By Neil Durham

WORTH A LOOK? ****

WHEN? Thursday 6 November 2025, tour runs through 18 July 2026

Setlist: (Don’t) Give Hate A Chance; Little L; Space Cowboy; Dynamite; Feels Just Like It Should; Alright; Cloud 9; World That He Wants; Tallulah; Disco Stays The Same; Runaway; Travelling Without Moving; Shadow In The Night; Canned Heat; Queen Machine; Cosmic Girl; Love Foolosophy; Virtual Insanity

Jamiroquai debut 3 songs tonight from their new album out next year, they’re bangers in the same vein as the funk for which they are best known and in the marvellous Disco Stays The Same have a track they could top charts with as they did in their 90s heyday.

• Read on for reasons including how there’s a new album due out in 2026

Welcome to the opening night of the band’s 1st world tour since 2019 and this 17,960-capacity venue in Barcelona is a great location to choose because the crowd are receptive and loving it from the off making up for the 8-year gap since Jamiroquai last played at Cruilla.

‘I don’t usually get political,’ says frontman Jay Kay ahead of final song Virtual Insanity. ‘But even though this was written in the 90s it seems right to play it because we’ve got f*cking maniacs running the world right now.’

It’s a small act of defiance ahead of the release of the band’s 9th studio album next year but it goes down a storm here and this cracking set was so much more than we expected from a band A Humdrum Mum wrote about at Victorious in 2023 and we saw at ONBlackheath in 2019.

Let’s rewind to the beginning though with a fine DJ support set from Cerrone (pictured below) whose French disco from the 70s and 80s, featuring big hits Supernature and Love In C Minor, really sets the tone for the joys to come.

We even hear that Jamiroquai feature on a Dua Lipa track (picture immediately below) after Jay Kay guested at 1 of her Wembley Stadium headline gigs this summer and, finally, it feels the time is right for that 1st new album since 2017’s Automaton to drop.

Kay says ahead of this world tour: ‘One Man’s mission, for 30 years and counting, to put groove music into YOUR LIFE. Will you join us in the fight to Let The Disco Stay The Same – to conquer all your inner fears and boogie like NEVER before? DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES to heal the world through MUSIC? DO YOU HAVE…. THE HEELS OF STEEL!

‘It’s time to dust off those dancing shoes and get down with Jamiroquai as they start the disco balls spinning and the dancefloors overheating one more time.’

Our companion tries to Shazam what turns out to be the 1st new song of the evening Disco Stays The Same because it reminds of the Scissor Sisters with its lyrics about freaks and Saturday nights and, put simply, it’s 1 of the most instantly memorable songs the band has ever written.

New songs Shadow In The Night and Queen Machine follow in fine form and this excitable crowd really doesn’t want the band to leave the stage at the end of this magnificent 2-and-a-half hour gig that has achieved so much more than promised.

The crowd is a sea of Adidas, Kay’s sporting an outrageous selection of headwear but most importantly Jamiroquai has some new songs to rival the excellence of the cheesy handclaps of Little L, the orchestral stabs of Canned Heat and the state-of-the-world Virtual Insanity which sounds more like a song for these times than ever before.

• Main pictures via Facebook courtesy Jamiroquai Tickets
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