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What they said about SPOT 2014
(Photos: Euzen@spot 2014 – chosen for the M’era Luna Festival, in Germany, by Alan Høgholm. Portraits: Jonas Kjærsgaard + archive) Around 350 international media and industry people went to SPOT 2014. We’ve asked some of them about their thoughts on […]
Massive turnout at networking with English labels
By Snævar Albertsson & Henrik Friis. Photo: Jonas Kjærsgaard and Henrik Friis This year’s SPOT Festival was made noticeable by, among other things, having attracted long a line of leading English record labels to the festival. Those strings had been […]
SPOT 2014 – What an Anniversary!
“It’s my third or fourth time here and I always enjoy it. Here I know that I’ll always find some acts to bring back to Hungary. I really love the festival. It’s a really well organized, very eclectic bill. It’s […]
Rainbow panaroma becomes love letter to the Pacific
Girl From the Pacific – a name that conjures up images of sundrenched islands and lustful, exotic getaways. Imagery that seems a world away from the crisp spring air of Aarhus. For the first time in SPOT festivals history, collaboration […]
“Knocking on a closed door”- An inside to Ride the Balance
It may come as a shock to many of the visitors to the SPOT festival this year but in a society that is considered one of the most egalitarian worldwide, gender equality in the music industry seems to have fallen […]
START OF SPOT AT THE INTERNATIONAL KICK-OFF RECEPTION
Today was the official kick-off reception at Aarhus City Hall’s Trafikhal. A lot of people showed up to to receive a warm welcome from the Mayor of Aarhus, Jacob Bundsgaard, followed by a short speech from head of the SPOT […]
OFFICIAL INTERNATIONAL KICK-OFF RECEPTION AT AARHUS CITY HALL
On Friday May 2nd between 11.00 and 12.30 you are invited to a official kick-off reception at Aarhus City Hall’s Trafikhal. Here the Mayor of Aarhus, Jacob Bundsgaard, will welcome you on behalf of the city of Aarhus – followed […]
A SELECTION OF DAY PARTIES HOSTED BY THE INTERNATIONAL MUSIC INDUSTRY
A variety of day parties are to be found and enjoyed during the SPOT Festival. A wide range will be presented, amongst others we would like to suggest some of the day parties that will be hosted by international companies during […]
SPOT Festival 2014: Twenty Years in the making
By Daria Sukharchuk We meet in his office at the SPOT headquarters, just off the street at Vester Allé. Gunnar’s office is tiny, with a big window opening to the street beneath, but the man behind the SPOT festival fills the room […]
Pacific streams in the Rainbow
For the first time: premiere of Anders Stochholm’s solo-project in Your Rainbow Panorama – in an extraordinary collaboration between ARoS and SPOT. The ground is prepared for a special experience on Friday 2 May, when Olafur Eliasson’s spectacular work of […]
