Isn't this an Icelandic music blog? Enough of this weekend city-break nonsense. Although as I sit on a Friday night in London I know that this would be another good weekend to take that weekend break in lovely old Reykjavik – spies tell me that I could expect to see live shows from Singapore Sling, […]
OK, it's a snow sculpture, but you know what I mean. I hope the very beautiful and very talented (grrrr) Hafdis Huld won't mind but I've stolen that picture from her myspace page. I just think that everyone should see it. Isn't it fabulous? It is my favourite snowman-type thing ever, and it's by an […]
Look over there —->, top right of this page. iceblah has managed to link his twitter account to this blog. So now my most recent twitter posts will show up here. Wow! This technology really is like magic isn't it! There's a reasonably healthy population on twitter of Icelanders and their music groups, there are […]
Just a quickie, and only useful if you are in the UK. Tomorrow (Saturday 31st January) The Independent newsapaper are giving away a free 9 track CD of Sigur Ros. In today's newspaper is a long article and interesting interview which you can find here. It's a bit unclear what will be on the CD, […]
I have no idea if Hjaltalin felt any pressure for the only London show of their pretty big European tour last night. They could have done, my Icelandic-music-detector hasn't needed to work too hard to see an impressive amount of mentions in the nationwide and London press in the last week. A very nice album […]
It's still January and the first Icelandic (musical) visitors to the UK are on the way, very exciting news and a Friday night too so I don't have school, I mean work, the next day. They're very likely appearing somewhere near you if you live in Europe too, check out the full list of January […]
This actually came up yesterday as a (particularly easy) question at a pub quiz (we won, thanks for asking) but two artists that can only be described as pop giants both released new albums this week, and both of them are called Circus. Yep, the mighty Take That and that unpredictable Britney Spears have come […]
The excellent music magazine Alternative Ulster included a very good artice about the Icelandic music scene in a recent issue with contributions from not only my good self, but also a load of people who really know what they're talking about, it's reproduced below… In the first of a new series exploring vibrant music scenes […]
Loads of little bits to catch up on (I had a very nice holiday thanks for asking), I'll start with a sure sign that Christmas is coming. I'm a big fan of the music list, and this time of year is pretty exciting. I love to see and read what the critics (or anyone at […]
So, we know that I couldn't go to the Sigur Ros London gig (AGAIN) but luckily I know a man, a reasonably eloquent one too, who could. So here's a very special guest appearance by Mr Icemate, Sigur Ros at Alexandra Palace. Really? I feared the worst. It's a pain to get to and from, […]