Ah, it’s been just over 2 years since I saw Jamie Cullum live in concert in South Africa. I went to both his Johannesburg gigs and they were so different but both so wonderful. I really need to see more of his gigs. I wish he would tour here soon!

He is a highly energetic jazz-pop performer and he sings and plays piano, guitar, percussion and organ. His brilliant band, consisting at the time of Geoff Gascoyne (on bass), Sebastiaan de Krom (on drums), Rory Simmons (on trumpet and guitar), Tom Richards (on sax and percussion) and Ben Lambert (occasionaly on piano) are AMAZING. These guys REALLY know how to give a top-class performance. Jamie jumps around and abuses his sponsored Yamaha grand piano by hitting it, jumping on top of it and stomping around on it. He creates something truly unique which is so refreshing in today’s culture of plastic and repetitive pop music.

The standards that he re-does and his original tracks are so diverse and different in style but him and his band will master any song.

In the picture are (left to right) my friends Jason, Lauren, Jamie Cullum and I in August 2006, in Newtown, Johannesburg.