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Excellent acoustic live-recordings at SPOT
The Dutch tv-station FaceCulture recorded and filmed a row of great acustic live-concerts. Quality and good sound recognizes these simple but highly professional recordings, made at very intermistic settings during this years SPOT Festival. FaceCulture had made the trip all the way from Holland to Aarhus bringing along all their equiptment and computers and the filmcrew of 5-6 people did not waste a minute of their time. The filmproduction consisting of short acustic concerts was in a constant flow and the result speaks for itself. Below you...
read moreThank you for an exciting SPOT Festival 2012
The 2012 SPOT Festival is over. Two exciting days with reports of plenty of great music. Plenty of hours spent with like-minded people who – like oneself – appreciate the setup with room for artistic ambitions as well as the social dimension of such a festival. Room for great ambition, but well – it was a bit crammed at times. There will always be lines of people waiting to get into the concerts at SPOT. It’s almost an integral part of the indoor-festival concept. But some lines are really bottlenecks and in a couple of situations the...
read moreKeynote: Sheila Whiteley
With dimmed lights in the room and freshly made coffee in every cup, Professor Sheila Whiteley gave a keynote speech about the gender imbalance in popular music. At Radar the café tables were set up with candles, the light was dimmed and freshly brewed coffee was ready on the bar – the mood was set for an intimate and causal keynote speech. Sheila Whiteley walked around and handed out copies of her speech, which was greatly appreciated by the audience, who paid close attention. When she began her speech only seven had turned up, but it...
read moreKeynote: Scott Cohen
”Show Me The Money” was the name of the keynote by Scott Cohen who told the listeners how to make money in the new digitalized music world. Scott Cohen is a house-hold name in the international music industry: He is the co-founder and Vice President of The Orchard, a huge independent music and video distribution company, and he is longtime manager of The Raveonettes amongst others. The full title of the keynote was: “Show Me The Money – Making money in the Music industry is a challenge. The digital age created more opportunities but...
read moreFuturist Gerd Leonhard
The first keynote speaker to take the stage was the famous futurist Gerd Leonhard. He was invited to Denmark and SPOT Festival to talk about music and the future scenarios for the industry and the musicians. A room filled to the very last chair with excited listeners, most of them armed with pen and papir was the setting for Gerd Leonhards keynote speach at Godsbanen, Friday the 4th at 15.00. Gerd Leonhard was enthusiastic and ready to point out his future analysis despite a few technical problems that caused the session to begin a bit later...
read moreLukas Graham cancelled – Ginger Ninja takes the stage tonight
Lukas Graham (the picture) will unforturnately not be playing at SPOT this year as he has fallen ill. The singer has caught a severe throat infection and a throat specialist has adviced him not to sing before he has had a thurough examination Monday morning after SPOT. These news came to our attention late Friday afternoon. Lukas Graham has said that he is very sad to have to disappoint the fans and the SPOT- audience, who he had been looking very much forward to give a great concert. Lukas Graham and his band were scheduled to play tonight,...
read moreA review from Spain
Eventhough the turn-up from Germany at this years edition of SPOT Festival has been very noticeable, the Spanish press is also present and on their marks at SPOT. The Spanish journalist, Pablo Gil from El Mundo has written an in-depht review of yesterdays happenings at the different venues. In Spanish you can read the full article here: http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2012/05/05/cultura/1336177811.html He writes about how Denmark is able to produce good pop music such as young Christopher, and in a different genre Choir Of...
read moreMXD: Networking Lunch
The turnout was great, the atmosphere was good and the German focus was obvious at the MXD lunch at City Hall. Thomas Rhode who is the head of MXD said that this year more than 350 international guests from 18 countries will be present at SPOT Festival. About 300 Danish and international industry and media people RSVP’d for the event at City Hall. According to Thomas Rhode this is very much in sync with one of the major purposes of both SPOT and MXD – to get Danish and international industry and media people to network. And networking...
read moreSPOT Opening Night: Believe in the dream
Thursday May 3rd and SPOT Festival 2012 has just opened the doors for 3 days of music. The Opening Night of SPOT featured speeches from both the head of SPOT Festival Gunnar K. Madsen and the Danish Minister of Culture Uffe Elbæk, and also music by Green Lives, Nabiha and Mike Sheridan. Director of SPOT Festival Gunnar K. Madsen discribed how the road to reach your dreams can sometimes be a long and difficult one for a musician. After the speach the local band Green Lives took the stage and played 3 songs, where their vocal harmonies...
read moreGinger Ninja has been shifted to Musikhuset Store Sal
After the cancellation of Lukas Graham, the festival has chosen to rearrange the timetable for Saturday. The band Ginger Ninja was supposed to play at Atlas at 21.00, but instead they will be playing at Musikhuset Store Sal, Saturday at 20.20. This is a stage-shift to a bigger stage which we are sure will give the audience a good experience.
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