Past projects: "Spot on Denmark" @ AB


SPOT ON DENMARK - 3 November 2007

What
Spot on Denmark was a 1-day event promoting Danish indie, pop, rock and electronic music in Belgium. The goal of the event was to expose cool new Danish bands to the Belgian music lovers and improve the network between music industry professionals in the two countries. Concretely the day consisted of two parts. First of all there was a conference between music industry professionals from the two countries during the afternoon, where more than 80 music industry professionals from both countries participated. The second part of the day was a concert in the evening @ AB in Brussels. The concert featured 4 Danish bands that had been picked by Belgian music journalists and bookers. Those bands were Murder, Figurines, Band Ane and Amber.

Both conference and concert went extremely well with a major crowd at the conference and full house for the evenings concert at Club AB.

Who
The project was coordinated and supervised by the rocking factory and carried out in cooperation with Music Export Denmark, the Danish Embassy in Brussels, the Danish Cultural institute in Brussels, DUP - Danish Independent records labels, AB and 14 Danish indie record labels (i.e. Morningside Records, Bad Afro Records, Cope Records, Jenka Music, Whiteout Music, Artiscope Music, etc..)

Results
Although it is hard to assess the final outcome this early on many things have already happened. Both Murder and Figurines are getting distribution of their latest albums in Belgium. Both bands have also made booking agreements in Belgium and the Netherlands. Furthermore Band Ane is in negotiation for a Belgian distribution deal and non-showcase acts who were only represented in Brussels at the conference are also getting results. For example Emil De Waal will play at the wonderful Gent venue Kinkystar Club on the 10th of February 2008.

Read the Music Export Denmark raport on the results here

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Event participants - The record labels