Hey, look at those five cheeky kind of naked guys! That is not how my family behave. Anyway – Kiriyama Family are an electronic band with a freshly released debut album YOU are going to want to own by the end of Iceland Airwaves 2012. Just to make sure, they are going to play six (so far) shows over the course of the festival.

I had a chat with them, and disappointingly learned that they're not really a family!

Keep Me In The Light by Kiriyamamusic

Where are you right now and what are you doing?
We are sitting in our rehearsal studio having a look at some new songs that will be on our second album. We started demoing them a while back and now, after a long summer filled with concerts, we’re finally making time to work on them.

Who is in the band? Are you really a family?
We are five members in the band, but when we play live we have a session saxophone player. None of us is related but after spending such a long time together we find our selves acting like brothers all the time. So you could say were a family.

When you play your show there will be at least 4 or 5 other acts playing – why should people come and see you?
Because we tend to rock people’s world… Seriously though, it’s really difficult to tell anyone why they should come and see us.
We put a lot of effort into our live sound / show and usually people walk out the door with a big smile on their face.

In your wildest dreams, who would you most like to see at the front of the crowd at your show?
Our wildest dream gig would be in a South-European castle, it would be filmed and recorded with additional backing vocals from Caroline Polachek and Yukimi Nagano.
Front of the crowd… doesn’t really matter any more. Music lovers?

What else are you keen to see at Airwaves this year?
Purity Ring, Philco Fiction, Policia (BOOOO!), Dirty Projectors would be a great catch along with Ghostpoet and Phantogram. Really just anything with a “p” in it.

Can you pass on some tips for first timers at Airwaves and in Iceland?
Bring a warm jacket, woolen socks and be there on time. It might get cold… Also, harðfiskur!

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Oh yes, please go for the harðfiskur.

Right, deep breath, you can see Kiriyama Family at Iceland Airwaves in these numerous ways:

Wednesday (Oct 31st) at 3pm in lovely old Hressó bar and then at 8:50pm in Harpa Silfurberg (see you there).

Thursday (Nov 1st) at 12:40pm at Munnharpen (with a coffee) and 12:15am (Friday morning) back at Hressó.

Friday (Nov 2nd) at 9:20pm at Harpa Silfurberg.

Saturday (Nov 3rd) at 5:30pm in bookshop Eymundsson.