Win! Win! Win! Tickets to see Jamiroquai

Playing a pre-Sonic Shanghai warm-up gig on August 6, this acid jazz band is fronted by the inimitable Jay Kay, whose fame outside the group largely relates to assaulting paparazzi and a need for speed that’s landed him in legal hot water. They’ve sold over 40 million albums worldwide, scoring hits with singles ‘Canned Heat’ and ‘Cosmic Girl’ – as well as the 1998 Godzilla movie theme song ‘Deeper Underground,’ their only chart-topper in their native Britain.

Deriving their unusual name from mixing ‘jam session’ with ‘Iroquois’ (after the Native American tribe), the band have won more gongs for their ‘Virtual Insanity’ music video than anything else they’ve done. White walls, moving floors and Jay Kay in a big hat equals four 1997 MTV Video Music Awards. Creative, brilliant, hilarious. The song’s pretty catchy too.

Jamiroquai’s music, much like Marx or Wittgenstein’s thought, has evolved so drastically that it is perhaps no longer comparable to its 1992 origins. By the release of A Funk Odyssey in 2001 and the departure of the digeridooist Wallis Buchanan, there was a noticeable shift away from acid jazz towards funk and disco. Unlike Marx and Wittgenstein, however, the band has shifted back towards its original style in the most recent album, Rock Dust Light Star, released in 2010.

// Aug 6, 7.30pm, Shanghai Grand Stage, 1111 Zhongshan Lu, by Tianyaoqiao Lu 上海大舞台, 漕溪北路1111号. RMB380-1,280 (www.247tickets.cn/jamiroquai-shanghai-grand-stage)

WIN! WIN! WIN!

We have a pair of tickets to the Jamiroquai show to give away. Simply answer the following question:

Jay Kay formed Jamiroquai after an unsuccessful audition to become the singer of which band?

Answers to win@urbanatomy.com with the subject 'Jamiroquai' by August 4.