German rock band plays one-man gigs in a van

A band is playing gigs for one fan at a time

in the ultimate VIP experience

Indie-pop duet Milliarden

The venue? An old van

Location: Berlin, Germany

"MILLIARDEN" FAN, NADINE SPICHAL, SAYING:"I'm just happy. Just happy. It was so nice, I'm just a little bit now ..., it was so great, it was really great."

The vehicle is ventilated and disinfected between gigs

which last about 25 minutes each

(SOUNDBITE) (German) "MILLIARDEN" BAND MEMBER, BEN HARTMANN, SAYING:"The fact that we have the club with us, that we are the club owners, so to speak, is something we used to get to the people who are not so close to this, to this cultural landscape, who are not in the big cities. We actually went to the villages and stopped in front of people's houses and played for them. A crisis like this one brings so many opportunities that you only recognize once you do stuff. You just have to do it."

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