Kategori: SPOT 2021 (In english)

The sun is shining, the weekend is just around the corner, and what could possibly be better than a new round of additions to our SPOT 2021 line-up? 

As always, today’s bunch is a great mixture of genres, and we guarantee that there’s something for everyone. They do all have in common, though, that they’re extraordinarily good on stage, and that they cannot wait to be on stage in September! 

We’re not ready for a break in the announcement bonanza quite yet, so start getting excited about new names being added Tuesday next week. In the meantime, find our playlist on Spotify and give it a spin while purchasing your ticket for SPOT 2021. Sounds like a plan, doesn’t it?

SEE YA!  

Angående Mig

Blæst

Brothers Moving

EmmaDop

EmmaDop

FRAADS

Ida Laurberg

Leizure

Mina Okabe

såforsatan

At last, summer is here! Shorts, dresses, sunglasses, and pollen allergies left and right.

In a normal, Covid-free world, this would without a doubt go hand-in-hand with huge concerts at open spaces and screaming along to some of the biggest hits around. Though we might have to settle with a summer touched by restrictions due to Covid-19, we’re extremely excited with the number of events announced all over Denmark. 

And you know what? We’re also quite excited about being able to update our poster with one pile of artists after another these days – and this week is no exception. Today, we’re announcing ten new additions to the line-up, and we’re proud to present a solid mixture of established artists and fresh new talents. 

We really, really can’t wait!

Psst! We’re announcing more acts this Friday. 

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AGGi DiX

Athletic Progression

Blaue Blume

Brimheim

GRETA

Guldimund

JOSVA

RoseeLu

Soleima x Live Strings

Statisk

Last week the first 10 names for SPOT 2021 landed and it was such a big joy for us to finally share the good news and excellent music with you that we can’t wait to send even more great acts your way. 
And that’s why we give you eight new additions to this year’s lineup which has already taken shape in the most beautiful way. A handful of artists who in each their own way embrace genres and expressions in music and whom we already can say that you should look forward to experiencing in September.

We keep working and over the next many weeks we will send even more new acts in your direction. And until we once again have news from the SPOT-office, make sure to listen to the music from the eight new artists in our lineup – you won’t regret it!

See you in September!

Bbybites

Dopha

Helena Gao

HUNNID22

Liberty

Søn

Ydegirl

It’s been rough, it’s been exhausting, it’s been … well, it’s been the opposite of what it’s usually like working with creating a SPOT Festival. But it’s time to look forward, and that’s exactly what we’re doing these days. We’re looking forward to a long awaited and important celebration of the Danish and Nordic music scene in September.

And there’s really no way to describe exactly how thrilled we are to be able to announce the first ten acts ready for SPOT Festival 2021, September 16th – 17th. All ten acts are a part of the incredibly talented music scene we have in Denmark, but also acts who – right here and now – symbolizes our need and longing for consuming culture and everything that comes along in friendships, experiences, parties, curiosity, and life.

We really, really can’t wait!

Barbro

BATHSHEBA

FVN

Hugo Helmig

iomfro

JJ Paulo
Brillebørn - City SPOT

JJ Paulo

Mekdes

SULKA

Takykardia

Undertekst

Photo: Sanne Wijkamp

The Nordic Beats-concept became a reality at SPOT Festival 2019. One stage, eight nordic hip-hop talents, one DJ, a microphone and a great audience was the recipe for success and now it returns to the festivals 2021-edition in September. Booker at SPOT Albert Fajardo-Helmig is happy about the successful start for Nordic Beats in 2019 and that it will once again be a part of the line-up:

“Nordic Beats is a two-hour showcase where the goal is to present some of the most interesting young artists in the urban genre. At the same time it is also our attempt to secure space and focus for the urban artists in the line-up because that genre has never been more relevant than these years”, says Albert Fajardo-Helmig.

One of the most distinguished missions for a festival like SPOT is to put focus on the upcoming talents and the new music and Nordic Beats, as a concept, focuses especially on the urban part of the talent scene in the Nordic countries. There are new successful stories from SPOT each year with new artists finding their place in the business and creating attention around their music – and the artists from Nordic Beats are no exception. Lillebittebock (DK), Baby Bino (DK), Michael Williams (DK), Flóni (IS), Kamelen (NO), Mangera (DK), Nikotin (DK) and Jelassi (SE) made the line-up two years ago and the last mentioned artist from Sweden has just gotten some recognition in her home country.

The rapper Jelassi won the title as “Artist of the Future” at the swedish award show P3 Guld in March. In 2019 Jelassi was already mentioned as one of Sweden’s most promising young rap artists, where she got attention for both her own songs as well as her collaborations with other nordic rappers. 

“It’s a great pleasure to see Jelassi win the swedish P3 Guld Talent-award. It once again shows how much talent the urban genre holds and how this type of sound is becoming more and more mainstream,” tells Albert Fajardo-Helmig.

We are looking forward to presenting a handful of new hip-hop and urban talents to yet another round of Nordic Beats at SPOT 2021.

Nordic Beats at SPOT 2021 is made in collaboration with Soundvenue

Photo: Søren Rajczyk

The newest names and talents in the Danish music business have lost an unseen amount of progress and momentum regarding the visibility of their music in the past year. The loss of opportunities to play in front of a live audience is both demoralizing and damaging for the development of a career.

That is why SPOT will do anything to avoid a cancellation of this year’s festival. And as a result, SPOT 2021 will be moved to after the summer holiday, more precisely Thursday the 16th and Friday the 17th of September where we have a reasonable hope and believe that the political demands for a normal completion of SPOT will be met.

“SPOT’s cultural political purpose is not alone to gather an audience around the music but also to give new Danish songwriters and musicians a professionally meeting place and a promotion platform which can help boost their career both nationally and internationally. The new Danish music, our big audience and our international guests doesn’t deserve to miss out on yet another festival,” tells leader of SPOT Festival, Gunnar K. Madsen.

The SPOT board also also shows support for the move of the festival which can give a much needed boost to the business, display the future of Danish music and how we move on from the pandemic.

“We are all looking forward to meeting again and doing what SPOT is all about – seeing into the future of music and preferably with more security than the business has right now. We have to see where the music industry stands after a crisis and how we move forward into a future, possibly different than before, but hopefully much brighter than the past year has been,” says chairman of the board, Mads Dahl.  

We are looking forward to seeing you in Aarhus at september 16th and 17th 2021. 

All ticket holders have been informed via Safeticket. For more questions regarding tickets, please contact us at billet@2spotfestival.dk