Highly recommended non-Icelandic band number two are the excellent Yunioshi from sunny Nottingham in England. They definitely deserve your attention as not only is their E.P. "How To Survive A Robot Uprising" excellent (and featured on South Park on the Comedy Channel!), but also their twitter account has been excitedly discussing Iceland Airwaves 2010 for almnost as long as I have. It's fair to say they are excited to be coming to Reykjavik.

Hi Yunioshi, where are you right now and what are you doing?

Howdy Iceblah! We're in deepest, darkest Nottingham, UK – putting together a press release to let as many people know about Yunioshi playing at the fantastic Iceland Airwaves.  Our lovingly self compiled Airwaves playlist is booming out in the background while we're doing this – fueled by the very rock n roll beverage of Tea with just a touch of cake. Airwaves is a band ambition box ticked. We can't wait.

Who's in the band?

We are made of Rob Yunioshi, Anna Yunioshi Suzuki , James Yunioshi san and Hakushi Yunioshi.

Are you looking forward to Iceland? Have you been before?

We just can't wait to get out there. Its such a beautiful country.  We're lucky enough to have been out and played Reykjavik in 2008 at the venue Organ which we believe is no longer there. We played with Bloodgroup and Sometime to a packed out house – it was such a good night.

Any other plans for your trip?

We're definitely gonna take in the Blue Lagoon again.  Last time we hit Reykjavik it was the perfect place to cure the hangover from the previous nights excess.  Hallur from Bloodgroup took us on a drunken late night tour of Reykjavik after our show – hopefully this time we'll do it in the daytime with less drunken eyes. My most resounding memory from that walk in the fresh snow was standing next to a ramshackle building where Bjork did her first gig.

There will be 5 other bands playing at the same time as you – so why should people choose your show?

Its always such an honour to play for people that make the choice to come and see us. Like at any festival they could choose to see any number of acts – so we'll reward them with an awesome show of big beats, electro noise and big skuzzy guitar sounds, plus the Yunioshi Catering Company that comes everywhere with us will bake up some fantastic cakes to give to the crowds mid set! We're pretty well known for giving out mid-gig snacks. We'll have bubble machines and we're just working on a couple of other things to make it a memorable show.

You're doing a show with Bloodgroup, how did that come about?

Bloodgroup are really great friends of ours and we tend to stay with them when in Iceland and they stay with us when they play the UK. We're always trying to arrange gigs together when the opportunity arises. We even went out to Berlin in the summer when they were writing Dry Land just to hang out with them for a week, getting drunk and playing Kubb in the Tiergarden.  It was great to hear the early formation of such a wonderful album. Our gig with Bloodgroup is still TBC at the moment, but hopefully it'll all be wrapped up soon.

Have you seen the festival line-up? What other bands are you excited to see?

The festival lineup looks amazing. Like we said, we've already made a playlist on Spotify of all the bands that we could find. Of course we'll be down the front for the Bloodgroup shows but I'm also very keen to take in Hjaltalín, Lay Low, Le Corps Mince de Françoise, Chateau Marmont, Timber Timbre and Neon Indian off the top of my head.  We were recently at Bestival festival in the UK and we saw as many bands playing Airwaves as we could.  We're massive music fans!

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So, if you like your scuzzy electro-beats to come with free cakes and bubbles, do not miss Yunioshi at Iceland Airwaves. Find them playing their main show at Faktorý on Thursday at 11pm, and off-venue on Saturday at 5pm in Nikita and on Sunday at 7pm in Hemmi & Vakdi.