Gig vids: Venus Tunes Live at Cinetol (Birthday Bash)

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! - Dear all, On April 15th, at Cinetol, Amsterdam, we celebrated 3 birthdays (Susanne, Robert and Laura) and the 11-year anniversary of Venus Tunes, the label.it took us a while to finish this video, it's more than one hour of Venus Tunes Live featuring Susanne Alt, Mavis Acquah and Femke Krone and spontanous appearances of very special guests Berenice van Leer and Brandon Delagraentiss.For this video we used 12 sources of cameras, it might not always be HD quality but the goal was to use all the sources together. Read the full filming credits below the video on Youtube.As Brandon sings in the end: Love is all we need and he's right :-)Hope you like it.