“… the 3RD edition of SPOT On Denmark was by far the most successful to date boasting a completely full AB Club and ending with a real party… “
- Knack review of SPOT On Denmark
“…What’s fascinating at SPOT is the amount of talent a small country like Denmark can produce”
Pure FM on the eve of Spot ON Denmark

The Quotes above are unmistakable (more quotes to follow below), and now we can begin to add up the objective results of the Danish night in Brussels.
Not only was the concert on 26th November at the AB Club featuring four Danish acts completely sold out and received excellent reviews as well as plenty of media publicity before the event (see below), the success is also beginning to pay off in terms of concrete deals and contracts – for the four acts playing that night as well as for many of the Danish music business people who were present.
For Lucy Love her effort has really yielded great returns: distribution as well as booking deals for the entire Benelux area with N.E.W.S. and Stage Mania respectively. So far it has resulted in gigs in Belgium and Holland now in mid-January. And on top of that there were already requests from Belgian MTV and the other major Brussels club Botanique in connection with the Danish November showcase.

Lucy Love’s Manager Happy
“It all started with the SPOT Festival in May last year”, recalls Lucy Love manager Kettil Myrstrand. “Already back then we felt this huge interest from the music industry in the Benelux countries and it led to several festival gigs last summer. And now after SPOT on Denmark we have landed the deals. I’m very happy with the follow-up strategy. I mean, first SPOT and then the showcase in Brussels. It has really paid off and it is just professional and effective”, says Mystrand.

I got You On Tape are also happy about the returns on their Brussels showcase. These days various contracts are being negotiated. Manager of the band Christian Møller (Tigerspring) is 80 per cent sure that the band is going to get a distribution agreement as well as a booking deal for the Benelux countries very soon.  The plan is to get the album out in Benelux this spring and hopefully to follow up with gigs this spring, summer festivals and a minor tour in the fall. In connection with SPOT On Denmark the band also played in Gent and at the Sonic Visions Festival in Luxemburg.

Fagget Fairys already had booking and distribution deals before the campaign, but definitely revived the hype in the wake of the summer hit “Feed the Horse”. There are negotiations concerning various festivals this spring and summer. One-man army Prins Nitram got to play another gig in Liège the day after SPOT On Denmark.

Danish Music Business Bonus
Furthermore, many other Danish music business representatives also brought home some important agreements from the get-together with their Belgian colleagues:

Jim Q. Holm from Merger Management got a deal concerning Cody, with whom Stage Mania has now made a booking-agreement. He is also counting on closing a distribution deal in the not too distant future.

Jesper Majdall from Volcano Management brought home new deals for Under Byen: a new promotion deal with Gentle and a distribution agreement with N.E.W.S.

Niels Böttcher from Jenka Music closed an agreement with bang!/PIAS concerning the distribution of the new Band Ane release. Furthermore, Stage Mania is going to present Analogik at a festival.

“Well, it’s certainly great to see that our strategy seems to pay off – both when it comes to inviting the Belgian music business in such numbers and then obviously the SPOT On Denmark follow-up in Brussels”, says Thomas Rohde, head of MXD, which is behind the SPOT On Denmark together with ROSA – The Danish Rock Council. What’s important in this context is that it’s the Belgians who select their favourites at SPOT. They pick the acts they find interesting rather than us forcing some bands down their throats. I think that is one of the key reasons for our success – combined with thorough and serious groundwork. And then obviously our serious networking – over the last many years we have worked on the music business in the Benelux countries”, says Rohde.

The Next SPOT On Denmark is scheduled for the fourth of February in Vienna, where When Saints Go Machine, Kiss Kiss Kiss and Ginger Ninja are to play concerts. They have been selected by an Austrian delegation who attended the SPOT Festival last year. Incidentally videos with the first two acts have already made it to GOTV, Austria’s biggest music TV station, where they are in daily rotation.

If you want an impression of all the press exposure generated by the showcase CLICK THIS LINK.

Source: http://www.spotondenmark.dk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=34&sid=3&catid=4

Vienna here we come - Spot News

Source: http://www.spotondenmark.dk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33&sid=3&catid=4

-It all looks well, says Kenneth Bager – When it comes to Fagget Fairy’s we bet on getting support from MXD – so we could hire a press bureau and a DJ/CLUB promoter to work for us in Germany. The press bureau helped us get quit a few front page articles in different German music magazines, which is crucial if you want to break through in Germany, and now the club-promoter has sent a number to the big disco’s, which has resulted in that the number now is number 19 on the club-chart – which again gives us the hopes for a cross over to more great pop.

And regarding Aura and her 55th place on the trend-list with “I will love you Monday (365)” after only two weeks release, it’s an absolutely satisfactory development. This creates great expectations at Universal – so much that they are probably going to do a showcase-concert with Aura in Berlin, and she is also secured a space on the German TV show Dome 52 on RTL in November.

