SPOT Festival, considered one of the most significant display-windows for Nordic music, brings together again this year a fine range of international guests from all over the world.

FINNISH ARTISTS AT SPOT

LCMDF

Friday, May 5
19:00
Venue: Katapult

Genre: Pop

With a sudden synth stab there's an eruption of Technicolor energy and somehow the world's just feeling a much poppier place. Hot stepping into our lives from this psychedelic netherworld are LCMDF, two Helsinki sisters smouldering with more Smash Hits factor than Neneh Cherry's Top Trumps card and more giddy, skewed hooklines than an Ace of Base boxset that's been left out in the sun too long. At a time when the popsphere feels a cooler habitat than it has been in fifty years, this formidable twosome of Kemppainens - Emma (22) and Mia (20) - are here to remind people that while cool is fine an'ol, deranged fun is just the best.

Kap Kap

Saturday, May 5
20:00
Venue: Blackbox

Genre: Experimental

With spellbinding rhythms and melancholy melodies Kap Kap explore a sombre and intense sound that makes heavy use of eerie synths, rattling guitars and chanting vocals. Kap Kap’s music comes across as an almost unsettling kind of shamanistic healing because the band creates an irresistible and a progressive trance that may seem scary yet fascinating. 

Zebra and Snake

Saturday, May 5
23:10
Venue: Voxhall

Genre: electro-pop

Tapio and Matti are two old friends, who in an inspirational cross field ranging from Fleetwood Mac via Krautrock to ambient electronic sounds have created their very own warm, happy and festive electronic Technicolor.  They have already toured in Europe from the UK to Spain, and on stage the group’s pulsating synth beats are combined with a drummer, who takes the party to an even higher level.

... the joy in SPOT festival is not just seeing what Denmark and the Nordic region has to offer musically – quite a lot, we know – and nor is it in meticulously planning who you want to see and where, it's about just seeing what you feel like, when you feel like and as is often the case, surprising yourself... - Drowned in Sound (UK)

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