Re: Jamiroquai in LA; AJ tours

Elson Trinidad (elson@westworld.com)
Tue, 14 Jan 1997 23:46:57 -0800

At 12.41 PM 1/14/97 -0800, Derek H. Tarr wrote:
>I just got bummed, as the Jamiroquai show at House of Blues in LA is
>sold out.
>
>I want tickets! Anyone selling or know who is?

This is totally no fair. The House of Blues in Los Angeles' Sunset Strip
only holds about 400+ people. True, Jamiroquai gets barely any airplay here
in the U.S., but surely a bigger venue would have been in order, like The
Palace in Hollywood, where BNH played back in '94. Since the tour is
extremely limited to a handful of cities, naturally fans of the band are
willing to take a long trip to see 'em, hence the San Diego people hoping
to come up and see the show. I wouldn't mind them playing at HOB for 2 or 3
nights, but a less-than-500 capacity venue for only one night? You've got
to be kidding.

I would dread the day an acid jazz act would do a stadium tour, but the
more popular ones deserve larger venues than just small clubs, especially
if they're playing one-night engagements. As I understand, whnever BNH,
Jamiroquai or Incognito play here in my town, it's always sold out, and the
venue is again either the House of Blues, or an only slightly larger (less
than 1,000) locale. Major labels: How do you expect your AJ artists to grow
in popularity and reap $$ for you when you limit them to small venues?
The purpose of tours is to sell albums. How can you expect them to do that
when not very many people have the opportunity to see the shows?

I hope Sony is only "testing the waters" to see what US reaction to
Jamiroquai is like (hence the rather limited 7-city tour) so that an even
bigger tour is in the works later this year. But then I could be wrong.

Elson
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Elson Trinidad

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