When the SPOT Festival kicks off on Thursday May 20th, it will also herald the advent of the festival’s brand new initiative InterSPOT: an international mini festival featuring 19 international
acts playing at seven Aarhus venues.  

For the last couple of years, the SPOT Festival has presented international artists on the opening day, but never in such large numbers as is the case this year

- Last year the international concerts were completely sold out. That is one of the reasons we have decided to take the international dimension one step further this year and expand it to seven stages, so it is going to be a small mini festival in itself. InterSPOT is in line with the rest of the festival in the way that it presents bands and artists that will be revelations to the audience, says Strategy Manager Christian Hald Buhl.  

Besides presenting more international acts to the Danish fans, InterSPOT will also increase the awareness of the rest of the SPOT Festival abroad.

- We have realized that if we want to get Danish music out in the rest of Europe, we shall also have to bring foreign music to SPOT. We can already see the first results of InterSPOT. Thus, one of the biggest music magazines in Greece is going to cover the festival, says Christian Hald Buhl.

The first part of InterSPOT can now be revealed. The biggest venue is going to be Train with a capacity of 800 guests. The title of the night’s programme is De Concert, which is a new network project that brings together a number of European festivals. At Train you will get the chance to see two French acts Gablé and Montgomery as well as Swiss Sophie Hunger. This year the three acts will play at several European festival as part of the de Concert collaboration.

Gablé plays electronic music – a no-rules band famous for bringing grannies on stage when playing their gigs. Sophie Hunger’s pop/rock songs are toying with elements of folk, blues and jazz. Her gigs are said to be very intense. Montgomery for their part see themselves as an indie band with a very dreamy sound that at the same time has a lot of noise.    


More InterSPOT acts will be revealed in the near future.
The entrance fee is DKK 20 at each InterSPOT venue – besides Train the venues are Studenterhuset, Musikcafeen, Café Hack, Fatter Eskil, Svineriet and the ship Stubnitz. Tickets can only be purchased at the venue on the night, so being there well in advance of the concert is advisable. For the general audience as well as music business people with accreditation it is “first come first served” until the venue is full.