Spot (music festival)
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SPOT is an annual music festival in the city of Århus, Denmark, showcasing up-and-coming Danish and Scandinaviann talent. Most genres of contemporary popular music are represented, rock, hip hop, electronic music etc. In collaboration with Danish jazz association Sunship, the festival has in the past few years allotted a slot for jazz musicians, too.
Started in 1994 at local initiative, the 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. Its stated aim is to promote Danish and Scandinavian music to the international music world, from record companies to the music press. In 2002, David Fricke of Rolling Stone Magazine 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.
Among the bands who have taken baby steps at SPOT are
- 1998 (SPOT05): Under byen (Denmark)
- 1999 (SPOT06): Sigur Rós (Iceland)
- 2000 (SPOT07): Outlandish (Denmark)
- 2002 (SPOT08): The Raveonettes, Junior Senior (Denmark)
- 2003 (SPOT09): Kaizer's Orchestra (Norway), The Blue Van (Denmark)
- 2004 (SPOT10): Múm (Iceland)
- 2005 (SPOT11): Blue Foundation (Denmark), Mew (Denmark)
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| Roskilde Festival | Skanderborg Festival | Midtfyns Festival | Aarhus Festuge | Spot | Aarhus Jazz Festival | Copenhagen Jazz Festival | Copenhagen Pride | Danmarks grimmeste festival | Langelands Festival | Vig Festival | Nibe Festival | Skagen Festival | Tønder Festival |
