"A hard night of solid funk from this great collection of UK funkateers. With members of acid jazz stalwarts Jamiroquai (original drummer Derrick McKenzie, bassist Paul Turner and Rob Harris on guitar) joining the excellent Louise Pollock, well known both on the Ronnie's bandstand and across the country for her work with Real featuring Louise and Winston Rollins, expect some seriously deep grooves tonight..."

For more information about Funk-Affair please check myspace.com/funkaffairuk and to buy tickets please visit the Ronnie Scotts website.

In these quiet times of no new releases, here's a smooth remix of Love Foolosphy that recently appeared on promo vinyl.   Samples of the Jersey Soul remixes of the track can be heard at the Juno records website (tracks two and three), and more information about Jersey Soul can be found at myspace.com/jerseysoulmusic.

The Daily Mirror newspaper (UK) is reporting that the band are "...in talks with Universal over a new deal... Negotiations have been going on for some time but it seems things have been smoothed out."  More information about Universal Music UK can be found at www.umusic.co.uk.

Jamiroquai keyboard player Matt Johnson has posted a message to his MySpace blog giving an update on what he has been working on recently.  Here are a couple of things that he talks about...

"It's been a mad busy year for me making what is going to be a monstrously good new album with Jamiroquai... I'm really looking forward to touring the new album with Jay and the chaps next year, I really think it's going to be a special album..."

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:

1. The Kids
2. High Times
3. Seven Days In Sunny June
4. Alright
5. Little L
6. Space Cowboy
7. Black Capricorn Day
8. Use The Force
9. Cosmic Girl
10. Travelling Without Moving
11. Love Foolosophy
12. Canned Heat
13. Deeper Underground

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.