In addition to the sure-to-be-great Sigur Ros gigs at Alexandra Palace this week, and not forgetting their Icelandic support band For A Minor Reflection, two other great Icelandic acts hit London in the next seven days. First up, tonight, the mighty Skatar (pictured) play at the excellent Windmill venue in Brixton. I saw these boys […]
Remember this? When I had to miss Sigur Ros in London earlier in the year I was less than happy. Although to tell you the truth, that unhappiness was wholly music-based, I was *quite* happy to be on a Greek beach. But it is still true that missing a Sigur Ros show is something to […]
Like Matias Tellez, I interviewed Half Tiger before Airwaves and now I'm doing it again to see what they thought. Half Tiger, again, like Mr Tellez, played at Organ on that wonderful Friday night of Airwaves 2008. Half Tiger put on a great show in Reykjavik and one Grapevine journalist said it was the best […]
Matias Tellez who comes from Norway and Chile (nice one!) played a great show at Organ during Iceland Airwaves, not only that but he's a really nice guy too. I interviewed him here before Airwaves and recently I interviewed him again to see how he enjoyed the Reykjavik experience as an overseas act at the […]
Fjallabræður played on the Sunday night of Airwaves at Nasa. As they arrived on stage they said "you weren't expecting this". They were right, this was a real treat and one of those brilliant surprises which keeps us coming back to Iceland for more. Fjallabræður are an all-male choir from Flateyri backed by a rock […]
As I've said before, Xfm's new music guru John Kennedy was in Reykjavik last week for Airwaves, and I arrived back in London on Monday night, switched on his show to find it was the Airwaves special (hoorah!). The show was from 10pm-2am, with the special running for the last two hours although he threw […]
And so to the last, shorter, evening of another splendid Iceland Airwaves. We headed to the only venue of the night, Nasa, dead on the start time of 9pm. For the first time this week we were buoyed by what my Mum would call a 'proper meal', 4 (four!) gorgeous big lamb chops, bbq sauce […]
The first gig of Airwaves Saturday was (yet) another trip to see Reykjavik!, this time in the main record store, Skifan. This one was physically slightly more restrained than the main venue shows, partly due to the lack of things for Boas to climb on and partly due to the presence in front of the […]
A long day and night that finally ended at 4am, but started, as far as Airwaves business is concerned at 4pm in Boston Bar where there was an industry-type meet the bands session organised by the lovely people from Iceland Music Export. Beautifully chaotic, but very interesting and well attended – it was great to […]
The first job for Thursday was to meet up with Atli and Georg from the band Spengjuhollin in Hresso for my first ever (maybe last…?) attempt at being a 'proper journalist'. They are lovely guys and were very gentle with me as we chatted for an hour over coffees. The results are in Friday's edition […]