – traffic was in gridlock. PANIC – it was getting on for 17:00 hrs and we weren't anywhere near the hotel yet. PANIC. I tried to keep my cool, I couldn't speak. The thought of people gathering at the door was making my stomach turn, at this stage I was doubly glad that I hadn't had anything to eat or drink since breakfast.

In sheer silence, everyone dashed to their rooms. Maye and AA were changed and down in a flash. Mohammed was watching me fumbling about with flag, laying it out on the floor and he was wondering what I was going to do with the pen. I started to measure out the wording, and then wrote as best as I could whilst shaking like a leaf JAM PARTY PEOPLE. I wrote it lightly first, putting each word on top of the other on the centre third white part of the Republic of Ireland's 'tricolour'. After I had gone over the letters for the second time, I had a horrid thought. What if the ink had gone through the flag and onto the carpet ??? I am sure that would have been a unique piece of graffiti embellished on the floor of our room !!! Luckily, it didn't penetrate the flag and spoil the carpet. I rolled the flag up with the inked part inner-most, and put it down the back of my jeans.

As soon as I had finished the flag, without a word we all moved downstairs out to the car with an eerie silence. Maye and AA knew how tense I was because of my silence, my mouth was dry and my husband gave me the I told you so routine, about wasting time going to buy the flag, I ignored him – my mind was at The Point.

The Point Theatre – Gig Venue
We arrived at the Point at 18:30 hrs. I was frantic.
There were hardly any people there. I was able to park the car in the spot closest to the entrance. I was horrified that the place was so calm. I left Mohammed to find his own way to where ever he was going to entertain himself for the evening, he had the address of the hotel and was glad that I didn't burst into tears or worse if there had been queues all over the place.
We were in like a shot, and honed straight for the front barrier. People were milling about in the foyer area and there was only a handful of people in the seated sections. The standing area wasn't hardly three rows deep, people were sitting and standing loosely around that area. My greatest fear had been quelled, the front barrier was still a possibility, it just needed a little tact to reach it without offending the already present concert-goers.

We stood back in the centre of the crowd to begin with, I eyed a place where I could shuffle AA to the front. The three of us wearing our www.funkin.com shirts moved in on our target.
There were these three people, two girls and a guy, laughing and enjoying themselves. So I struck up conversation with them. They were Aurora, a pastry chef working in Dublin, her friend Marie – who had come from France for a week to visit her, and Romain – who worked with a computer hardware giant in Dublin.

What can I say, these people were so fresh and happy and friendly. That's it, we were the focal point of the crowd now as the six of us laughed and gaggled. They were fans of course, but they had a lot of questions about Jamiroquai, and gratefully they asked questions that I was able to answer. As I began to divulge details of the band and information about Dynamite and previous gigs, we earned a ring of eavesdroppers, who started to introduce themselves to us.

I snuggled AA on the barrier and next to him was a guy on his own. I said hallo and was delighted to find out that he was a student nurse from Russia studying in Dublin. His name was Dmitry, and we had a serious conversation about preventable diseases and the standards of nursing in Eastern Europe and South East Asia. Nurse's Advocacy and Nursing Recruitment is one of my interests in my volunteer work.

Meanwhile, Maye is flashing her pictures of her meeting with 'Sir' JK outside the entrance to the Birmingham Gig to the people around her. You could hear groups of people repeatedly saying, 'Oh, really, go on then show us . . . OMG – look at this !!!'. It was even more awe striking at Birmingham because she had a bright orange T-Shirt on, and of course in the pictures she had the same shirt and it was obvious that the photos were taken only a few hours earlier.

Then I saw another bloke who looked to be on his own. I introduced myself, I didn't want anyone to feel alone at such a magnificent moment. I was delighted that he was an Irishman, the only one that I met at the gig. He had come up from Limerick, which is way down south west, nearly as far as the distance that we had traveled. It was no less than our very own Carl.

El-Presidente were up. The lead singer was wearing a shamrock green three piece suit. At Birmingham he wore a red three piece. The keyboardist was wearing the same outfit of black shirt and elasticated trousers with a white corset over the top. She didn't have her hair done as nice. The drummer, who was breathtakingly beautiful was a far east Asian, maybe even of Japanese origin, she was as cool and refined as the last time I saw her. The two guitarists were wearing the same outfits too, and one of them was Irish.

