Oh No Ono, Hatesphere and The Psyke Project Announced for SPOT – the Programme for This Year’s Festival Is Now Complete.
May 16, 2007
Henrik Friis |
Oh No Ono have announced their arrival
Now, the final pieces for this year’s great, big SPOT puzzle have fallen into place. We can now reveal that Oh No Ono will be stopping by to play their high-speed, wry pop songs, which among other things have made the Brits fall in love head over heels with the band from northern Jutland.
And the festival has also received invigorating injections of hard-hitting vitamins: partly in the shape of The Psyke Project – notorious for their sombre, drawling hardcore metal – and partly in the form of Hatesphere’s energetic thrash metal which recently won the hearts and minds of the Chinese metal fans at the Midi Festival in Beijing on top of the already large international following that the band already boasts. They have just released “Serpent Smile and Killer Eyes, and right now they come across as the absolute trump card in Danish metal.
From the Faeroese Islands comes Eivør Pálsdottir with her tremendous voice and her beautiful songs with their unmistakable stamp of the rocky islands she comes from. At her gig she will be joined by Budam – the Faeroese equivalent of Tom Waits. In addition there is Boys In A Band. The first time their “cowboy rock” – a hybrid of indie, folk, and blues – really attracted attention, was at the AME Festival in Torshavn in early April when they played a spectacular gig.
Faeroese Eivør at SPOT
Finally, Finnish Rubik and Regina have been added to the line-up. Rubik excel in an ambitious variant of indie rock – not quite unlike a band like Mew. Regina’s distinguishing features are dreamy pop and a penchant for synths and drum machines.
Furthermore, we are happy to announce an addition to the programme for the opening night on Thursday 31st of May. British Apartment are going to join their compatriots in Dead Kids and Metronomy at VoxHall. Apartment find themselves at the centre of a tremendous hype in the UK these days. Their sound is indie rock rooted in the 80’s with The Smiths and The Cure as obvious reference points – but updated for the new millennium.
The printed programme for the SPOT Festival is now available.
