Top funk band will play to 300 fans

Jamiroquai’s Jay Kay is going back to his roots by revisiting one of his old haunts to play in front of just 300 fans, it was announced today.

The band will be performing in Ealing, west London, which is where Kay came up with the whole idea of Jamiroquai.

The intimate gig is the first in a series of Carling Homecoming events, which take artists back to where it all began.

Kay said he couldn’t wait to get back to his old ‘‘stomping ground’’ and play some of the old tunes that shot the band to stardom.

The singer said he had fond memories of the area, ‘‘from making demos in a squat to coming up with the whole concept, philosophy and look of Jamiroquai’’.

No tickets are going on sale for the gig at the Broadway Boulevard on May 15.

Instead Jamiroquai fans can get their hands on them by logging on to www.carlinglive.com, Carling’s new music web site.

It will be the smallest gig that Jamiroquai have played in 10 years. The band’s latest double platinum album, A Funk Odyssey, has shifted over three million copies worldwide.