They sang the same set as they did in Dublin, and I began to like their music more. The lead singer then began to say what an honour and education it was to be playing warm-up and traveling with Jamiroquai. He said how much he respected and enjoyed 'Sir' JK's company, and that he never expected it to be quite the uplifting experience that it was. I was pleased that the man had seen the light, and knew and valued Jamiroquai for what they truly are. Dmitry grimaced, he couldn't tolerate their music, and I found myself nail tapping trying to make the time pass more quickly in anticipation of the end of their stint and the beginning of Jamiroquai's.
El-Presidente exit, the crew change the set and Matt's compilation plays. I explained to the others how this compilation goes for a good 15/20 minutes and then culminates in Lalo Schiffren's Enter The Dragon, and that of course being the cue for Jamiroquai to come on stage.

As sure as I love Jamiroquai - that is one funky compilation !!! I couldn't help myself from cavorting in my confined space to the funkiest of my ability !!! We want that CD Matt !!!
Da, da, da, yah !!! And we are swinging karate chops at each other, it takes a while for some of the other people to warm up !!! We're sizzling !!! Then that strange feeling overwhelmed me again, I feel my stomach bounce to my feet and return and the thought of the whole of Jamily choked me. I froze for that eerie instant, and then it was time.

TRACK 1 Canned Heat
The boys come on stage one by one, not looking at the audience. Just walking purposely over to their places. Matt, Rob, Sola, Derrick, Paul, Lorraine, Hazel and Sam too. Hazel recognizes me and waves. I wonder if they recognized AA too, I'm sure they did. After all he was the only child at all three gigs, and front row every time bless him, AA has canned heat in his genes !!!

Then the Space Cowboy appears, wearing his slightly faded (a coy journalist's description sarcastically written describing his attire in Birmingham), black trousers and black with white trim Slazenger top. Yes, we all wonder at the Slazenger and not Addidas top. The Dynamite black AFO style head-dress that he wore in the FJLIS video is upon his head.
'Hallo Dublin, How Are You Dublin ???' or words to the effect, don't quote me – I was texting Mr. Rowe again. We begin and it's the usual routine in motion, 'Sir' JK has to do a lot of pose striking and prancing close to the media cameras that are permitted for the beginning. They are not many photographer, no more than seven. That is not including the two video cameramen who continued to film the whole performance.

TRACK 2 Space Cowboy
'Yeah, we're feeling funky, and now for something I know you're gonna like' again – don't quote me, but words to the effect and then it's straight into Space Cowboy. It's about 21:18 hrs and so starts the regular performance that we saw at Clapham and B'ham. 'Sir' JK seems to find a chance calm down and concentrate on his voice in this song, and it was perfection. However, the chorus bit is rather hard to do live, and the back up singing – I'm not saying it's the girls' fault – but it just doesn't seem to come out that well. But the meat and two veg' of SC is classic.
I think that it was during SC that the first woman to pass out was handled over our heads from the back to the security guards inside the front barrier. There was a lot of pushing going on to begin with, and we were ignoring it hoping that it would stop. It increased so we turned around giving dirty looks in the direction that the shoving was coming from. The second time, when I was about to open my big mouth, the girls behind me pointed to this woman who was well and truly gone. So we heaved her up and over, but after about five minutes which seemed eternal, trying to gain the security guards' attention, they eventually stepped up to take her from us. They thought that we were yelling and pointing and beckoning at 'Sir' JK, so they looked straight through us. Eventually, they grabbed her over AA's head and I bunked up the rear using a leg-up horse-riding style boost. Poor thing, her glasses fell off, and I secured them to her blouse telling the guards that they'd better make sure that she kept her glasses safe.

Then the other half, her boyfriend came looking to jump over the barrier to follow her out, and I gave him the same instructions to secure her glasses. I was adamant about that because, not only may her spectacles have cost her a packet, but the dependency on them can be total, just as I used to be.

I read on the official site that some other poor soul conked out early on as well, but from the way they describe it, it sounds as though they were on the other side. Tough luck, commiserations, there's nothing really to console anyone with when that happens. It made me think of Jan's ritual advice, save energy, save energy girls . . . ah, the Clapham experience !!!

