Here in Canada, due to I'd say solely to campus radio Jamiroquoi passed
gold status on the recent CD a while back and after next weeks show will
do even better (bear is mind our population is 1/10th of the U.S.). The
show here was moved from one venue to another (same venue owners) because
it sold out so fast. The second venue which holds 2000 sold
out within a day or two and I know of numerous people who are freaking
because they held off buying.
This is interesting because the show scared
the large concert promotions monopoly here because they did'nt think it
could do as well as it did so maybe the people who booked the show in LA
thought the same. I'm pretty surprised at the huge rise in their
popularity myself frankly.
My 2 cents
Carlos
On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Elson Trinidad wrote:
> 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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