Overseas bands & fantasy festivals… In the last post I said that I like the foreign bands at Airwaves to be ones that are popular and cool but that I don’t like – so I get more chance (and more space) to see the bands I do like. Well that made me think of 2 […]
…I think a least half of the people who arrive at my little blog from google have typed in "Iceland Airwaves 2009", (although maybe that could change if I type Britney Spears Naked a bit more often). Most of you keen googlers probably already know that, after some doubt, Iceland Airwaves 2009 in Reykjavik has […]
Oh Yes, you have to love Eurovision don't you! And this year I got it just right, I missed all of the music and sat down with beer and delicious kebab to watch the highlight… the voting. Now, I hadn't done any research, I didn't know that Norwegian eyebrow man was hot favourite, I was […]
The wonderful, magical Olof Arnalds is back in New York doing 4 shows as below, the final one with Bjork. Just a shame I'm stuck in London on a course learning to be an "effective leader". Anyhow, here's the dates… May 5th- Union Hall- Brooklyn May 6th- Sycamore- Brooklyn May 7th- Scandinavia House (Volvo Hall), […]
Awesome thing 1: I’m nearly over my violent jealousy of both Reykjavik! and Mammut playing two gigs in Germany, and none (NONE!) in London. And it is helped by the brilliant podcasts they made which can be downloaded from here. Or, if I have the technology figured out you can see them below. What a […]
I am a "lovable Iceland music nerd". I am nice. I am also important and busy. I know all this because I have read this excellent interview with me, it's amazing what I can learn. I had great fun, I did almost feel important being on the other end of an interview for once. So… […]
So THIS is just about as exciting as it gets. A survey to discover the best 100 albums by Icelandic artists ever. The link above has all the nominations, there's something close to 500 albums – and annoyingly I DO NOT OWN THEM ALL. Yet. Please take part, you can vote for up to 50 […]
Very good… http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk/news/?p=1097 http://www.bjork.com/news/?id=899;year=2009 I kind of wish they were both true!
I hadn't heard of Twitter or Spotify 6 months ago, now I'm thoroughly addicted to both. Spotify does cause concerns for how (or at least how much) artists will benfit, I really hope that maybe the Iceland based gogyoko may hold the ultimate solution for this – I wish them loads of luck, and good […]
Well at least I think so. The festival must be in some doubt, given the horrible financial problems in Iceland (and everywhere else), and the rumours that some international artists haven't been paid yet for the 2008 version. Article here, OK – so this sounds like promising news from the organisers and I will begin […]