TRACK 3 Cosmic Girl
I text Mr. Rowe track by track, I feared that I would loose my concentration and forget the sequence if I sent the setlist in batches, so I was eager to tried immediately upon recognition of each track. CG was next up at 21:30 hrs, and what a performance !!!
Then 'Sir' JK starts to talk about how nice it is to be back in Dublin. He said that it had been five long years since Jamiroquai last played Dublin and promised to return again, but sooner. The crowd were electric. Yours truly sees this as her cue, so I took out the rolled up flag from the back of my jeans and lobbed in the direction of the stage. YES, it hit the stage, but oops, it caught on one of the speakers and 'Sir' JK couldn't see it !!! I asked one of the security guards if he could shove it up a little further, and he apologizes explaining that they (the security men) are not allowed near the stage . . . oh well. The crowd were responding much better now to 'Sir' JK and the atmosphere was getting far too funky !!!

TRACK 4 Revolution 1993
'Let's go back to something from the first album', says 'Sir' JK, and the crowd look at each other wonder what the hell is that, so I yell out Emergency on Planet Earth. Rob nods in my direction as much as to say there is someone here who knows what the album's name is. Most of the people around me hadn't yet purchased the sixth album, I was quite disappointed in them, but glad at the same time that they had bothered to fork out money to come to the concert. I could bet my bottom dollar that they all bought Dynamite within that week after. It was amazing the atmosphere that gripped the Point. Birmingham couldn't compete, and Clapham was different in many ways.

So with all seriousness we start Revolution at around 21:40 hrs. It was thumping, and the girls are great, and this is such a varied track that floats and then booms, and the vocals are da, de, da, and then forceful. It really was an excellent choice for a live performance. To be honest with you, Revolution used to be one of those tracks on EOPE that I would skip, Jamirokaki told me to invest more in it, and he was dead right (as always), now I want to read his Tune Stories Thread and discover the quirks that make Revolution's story special.

TRACK 5 Little L
Little L is up next at 21:45 hrs, classic performance, absolute perfection again !!! Each musician is at his peak. Matt is a little too far from me, I am middle right slightly more towards the girl's side of the stage, so eye contact with Matt was out. Rob is great, he frequently looks into the crowd, but his concentration is razor sharp. Sola is hard to see tucked away to the back behind his array of instruments. He is always smiling and laughing at the other band members when they are pushed. Derrick has his head down and is working hard. There is a large Perspex screen in front of Derrick's drums, apparently this is to lessen the percussion effect on 'Sir' JK and his microphone. It's almost impossible to see Derrick during the performance, I couldn't even tell you if he had his kilt on or not – that's bad on my part isn't it ???

TRACK 6 Seven Days in Sunny June
Then at 21:52 hrs a graceful performance of Seven Days in Sunny June. Simply melodic, and 'Sir' JK dances and caresses the microphone, the lyrics oozing charm from his face. At the end he walks over to my side of the stage, and pretends to loosen his head gear and pretends that he will throw it to the crowd, like he did with his top at the end of the Birmingham gig. Then he give us a side glance and laughs saying 'you didn't think I would, would you ???' I would love to see him returning it into it's box at the end of a hard night's gig, snuggling it in with a good night kiss. It was fun to see that in the Live In Verona DVD how he handled the AFO headgear.

TRACK 7 Black Devil Car
After which, 'Sir' JK settles down, the lights dim, and the spotlight follows him left and right across the stage, it's 21:55 hrs precisely, and he starts to tell us a little story.

' I am good, good boy really – no, no it's true, nah - you know I always er, always um make my Mumma a cup of hot milk at night before I go to bed. I'm a virgin, no it's true, it's true (playing down the audiences' denials) a virgin a virgin, and erm I have never broken the speed limit or done anything stupid (the crowd roars), I wouldn't know a fast car was if it run me over !!!' At this point, he laughs and says, 'So this track's called Black Devil Car'. And Rob cranks it up !!!

Now, I can quote you that word for word, because I luckily caught the whole of that on video. BDC belts out, and we belt out the words. The taller French girl, Marie, looked at AA and I laughed as he and I gestured in our usual manner during the chorus as though we are making swerving movements with a steering wheel at the appropriate jam point in the chorus . . . if you don't already do it – try it !!!

Still texting Mr. Rowe track by track, and some how or another managing to take the occasional photo and trying to save my battery power by not taking too many videos. My mobile phone uses the same battery as my camera so I had two extra charged batteries with me, and I was carry another mobile phone just incase something happened to my first to make sure that I could keep texting.

The Irish flag was still slumped on the speaker in front of Paul, who never makes any eye contact, although he smiles a lot while he strums away. The air fan with 'JK ONLY' written on a piece of masking tape stuck on it is to the other side of the speaker where the flag is snagged. I begin to loose hope that the flag will ever be discovered.

