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Hamburg (AP) - He still wears a hat. At the Jamiroquai concert in Hamburg's Barclaycard Arena on Tuesday evening, frontman Jay Kay performs as usual with a wild headgear.

Were it in the past often Indian spring jewelry or oversized cylinder, the cap reminds in Hamburg rather to the iron throne from the fantasy series "Game of Thrones". Except that the copy of Jay Kay is still lit.

There are also many other things to remember this evening: Jay Kay dances like a madman across the stage, as if his legs are not really his body, and the show is lavishly futuristic with computer animations and lighting effects in the style of the band.

With their mix of jazz, house and fun Jamiroquai coined in the mid-1990s, a new genre of pop music. Songs like "Cosmic Girl" and "Virtual Insanity" stormed the charts, making the group an icon of the decade. The poster by Jay Kay, who wears a buffalo head hat, hung in countless German student apartments. In recent years, it has become calmer for the British until 2017, they released their current album «Automaton».

It seems the perfect time for a new tour, because the 90s are celebrating a meteoric comeback with theme parties, platform shoes and crop tops. And Jamiroquai meet the pulse of time in other ways.

Already in 1993, the band warned on their first album "Emergency on Planet Earth" from environmental destruction. At that time only smiled wearily, the theme with the Fridays for Future demonstrations and the success of the Greens in the European elections in 2019 shape the zeitgeist. But part of the story is that Jay Kay has a thing for sprite-eating sports cars. A contradiction? More a part of the band DNA: A little bit of everything. A bit of social criticism, a little sports car, a bit of funk, a bit of electro, a bit of disco, a bit of Indian.

The audience seems to like it. In the classics of the band like «Alright», the last guests get up and dance. Most of the visitors in Hamburg are likely to be fans of the first hour, the Jamiroquai have heard during her youth - you see some gray hair in the crowd.

Jay Kay himself, the band's last founding member, is leaving the advancing age. When he announces a song wrongly, the 49-year-old says only: "I'm already so old, I can not read properly." Otherwise, he lets the music rather speak of and there are at the nearly two and a half hour show with seven musicians and three background singers more than enough. Especially with the two encores "Virtual Insanity" and the Godzilla soundtrack "Deeper Underground", the band gives everything again and is rewarded with frenetic applause.

The performance in Hamburg was one of two concerts in Germany. The second will take place on 4 June in Cologne.

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