Source: http://www.rosa.org/v4/home/view.php3?SectionID=78&ContentID=10212&ParentIDs=/&1262697649

Boasting a sold out AB Club and great press coverage the 3rd edition of SPOT ON DENMARK at AB, Brussels, was a great success! Moreover several deals are now in the pipeline for the performing bands. We’ll let these sweet words from the Goddeau review do the rest of the talking: “…

AND THUS OUR PERCEPTION OF DANISH QUALITY MUSIC YET AGAIN BECAME BROADER. AFTER THE ROCK OF THE RAVEONETTES AND THE EPIC OF MEW THEY NOW BOAST RAP AND DANCE TALENT OF THE HIGHEST CALIBER… THE DANES ONLY NEED TO WIN THE NEXT EUROVISION SONG CONTEST TO BOAST THE FULL SPECTRUM OF MUSICAL TALENT…” -Goddeau.com review of SPOT ON DENMARK III @ AB (26 November 2009)

http://www.spotondenmark.dk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=31&sid=3&catid=4

There are less than 20 tickets left for next week’s SPOT On DENMARK in Ancienne Belgique!!!

This baby is gonna sell out so if you’re planning on joining the fun you’d better pre-order your ticket now…

GET YOUR TICKETS HERE:

http://www.facebook.com/l/70445;abconcerts.be/en/concerts/p/detail/spot-on-denmark-iii-feat-fagget-fairys-lucy-love-i-got-you-on-tape-prins-nitram-26-11-2009

All the best,

The SPOT On Denmark team

The interest for Danish music in Belgium, has been experiencing considerable growth during the last three years due to the improved bond, between the Danish and Belgian music industries, which the past SPOT ON DENMARK showcases at AB, and the increasing Belgian participation at the SPOT Festival in Århus have created. As always its a Belgian jury consisting of journalists and music industry professionals, that has chosen this years 4 SPOT ON DENMARK bands. 2009′s Belgian SPOT choices are Fagget Fairys, Lucy Love, I Got You On Tape and Prins Nitram.

The successful SPOT ON DENMARK showcases at AB in 2007 and 2008, paved the way for Belgian success for bands such as, Murder and Slaraffenland, who are now solidly founded in the consciousness, of the Belgium music enthusiast. Likewise Band Ane and One Eyed Mule, have harvested record and booking contracts, due to former showcases.

Positive interest

When it comes to this years acts, both Fagget Fairys and I Got You On Tape, have been featured in the Belgian music press, and Fagget Fairys are currently being played on FM Brussel, and their hit “Feed The Horse” has enjoyed heavy rotation on the Flemish Stu Bru radio. Fagget Fairys have already secured themselves, contracts in Belgium, I Got You On Tape, Lucy Love and Prins Nitram, are also experiencing serious distribution and booking interest, which looks likely to at least bring some of them Belgian contracts.

Great industry participation

A wide spectre of Belgian industry representatives, will attend this years SPOT ON DENMARK, from booking agencies like Live Nation and Quiet Concerts, to record companies, and distributors – who are influential on the European level – like PIAS/Play It Again Sam and News. Moreover European agencies, such as the Dutch Friendly Fire Agency and the French Summery Agency, as well as festivals like the German C/O Pop and Luxembourgish Sonic Visions will join the fun in Brussels on 26 November.

SPOT On Denmark-program 26th of November at AB in Brussels:


 19:30-20:00: Film about Vega and the concert halls influence on the Copenhagen music scene

20:00-20:40: Prins Nitram 


21:00-21:40 I Got You on Tape 


22:00-22:40: Lucy Love 


23:00-24:00: Fagget Fairys 



The Bands are subsequently also playing extra BENELUX gigs here:

25. November 
I Got You On Tape, Gent, Café Video


27. November 
Fagget Fairys – Gent – Make Up Club 


Prins Nitram – Liège – L’Escalier 


I Got You On Tape – Sonic Visions – Luxembourg 


28. November 
Lucy Love – MTV-show – Brussels

SPOT ON DENMARK and the bands have thus far received the following press coverage:

PRINTED PRESS:

November Issue – RifRaf (ticket competition)

November Issue – Guido (2 page Fagget Fairys interview)

November Issue – Gonzo Circus (3 page preview and I Got You On Tape interview)

November Issue – Kiosque (ticket competition)

18 November – Agenda (preview)

18 November – Telemoustique (preview + Fagget Fairys album review)

19 November – Bulletin (preview)

20 November – Focus Vif (preview + ticket competition)

 ?? November – Metro (Preview + Fagget Fairys interview)

RADIO PRESS:

Week 44 (November) – FM Brussel (evening playlists Fagget Fairys new single “Roll the dice”) November playlist – Stu Bru (SAM playlists Fagget Fairys new single “Roll the dice”)

16 November (23:00 – 24:00) – Stu Bru (Select session preview with Kurt Overbergh) –

18 November (21:00 – 23:00) – Stu Bru (ticket competition)

25 November – Pure Fm (SPOT ON DENMARK session @ 2040)

26 November – Lucy Love session @ Stu Bru

XX November – FM Brussel (preview)

1 December – Kink FM (NL) SPOT ON DENMARK @ AB review and interviews

ONLINE PRESS:

http://www.goddeau.com/content/view/6682

http://damusic.be/telex/2009-07-08-opnieuw-spot-on-denmark-in-de-ab

http://www.itsatrap.com/?n=31960

 http://www.soundslike.be/nieuws/?articleID=4175

http://www.soundslike.be/wedstrijden/?contestID=484

http://www.guido.be/Ontspanning/ArticleDetail/ArticleId/5358/De-oneindige-huwelijksreis-van-FAGGET-FAIRYS.aspx

http://www.goddeau.com/content/view/6731

http://www.gonzocircus.com/?p=2249

http://www.goddeau.com/content/view/6761

http://www.spotondenmark.dk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=30&sid=3&catid=4

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