TRACK 8 Love Blind
Here we go with Love Blind, mrsmoon made a comment about the sound quality of this track and I have to agree with her. Although I am not impartial to qualify in passing judgement because this is not one of my hot, hot favourites on Dynamite. Love Blind starts to play at around 22:02 hrs.

As Love Blind plays out at 22:05, Rob makes qwa, qwa, qwa noises with his guitar, and 'Sir' JK jolts to a halt and starts to do robotic dancing and twisting and rolling his head that made the headgear tilt and angle dramatically. The crowd roar in approval, and he gives us more !!!

TRACK 9 Use The Force
Then, with sheer disregard for my heart rate, Rob jams straight into Use The Force. Oh God, Oh God, I keep thinking, please God don't let me bugger this texting thing up now. I was doing so good, and then the whole place was going wilder than you could ever imagine. UTF pops my cork !!! UTF continues for around 7 minutes, during which I took three videos, one of 'Sir' JK doing more robotics at the beginning when blending from LB, another during the middle, where he does some shuffling type dancing pointing his finger in the air, and the last video, where he jumps and tugs at his top, then struts over to my side of the stage turns and throws his hands down by his side and thrusts his chin upwards. That is where I totally freaked, it was the best bit of one of my most favourite, favourite, favourite tracks and 'Sir' JK animated himself to maximize the musical effect. The video says it all.

After the huge energy demanding of UTF things calm down a bit, and he starts to say about how during life there have been some ups and downs, and times that he'd really much rather not remember. At which point some idiot in the crowd yells 'High Times' (that was me, I don't know what made me do it). 'Sir' JK laughed and turned in my direction and said 'yes, a few of those too'. He was introducing Black Capricorn Day, and that was played at around 22:15 hrs.

TRACK 10 Black Capricorn Day
A great performance, standard stuff. As he introduced this track he apologised that he couldn't remember which album it came off !!! I yelled it out for him 'SYNKRONIZED' and got a nod of thanks and then he laughted and pointed at me. And of course this song always reminds me of a certain Jamily member's son who uses this song for his teeth brushing routine.

TRACK 11 Love Foolosophy
Love Foolosophy started at 22:20 hrs, 'Sir' JK and I sang our pretty, tender little hearts out together. He perched at the front of the stage and pointed outwards as we sang 'I don't want the world I want you'. There's a funny story about that same thing at Birmingham that happened to me. Any way, LF is lengthened out so as that 'Sir' JK can introduce by instrument naming the members of the band, and the girls of course. Then he skips down to high-five us front liners. AA shakes his hand and slaps his shoulder, I grabbed his attention with my eyes, telling him to grab the flag on the stage, he kept asking me 'What, what ???' he knew I was trying to tell him something important, I did grab his hand too, and regrettably I had broken a nail on my wedding ring finger, and I unintentionally dug it into him. Security then moved him along to the other side.

TRACK 12 Time Won't Wait
Next, it's 22:28 hrs and it's time for Time Won't Wait, and I couldn't wait any longer for it. UTF and TWW and that's the best of the best for me. It was gravitating, it made us all surge forward with our arms raised, or so it seemed to me. I panicked again, and tried to remain coherent to complete the texting and videoing. And I got three cracking video segments of TWW. The last of which was a jam by Matt. When I view that video now, it makes me shiver and the hairs stand up on the back of my neck with the reliving of one of the best memories of my life. Thank you Jamiroquai, thank you, thank you. I kept saying that at all the gigs, and thanking the band members by name.

TRACK 13 Virtual Insanity
Next was the Bear's special, Virtual Insanity at 22:36 hrs. Someone threw a pink umbrella up onto the stage, and I began to feel an ugliness in the pit of my stomach that my flag that had still not been discovered, never would. But VI soon fixed that sinking feeling. Most of the crowd seemed to know VI which was a relief that they did at least know some of the tracks better.

Even the security guards at Dublin were jigging about to the music. I caught one of them really getting down on more than once. They did a good job all round and were good sports. Not like the sour pusses, that grunt or ignore you. A lot has to be said for the improvements that could be made with the demeanor and standards of those at Birmingham and Clapham. And don't ask me why, but at Clapham and a Scissor Sisters' & Maroon 5 Gig in Belfast each and everyone of the security were Scottish. Obviously a Scottish company, but I ask myself is it logistical to ship a load of Scotsmen and Scotswomen all over the British Isles ??? The answer to that must be obvious or they wouldn't be doing it I suppose.
This is where we salute the St. John's Ambulance lady at Clapham who was well into her mid-60s. She worked all day, smiled all the time, did AA a big favour (she took him over the barrier to powder his nose), and handed out water bottles while she danced unabashedly to Jamiroquai. One cool, kind lady, and (after 'Sir' JK naturally), she was the second star of the show that day at Clapham Common.

