Grand Hotel van Cleef is an independent record label headquartered in Hamburg, Germany.
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Grand Hotel van Cleef (GHvC) was founded in 2002 by Thees Uhlmann, Marcus Wiebusch and Reimer Bustorff. Their first releases were the debut album Du und wieviel von deinen Freunden by Kettcar (the band of Wiebusch and Bustorff), and Hinter all diesen Fenstern by Tomte (the band of Uhlmann). Both albums sold surprisingly well: Kettcar had soon sold 20,000 albums, and Tomte's album spent four weeks in the German charts.[1]
After releasing their own records, the Grand Hotel began signing and producing other indie music acts, and have built a reputation as the most important label for alternative German guitar pop.[2] Notable albums include that by the fictional Hansen Band, a band invented by movie maker Lars Kraume for his 2005 movie Keine Lieder über Liebe (Uhlmann and Wiebusch trained actor Jürgen Vogel on how to adopt the proper rock pose).[3]
Since 2006, the Grand Hotel van Cleef also organizes its own open air festival, "Fest van Cleef." This concert takes place on three days in three different cities each year.