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The band also recently shared the stage with bands to the likes of 3 Doors Down,
Hoobastank, Staind and Evanescence at the 2007 My Coke Fest at Kennilworth Race Course
in Cape Town, supported Fall Out Boy at the Coca-Cola Dome in Johannesburg and toured
with Jimmy Eat World, The Violent Femmes and Groove Armada on the Ampli 5 Music Tour.
"We are definitely a 'big stage' band, the size of the stage allows our personalities
to fully come out!" The audience seems to agree. After their performance at Coke Fest,
their MySpace page was over-flooded with messages old and new fans saying that it was
one of the best performances of the day.

Early on, Love Jones were described as a band that "combined the power of the Foo Fighters
with the pop sensibility of Britney Spears". This was apparently too complicated for
most local reviewers and Esjay was furious to read reviews complaining that the music
was nothing like Britney's. "It wasn't like we said 'I sound exactly like Dave Grohl
and look exactly like Britney Spears'", says Esjay. South African reviewers have kept
trying. SA Music tabloid did a better job than most: "The sound of celebrity, scandal,
glamour and sophistication…Esjay's voice burns leftfield rock hardness into their
ingeniously arranged, super stadium-rock ballads." But sooner or later you will have
more than enough opportunities to decide for yourself; Love Jones have almost as many
potential hit singles on their album as they do tracks.

Love Jones is so hot right now, and soon they will be inescapable.
But they're also just getting warmed up. They have an empire to build, remember.