TRACK 14 Alright
22:40 hrs saw the beginning of Alright, which was better than just alright. 'Sir' JK hang it out and his energy levels were still very loaded, even though the best part of the night was nearly over. This time he didn't complain about being 'knackered' or made remarks like it's alright for you lot sitting down. And what with his JK ONLY fan, I wouldn't have been surprised if he had said: 'It ain't 'alf hot Mum'.
After Alright, that was it. The band walked off stage quite unceremoniously, without a salutation or anything. Except Rob, Rob waved a hand and looked downwards as he laid his guitar down. I caught his eye, and he realized that I had something very important to say, he came over to me and I told him 'pick up the flag', and he did. As he walked off stage he started to unfurl it, and he realized that there was something written on it, and he began to turn it around to read it. By which time all of the band members were now out of view backstage.


TRACK 15 Deeper Underground
The crew member who always wears shorts, a rather athletic, mature man came out onto the stage to rearrange things, and potter about. Then after a while, which must have been around 22:50 hrs Jamiroquai came back on stage for the finale performance of Deeper Underground.
They reappeared as they had come on stage at the beginning of the evening, one by one, and quite sedately. Then, last as usual 'Sir' JK burst back onto the stage with the flag sprawled out across his chest parading it backwards and forwards across the stage. My moment had come. I wonder if he and the whole of Jamiroquai enjoyed the fact that I had written JAM PARTY PEOPLE on it (and without indelibly ruining the hotel carpet - if only they knew the saga !!!) ????

My mother is Irish, and my father's mother is Irish, I love the Irish people and the Irish land, it's turmoil and it's truths, and I was celebrating my parents return to their homeland after they had lived 48 years in England. Ireland did me proud that night, and Jamiroquai did me proud, and 'Sir' JK loved the flag. He started jigging up and down with it and sang 'Ole, ole, ole, ole' and the crowd joined in too singing the football song. Then he got down to business and prepared us for Deeper Underground, and tied the flag around his waist.

Jamiroquai ignited the final stick of Dynamite for that evening, and we all blew sky high along with it !!! I could cry as I remember savouring the final moments of what was going to be my last live Jamiroquai performance until God knows when. I felt nostalgia, passion, pain and pride, and was so lucky to have shared this with my children, who have now overtaken me as Jamiroquai fans; and my dear friends who are my instant Jamily.
I started to take as many pictures as I could, and saved the last of my battery to film the ending of DU. And at the end of DU I videod 'Sir' JK's parting words: 'I hope you enjoyed yourselves and we will come back as soon as we can, it was too long (since) last time, thank you Dublin, and you should give a round of applause for these fantastic musicians, thank you very much, we love you all, thank you, God Bless you."

They really did excel that night. And Lorraine, Hazel and Samantha did some new co-ordinated dance moves and were terrific – nothing more or less than terrific, smiling and jiving and putting the icing on Jamiroquai's cake once again.

As 'Sir' JK strode off stage he untied the flag from his waist and handed it to an assistant (I presume) as he descended some stairs on his way to the back exit. Irony of ironies, the flag will probably appear on e-bay next week at million times the price I paid for it – ROFLM(Pretty)AO.

The whole performance finished at 23:04 hrs. It was impossible to just stop. To just switch off and turn about from the stage and proceed home in any condition of normalcy. The French gang were squealing and laughing still, like so many others they were stunned with the excellence, we had another person join our inner-circle by this time. I only had a chance to speak to him, as opposed to scream to him during the concert after the show. His name was Jose, he was Spanish. I don't think he spoke much English, but he grinned the whole time. He was the dead spit of the British singer Craig David and dressed like him too.

We were all dancing about and going over the best parts of the show. Other people joined in with us, so did one of the security guards for a little bit, and then he and the rest of them tried to usher us out of the theatre, they were nice enough. I had to smile on my way out when I saw an 'El-Presidente' T-Shirt up with the Dynamite apparel for sale. Good for them, I thought, especially after the good things that he said about 'Sir" JK.

