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The schedule is ready
It’s here! A pdf of this year’s timetable is now ready – so you can get an overview of the more than 130 bands playing at this year’s SPOT Festival. The schedule for Friday can be seen here. The schedule for Saturday can be seen here. You can also go to en.spotfestival.dk on your smartohone and compose your own program, and you can also do this if you download our iPhone...
read moreBlueSPOT: Four Danish cities in a musical wrestling match at SPOT – and an international trade-off
Once again there will be a musical city battle Friday at Godsbanen when ORA and the SPOT Festival presents BlueSPOT City – and there will be an international collaboration on the BlueSPOT Excite-stage. The next day Aalborg will continue the fun and games. Last year SPOT and ORA introduced BlueSPOT City – and this year it is back, now at Godsbanen, when a number of bands from four different cities will play on the first day of the festival. This year BlueSPOT City can present bands from Aarhus, Copenhagen, Odense and Esbjerg. Aarhus will...
read moreSPOT On Your Phone
Once again SPOT has got a mobile site this year as well as an app for iPhone. If you go to www.spotfestival.dk on your smartphone you will automatically be transferred to our mobile site, where you can keep up-to-date with what happens at the festival. If you have an iPhone, you can download an app from your App-store. Both on the mobile site and on the app you can design your own personal schedule so that one glance at the phone is enough to make sure you don’t miss any of your favorite bands. In the app you can also get information about...
read moreThe concert schedule is official, two new acts have been added, and mobile site and app are airborne
The SPOT Festival is rapidly approaching. Now the timetable has been revealed so you can plan your festival. Moreover, Danish MØ and Meneo from Guatemala have been added to the line-up, and if you want to be up-to-date on what’s happening at SPOT, we suggest you check out or mobile site or download our app. The 2012 SPOT Festival will open the doors in a fortnight and the last details are now falling into place so you can see when the bands you want to hear will be playing. You can find the wheres and whens for each band at their respective...
read moreVenuelab – an experiment with music
SPOT has announced a new project called VenueLab. Its concept is simple: twelve musicians from different genres and worlds; with different degrees of establishment in the Danish music scene have been divided into three different teams and been assigned a venue to rehearse. The teams will have only three days to put together a concert with a total of 3 x 30 minutes brand new music, as in the subsequent three days they will tour together with the SPOT-venue Radar as their final destination on 4 May. The teams are as follow: Fermaten...
read moreRangleklods, Shiny Darkly, Alphabeat, Icelandic Lay Low and 12 other bands for SPOT.
Good news for pop- boys and girls: Alphabeat is dropping by SPOT to make festive “letter exercises” with catchy words and happy rhythms. Alphabeat’s latest single – the upbeat and fresh song “Vacation” –radiates pure holiday-mood and sunshine. Give me a D as in D-vitamin! Another act to be revealed for the line-up is the always inventive and great songwriter Nikolaj Nørlund. He will, among others, bring Christian Hjelm from Figurines who has been Nørlunds partner during the creation of his latest album “Alt Sammen, Lige...
read moreHannah Schneider, Naja Rosa and Venue Lab – pop, experiments and a healthy mix of both at SPOT
At SPOT there is room for catchy pop, new modes of presentation and unpredictable experiments. Check out a package of no less than nine acts at Atlas and a concert experiment at Radar with brand new songs – written only days before SPOT. The first act in the package at Atlas is Naja Rosa, who will present the fruits of her journey through the American south, where a mobile home, rebuilt for the occasion, hosted recording sessions with quite a few heavenly blessed American blues musicians. We will also present Ignug, who will serve a...
read moreChristopher, Aura Dione and Veronica Maggio to SPOT – and Savage Rose!
Easter is approaching and instead of handing out chocolate eggs, the SPOT Festival adds 13 new acts to the festival line-up. However, like a kinder surprise egg there is more than one surprise inside. The pop genre will have some fine ambassadors at SPOT – for instance Christopher who comes to Aarhus with his brand new release “Colours” and his energetic live band. “He is going to be huge” and similar predictions about Christopher are frequent in the Danish music press. It looks like a massive pop feast at SPOT, and the same goes for...
read moreMads Langer, The Echo Vamper, Klumben & Raske Penge etc.: The 2012 SPOT is almost complete
The complete line-up for the 2012 SPOT Festival is almost in place now. In the pot this time, we have high-voltage guitar explosions, beeping and humming explorations of strange universes and a DJ team from the digital Danish radio channel P6. In this batch of acts we start out with Mads Langer, who has drawn attention to his brilliant voice and his knack for writing songs with plenty of airplay and countless gigs. Just how gifted a songwriter he really is can be seen from his own melodious ballads as well as his fine rewriting of Olive’s...
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