Friday night at 1:30h at night, when I often come home from a gig.. and you probably turn around once more in your warm beds.. I decided to go to Canvas, Amsterdam and support dj/producer friend Frank Jensen from Soulparlor. It turned out that other colleagues were spinning at the same time but then in the basement, at Doka: Phil Horneman, Douwe van Leeuwen and Guuz Hoogaerts! They were celebrating Stevie Wonder's 66th birthday, and look at the Stevie t-shirts of Douwe and Guuz :-) Stevie all over! Unneccessary to say that it was a fun night!
So the first time we played the music from Royalty For Real wasn't in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, but in Bengaluru and Mumbai, all the way in India in 2023!Here you'll see me play Au Privave, Classy Cats and Royalty For Real, together with Timothy Banchet (piano), Marius Beets (bass) and Sven Rozier (drums).Au Privave is a well-known blues by Charlie Parker which I often like to start with, almost like a soundcheck tune. Although most of the time a soundcheck is done I found out it's a good idea to play a tune everybody of the band knows very well so we all can get used to the sound of the stage, the presence of the audience and it also gives the sound engineer the chance to adjust microphones last minute. During the soundcheck, the sound of the room is significantly different because of the lack of audience. All that flesh and clothes work a little bit like a totally empty room versus a room with furniture and carpets, if you know what I mean :-)Acoustics are so interesting and full of surprises.. Anyways.. hope you like it! - Friday night at 1:30h at night, when I often come home from a gig.. and you probably turn around once more in your warm beds.. I decided to go to Canvas, Amsterdam and support dj/producer friend Frank Jensen from Soulparlor. It turned out that other colleagues were spinning at the same time but then in the basement, at Doka: Phil Horneman, Douwe van Leeuwen and Guuz Hoogaerts! They were celebrating Stevie Wonder's 66th birthday, and look at the Stevie t-shirts of Douwe and Guuz :-) Stevie all over!Unneccessary to say that it was a fun night!