Maye, AA and I asked the last security guard at the main door to take a picture of just the three of us in our funkin T-Shirts with the name of the theatre behind us. He did his best and like the rest of his colleagues was extremely good humoured !!! And they deserve a thank you too. We wandered outside into the car park, the drizzle relentlessly misting the air. The huge lorries that were lined up in the far corner were now dashing down to the stage door to pack and ship the show to it's next destination. It was over.



FRIDAY

We arrived back to the hotel by around midnight, Maye and AA wanted a Chinese like the night before, it was exceptionally good food. And we picked up a bag of chips as well from a restaurant next to the hotel. The man who served us was Algerian and wanted to chat in Arabic all night. Meanwhile Mohammed wasn't answering his mobile phone, and I needed to ascertain where he was urgently. Then it dawned on me, he might be tucked up in bed upstairs . . . and he was. It was such a miserable evening he couldn't enjoy his pub crawl without wearing sub aqua gear, because of the rain.


We ate breakfast at the same place as we did on Thursday. Then just after mid-day we drove into town. It was such a bright sunny day, and I remember I had to text Mr. Rowe again telling him how 'The sun shines brightly today in Dublin. Dublin and Dubliners bask in the good vibes that Jamiroquai laid thick and richly last night.' Everything seemed to pass in slow motion as we drove through the city heading northwards, until AA screamed 'there it is Mum !!!'. And sure enough, there it was the gig poster. I pulled over did the necessary, and got AA to picture me with poster too.

We then took a leisurely drive back up following the historical North West Passage route to the furthest north west corner of Ireland. We stopped in a beautiful town called Monaghan on the way, where I ate mussels provencale, delightful !!! From there I put more credit on my phone because I had one last text that I needed to send to Mr. Rowe completing the Dublin experience. It read: ' At Birmingham I felt that the true spirit of what the Buffalo Man and Jamiroquai symbolizes was re-kindled. Dublin was pure fun and funk.

In most of the other reports and comments about other gigs, people have praised the light show. If I am not mistaken, Matt or Rob said in the tour blogg that the could see the people in the back seated areas react significantly to the light show. I can honestly say that I didn't notice a thing . . . not a dicky. Yes, there were a lot of flashing lights, and sometimes the lights seemed all green or all red, but that was it. It wasn't until I started to review my videos that I had taken, that I began to have an idea of what the light show was like. And if that was the only drawback of being at the front barrier, then I can live with that. I can't wait for the DVD of the tour. I am hoping that it will be a mixage of the choicest excerpts and performances throughout the tour from different venues, and particularly with footage from the Shepherds' Bush, Man Ray and the other 'private/invitation only' performances.


Thank you Jamiroquai, thank you, thank you, thank you.

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Dublin Fan & Miscellaneous: Pictures # 25
Dublin Gig Pictures: Pictures # 37
Dublin Gig Videos: Videos # 21
A Fuzz Odyssey (Birmingham & Dublin outtakes): Pictures # 13




Dublin Setlist

1 Canned Heat
2 Space Cowboy
3 Cosmic Girl
4 Revolution 1993
5 Little L
6 Seven Days in Sunny June
7 Black Devil Car
8 Love Blind
9 Use The Force
10 Black Capricorn Day
11 Love Foolosophy
12 Time Won't Wait
13 Virtual Insanity
14 Alright
15 Deeper Underground
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 23:21    Reply with quote


Wonderful review heather!
One of the best i read on the forum Wink
Better late than never!
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 00:01    Reply with quote


FRA wrote:
Wonderful review heather!
One of the best i read on the forum :wink:
Better late than never!


Yes, how embarrassing, but as you say better late than never. I might do the Birmingham and Clapham reports yet - LOL !!!
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I'm always here !!!!
Ready to read them Wink
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 10:55    Reply with quote


Me too Heather, i loved it! Very Happy
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That's fantastic, very interesting and well written. Thanks!!! Razz Razz
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Great review, thanks so much Very Happy
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 12:46    Reply with quote


scream ... what a detailed review!! Haven't read it yet... I hope I will find some silent moments in order to enjoy the whole story! ...hopefully before my kids are grown-up! Wink

Thanks in advance, Heather... and yes!! Do a review of the Clapham days!! good

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Look what I found . . .

http://rapidshare.de/files/19096633/______109_.3gp

This is my flag being paraded and the start of DU with a big jump !!!

I found it in my daughter's mobile phone . . .
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The jump is amazing!!! Despite of poor quality video
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