Photos by Christ Clijssen Touchy touchy! Performing at the rival football club... As you know I'm living in Amsterdam, 3-4 times a week I can see the Ajax Arena stadium while running, sometimes when there's a big event I can here the stadium from my home. I saw one or two football competitions in the stadium, in 2007 I saw The Police there live.. But I never have performed there.. YET! Other football clubs have invited me before, De Kuip, Rotterdam, Gelredome Arnhem, Galgewaard Utrecht and now Philips Stadion Eindhoven. The enemies. Sorry Ajax! Actually I had a very nice chat with Willy van de Kerkhof. He is a PSV legend, he played there for 15 years. 15 years with one club. I guess it was like that in the old days. Nowadays the players/coaches are changing clubs all the time.. It's one of the nice side effects in my job to get to meet all kinds of people. Kitty and I got so many compliments and it was so much fun to do. A bit more on football or "soccer" as the Americans call it:
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! - Photos by Christ ClijssenTouchy touchy! Performing at the rival football club...As you know I'm living in Amsterdam, 3-4 times a week I can see the Ajax Arena stadium while running, sometimes when there's a big event I can here the stadium from my home. I saw one or two football competitions in the stadium, in 2007 I saw The Police there live.. But I never have performed there.. YET!Other football clubs have invited me before, De Kuip, Rotterdam, Gelredome Arnhem, Galgewaard Utrecht and now Philips Stadion Eindhoven. The enemies. Sorry Ajax!Actually I had a very nice chat with Willy van de Kerkhof. He is a PSV legend, he played there for 15 years. 15 years with one club. I guess it was like that in the old days. Nowadays the players/coaches are changing clubs all the time.. It's one of the nice side effects in my job to get to meet all kinds of people. Kitty and I got so many compliments and it was so much fun to do.A bit more on football or soccer as the Americans call it:
