Rhythmic guitar, arrangements that go somewhere unexpected, and live looping used with a light touch. Jamaal Sugars is a solo acoustic act whose influences make an odd but honest list: The Beatles and the Backstreet Boys, Eric Clapton and Ed Sheeran, the Jackson 5 and John Mayer, Dire Straits and Dua Lipa, Oasis and Outkast. That range shows in the set, which runs from Take On Me and Uptown Girl to Levitating and Yellow, with Horses and Better Be Home Soon for the local crowd. He plays lively rooms and quiet ones, and does funerals as well as weddings. All equipment supplied, so he just needs a dry flat space with power.
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Songs Jamaal Sugars can play
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Take On Me (A-ha)Dancing Queen (Abba)Chasing Pavement (Adele)Valerie (Amy Winehouse)Everybody/Backstreet’s Back (Backstreet Boys)I Want it That Way (Backstreet Boys)Songbird (Bernard Fanning)Uptown Girl (Billy Joel)Don't Lie (Black Eyes Peas)Wild World (Cat Stevens)Have You Ever Seen The Rain (CCR)Believe (Cher)Time After Time (Cindi Lauper)Yellow (Coldplay)Put Your Records On (Corrine Bailey Rae)Better Be Home Soon (Crowded House)Horses (Darryl Braithwaite)Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Deep Blue Something)Money For Nothing (Dire Straits)Birthday Song (Don McLean)Levitating (Dua Lipa)Save Tonight (Eagle Eye Cherry)September (Earth Wind & Fire)What Do I Know (Ed Sheeran)Perfect (Ed Sheeran)Thinking Out Loud (Ed Sheeran)Sing (Ed Sheeran)I’m Still Standing (Elton John)Can’t Help Falling In Love (Elvis Presley)Nobody Knows You When You’re Down & Out (Eric Clapton)Layla (Eric Clapton)Change the World (Eric Clapton)Rock & Roll (Eric Hutchinson)The Way (Fastball)Next Year (Foo Fighters)Budapest (George Ezra)Pony (Ginuwine)I Will Survive (Gloria Gaynor)Heart’s A Mess (Gotye)Good Riddance (Greenday)Chemical Heart (Grinspoon)You Make My Dreams Come True (Hall & Oates)Rich Girl (Hall & Oates)As It Was (Harry Styles)Collide (Howie Day)Drive (Incubus)Never Tear Us Apart (INXS)Taylor (Jack Johnson)Banana Pancakes (Jack Johnson)Flake (Jack Johnson)Bubble Toes (Jack Johnson)Sitting Waiting Wishing (Jack Johnson)Inaudible Melodies (Jack Johnson)Hold Back the River (James Bay)Fire & Rain (James Taylor)I’m Yours (Jason Mraz)Take Me Home Country Roads (John Denver)Quiet (John Mayer)Why Georgia (John Mayer)Stop this Train (John Mayer)3x5 (John Mayer)Love Soon (John Mayer)Comfortable (John Mayer)Clarity (John Mayer)Daughters (John Mayer)No Such Thing (John Mayer)New Light (John Mayer)Free Fallin’ (John Mayer Version)Forever Song (Josh Pyke)Memories & Dust (Josh Pyke)Can't Stop the Feeling (Justin Timberlake)The Gambler (Kenny Rogers)I Was Made for Lovin’ You (Kiss)Bad Romance/Flowers (Lady Gaga/Miley)Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)Even When I’m Sleeping (Leonardo’s Bride)Lightning Crashes (Live)Despacito (Luis Fonsi)Rude (Mag!c)This Love (Maroon 5)Moves Like Jagger (Maroon 5)Bright Lights (Matchbox 20)Push (Matchbox 20)Brother (Matt Corby)Love is Easy (McFly)Man in the Mirror (Michael Jackson)Little Lion Man (Mumford & Sons)Unwritten (Natasha Bedingfield)Sweet Caroline (Neil Diamond)Don't Look Back in Anger (Oasis)Hey Ya (Outkast)Let Her Go (Passenger)To Her Door (Paul Kelly)You Can Call Me Al (Paul Simon)Better Man (Pearl Jam)Sunsets (Powderfinger)You're My Best Friend (Queen)The One I Love (R.E.M)Under the Bridge (Red Hot Chili Peppers)Better Man (Robbie Williams)Killing me Softly (Roberta Flack)When You Say Nothing At All (Ronan Keating)Black & Gold (Sam Sparro)Kiss Me (Sixpence None the Richer)AllStar (Smashmouth)Superstition (Stevie Wonder)Sunday Best (Surfaces)She’s So High (Tal Bachman)The Less I Know the Better (Tame Impala)Shake it Off (Taylor Swift)Blackbird (The Beatles)Hey Jude (The Beatles)Yesterday (The Beatles)Here Comes the Sun (The Beatles)Lonely Boy (The Black Keys)Wherever You Will Go (The Calling)Ho Hey (The Lumineers)500 Miles (The Proclaimers)Can't Feel My Face (The Weeknd)Blinding Lights (The Weeknd)Fast Car (Tracy Chapman)Drops of Jupiter (Train)Brown Eyed Girl (Van Morrison)Riptide (Vance Joy)A Thousand Miles (Vanessa Carlton)Teenage Dirtbag (Wheatus)
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On the day
Jamaal Sugars turns up with everything: guitar, looping rig, sound, the lot. What he needs from the venue is small. A flat area, dry, with a power point he can reach. That's genuinely it. Outdoors is fine as long as the spot stays dry and the ground is even under the gear. Point him at the corner you want the music coming from and he'll set up there.
