Please mark your calendar. SPOT Festival will celebrate its 20th edition during the first weekend of May (2-3 May) in 2014. As always the showcase festival takes place in Aarhus, Denmark.

  • Experience +100 band from the Danish and Nordic music scene
  • Be at the cutting edge of new and hip trends and tendencies from the Nordic music scenes
  • Network with about 1000 music industry professionals. In 2013 +350 international (a record +40% of these came from Europe’s biggest music market Germany) and 600 Danish delegates signed up!

Danish music has been experiencing a lot of international success during the last years. A success in which SPOT Festival enjoys a significant share.

SPOT Festival has thus over the course of time been a stepping stone for acts such as Efterklang, The Raveonettes, Reptile Youth, When Saints Go Machine, Sigur Rós, Tina Dico, Teitur, Aura, Alphabeat, Junior Senior, Mew, Kashmir, Figurines, Saybia, Choir Of Young Believers, MØ and many more, before they were known by the international music industry.

In order to celebrate this important anniversary in style SPOT Festival is putting in a strong effort to book a program worthy of the occasion. You can follow the booking progress at www.spotfestival.dk.

International media and industry people can apply for accreditation via: www.spotfestival.dk/vip.

If you still need further convincing to go, have a look at the international feedback from SPOT Festival 2013:

“I am very surprised that the musical level is so high in Denmark. Every concert you go to, you can trust that you are going to see something good.”
Pablo Gonzalez Batista, Radio 3, Radio Nacional de Espana, ES

“With more than enough local delicacies at SPOT – and that’s without the beer and liquorice-enhanced taxi – anyone from elsewhere in Scandinavia would do well to look over their shoulders(…….) You know over all that there is going to be no rubbish here. But more specifically you know there is going to be some really, really great things.”
Kieron Tyler, The Arts Desk, UK

“The atmosphere was pleasant and colored by the praiseworthy Danish sense for hospitality …. Thank you so much SPOT Festival! See you next year!”
Vanessa Wohlrath, Byte.fm, DE

“Guitar-walls, synths and the beauty of loud. SPOT Festival delivered exciting discoveries.”
Bastian Küllenberg, Intro, DE

“Aarhus is a very nice city, with nice people – and great music.”
Ingo Beckmann, Target Concerts, DE

“[…] SPOT is the most civilised, well run & excellently curated festival in the world, involving neither mud nor camping.”
Neil McCormick, The Daily Telegraph, UK

“This Nordic showcase festival is a yearly must-visit for the varied branches of music’s ever-widening tree.”
Si Hawkins, Clash Magazine, UK

“The SPOT Festival is first and foremost what has put Denmark today on the global map of pop.”
Dirk Steenhaut, Knack Focus Magazine, BE