I can't think of any more appropriate first interview of this year's Airwaves barrage than that omni-present Belgian, Wim van Hooste. Wim runs the I Love Icelandic Music website and seems to be at the front of every gig each year at Iceland Airwaves with a press pass and a camera strap around his neck. […]
Gosh. October. That can only mean Iceland Airwaves 2010 is very, very nearly here. I've been busy interviewing various bands in advance. I've got 12 done at the moment, and another 4 or 5 to follow with luck. They will be appearing at the rate of one or two per day from now until the […]
Let the planning commence. The full (but probably not final!) schedule for the 2010 version of Iceland Airwaves was announced this week. As ever, I've turned this into a spreadsheet. If you want to make use of this you can download it below. Happy planning, let me know how it goes… I know I'll be […]
Dear Iceland Airwaves, Thank you for all the lovely bands you have booked for the festival this year. You seem to have hit the bullseye again with bands clearly about to be huge (Everything Everything, Hurts, Mount Kimbie, Neon Indian), the amazing Robyn and loads of great international stuff just waiting to be discovered (start […]
Well this passed a few hours. If you are on twitter, and you you'll be at (or interested in) Iceland Airwaves 2010 then here's the list for you to follow… http://twitter.com/iceblah/icelandairwaves2010 As far as I'm aware, every act playing that has a twitter account is on this list, along with the venerable organisers and some […]
Things are happening, and it's getting closer. Today, finally, the Iceland Airwaves website sprung into life. It's no longer that nasty, not-quite-working and strangely coloured thing, now it's beautiful and shiny and full of up to date (mostly) lists of artists, and descriptions of venues and interesting snippets. The headlines then: * The Airwaves centre […]
There’s a new song by Reykjavik! available. Listen to it here. Hopefully there will be a whole album’s worth of this stuff by the time Iceland Airwaves 2010 rolls around. Of which, more soon… x
Man, I love this new Retro Stefson tune, and the video is hilarious. Can't wait to hear this at Iceland Airwaves 2010. Just too much fun…
Like thousands of others I sat and watched the Iceland Inspires concert last week. Sadly the venue had to be moved due to pretty grim (understatment) weather along Iceland's south coast. It finally took place in the centre of Reykjavik and I guess that an increased audience made up for the drop in dramatism of […]
So, somebody emailed me to ask why they should go to Iceland Airwaves 2010. I thought I'd share my reply… "The hippest long weekend on the annual music-festival calendar" (David Fricke, Rolling Stone) Iceland Airwaves is the best, most friendly, most exciting few days of musical highs imaginable. It runs Wednesday to Saturday (with bits […]