Spot (music festival)
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| Genre | Indie rock, hip hop, electronica, reggae etc. |
| Dates | Three days (Thursday to Saturday), early May |
| Location(s) | Aarhus, Denmark |
| Years active | 1994 - 2000, 2002 - present |
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| http://www.spotfestival.dk | |
SPOT is an annual music festival in the city of Aarhus, Denmark, showcasing up-and-coming Danish and Scandinavian talent. Close to two hundred artists and bands from most genres of contemporary popular music - such as rock, hip hop and electronic music - play various stages across town, centered around the Academy of Music and concert halls of Musikhuset. Around 8,000 people attend the 100-200 concerts, including 1,500 from the music business, with close to a quarter of these from companies abroad.
Speakers also participate in panel discussions and give lectures on various music industry topics. For example, they answer musicians' questions on "How to make it in the US" and participate in debates on topics including file sharing and the future of the album.
While the audience is mainly local, the most quoted of its stated aims is to promote Danish and Scandinavian music to the international music business, from record companies and concert organisers to agents and the music press. Trying to please both camps, a curious, local music audience and an international music business crowd, is occasionally a source of friction.
Started in 1994 at a local initiative, SPOT festival has been organized by ROSA (Dansk Rock Samråd, translating as Danish Rock Council, an umbrella organization representing various Danish musicians' unions) from 1995 onwards. In 2002, David Fricke of Rolling Stone spotted the Raveonettes at the festival and his subsequent endorsement was considered instrumental in landing them a contract with Columbia Records. This incident greatly increased interest in the festival among musicians as a 'place to be seen', prompting among others Sort Sol, a staple of the Danish music scene since 1977, to appear the following year in the hope of garnering international interest in their back catalogue.
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