2015: A great year for SPOT Festival!
The 2015 edition of SPOT Festival was a tremendous success. A preliminary assessment of the festival is indeed positive: Increased ticket sales, the greatest ever music business turn-out and plenty of praise for both the music line-up and the film programme, the organisation of the...
Successful Nordic M’era Luna night at SPOT Festival: Two acts booked
Agent Side Grinder (SE) to perform at M’era Luna in 2016, while Private Pact (DK) will be on the 2015 bill!
“Skin and Bones”: Breaking taboos about love, sex and physical disabilities
“Skin and Bones” won the 2015 SPOT Film Awards: It is a documentary that breaks taboos, shows...
Lùisa – Utterly spellbinding
Giving a strong performance at this weekend’s SPOT festival, we believe German singer-songwriter Lùisa has a bright future ahead.
By Ellie...
SPOT Film celebrated cinematic Talent
For the second year in a row SPOT was rounded off with the culmination of SPOT Film. With 32 films, music videos, an award show, and 5-600...
Coco Moon: A treat for both the ears and the imagination
Danish five-piece Coco Moon played to a packed out Radar on Saturday night premiering songs from their upcoming new album....
Fine shots from SPOT
See all the pictures from SPOT Festival 2015
International responses to SPOT Festival 2015
Quotes from a number og international music industry and media guests about SPOT 2015
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Nabil Ayers, A&R-representative,...
Aurora: “I can’t believe this is happening to me”
Norwegian singer Aurora impressed the audience with a spectacular performance. Her success is growing fast, and she is just...
Kill J Killed It
With an extra focus on visual elements, Danish alternative Pop artist Kill J showed her talent in a distinctive theatrical performance.
By Gabriele Dellisanti, Jutland...
NOAH KIN – Gritty, raw, but something special
Noah Kin from Finnish-Nigerian Rapper is supposed to be the “Next big thing in HipHop”. His performance at SPOT is one of the...
SPOT International Opening Reception
SPOT International Opening Reception kicked off today with an opening speech by Aarhus mayor Jacob Bundsgaard. Afterwards Jake Beaumont-Nesbitt...
The video: Between Music: AquaSonic
Yesterday a very unique concert experience was premiered at SPOT Festival. Watch a sequence here...
Between the Sound Waves: Underwater Music
Two beautiful ladies in red dresses singing, a bearded guy playing the violin, another lady and a man with drums and percussion – seems...
‘Nächste Haltestelle SPOT Festival’
A Bus journey with SPOT’s German guests
DANCE! DANCE! DANCE!
A magic symbiosis of film and live music is how this year’s SPOT festival started.
By Annabella Stieren, Jutland Station
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SPOT Festival apps ready
Read about the latest news, changes to the programme, music- and film-presentations, networking opportunities, the conference- and seminar-programme, and...
Changes in The Hardspot-program
Redwood Hill cancels, replaced by Dance with Dirt. The Interbeing and Black Book Lodge switch places in the printed timetable.
16 FILMS COMPETE FOR THE SPOT FILM AWARDS
This year SPOT Film gives out two awards - one for the best fiction film and one for best documentary film. 8 films compete in each...
Rock docs with Kurt Cobain and PULP
A unique chance to see six great, international music documentaries including Montage of Heck - the definitive Kurt Cobain-documentary.
Nordic Goth and Industrial Night
3 of the most promising Nordic goth/industrial bands - one will be chosen for the M'era Luna festival.
Bonus additions to the programme
With only three weeks to the festival, things are moving at an ever increasing pace - which means, that we have made a move on some interesting...
Arsenal: “Give me a good story, and I’m yours!”
"Dance Dance Dance" is not a concert with a film backdrop, or a film with a live soundtrack. It's a fully...
SPOT programme ready
- final additions include "Naked" and Who Killed Bambi.
SPOT Festival 2015 is complete. Added to the programme is “Naked” – a special project where...
Underwater music on aqua-instruments
Music like you've NEVER heard it before; Five musicians, each submerged in a giant aquarium, playing a concert under water – on re-imagined...
MAGGIE BJÖRKLUND, THE ART OF PSYCHEDELIC BLUES
She was the only Danish artist at the time to pick up the steel guitar - and was headhunted by Jack White.
Pitch your best film idea and win 100.000 Dkr
SPOT Film is ready to help making your first feature film come true with the pitch competition SPOT The Talent.
SPOT Film launches...
10 fresh faces from the Danish Independent Record Labels
SPOT Festival are proud to announce ten fresh faces, all signed with independent Danish record labels. Shiny Darkly have...
SPOT cooperates with Iceland Airwaves and Les Nuits Botanique
Mammút (IS), Dad Rocks (DK) and Great Mountain Fire (DE) will play SPOT - and the move on to Belgium and...
More than 1000 film submissions
SPOT Festival’s open call to nordic filmmakers closed with more than 1000 submissions to the 2nd edition of SPOT Film.
SPOT Film aims at...
From the icy North – to fiery Hell!
SPOT Festival is delighted to announce 16 new acts. Three of the acts hail from the remote Nordic islands of Iceland and the Faroe...
SPOT Bus for the German audience
This year we introduce a SPOT bus for our German audience going out Thursday April 30 and returning Sunday May 3.
In collaboration with Intro...
Any Nordic goth and industrial bands out there?
M’era Luna and SPOT Festival are looking for Nordic goth and industrial bands!
Europe’s biggest goth & industrial...
From the renowned to the new and sparkly
SPOT releases 25 new acts for the 2015 lineup: International high fliers, new shooting stars – and nine additional names from the...
Intriguing newcomers
- and more established artists. 26 new signings for SPOT Festival 2015 revealed
OPEN CALL TO NORDIC FILMTALENTS
SPOT is now open for submissions to the film programme – fiction, documentary, music films or music videos
Buy your ticket!
Get the first glimpse of tomorrow’s trends in music and film. Why wait? Buy your ticket today!
SPOT Festival 2015 - Music & Film programme May 1 - May 3.
Music and film...
The SPOT busses are back
We are hereby pleased to announce that we will yet again offer music professionals and journalists from Germany, Holland and Belgium free transport to the...
First 5 acts ready for SPOT Festival 2015
We can now announce the first five confirmed names for SPOT Festival 2015:
Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation (SE) // Daniel Norgren...
Thank you
Thank you for your contributions.
The acts’ application process for SPOT Festival 2015 has been closed.
We would like to thank you all for your applications and are...
Info
A little info before you arrive at SPOT Festival 2015
Best pictures and movies from SPOT Festival 2014
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