It's funny how nights at Airwaves never quite turn out as planned. First stop was meant to be the Project Iceland party at B5 bar, but 8:30 was clearly an unfashionably early time to turn up there, nothing had begun and I'm sorry to say I never did make it back there for the party. […]
Ah, hello Reykjavik my old friend, how nice to be back. Day one has been spent getting organised, visiting old friends and generally getting ready for the week ahead. Festival wristband is adorning my wrist with it's delightful bright pink shine, the press pass (how exciting!) is also bright pink. My colour luckily. The lovely […]
It's the youngsters this time, firstly the excitable, exciting and downright unmissable Ultra Mega Technobandið Stefán and then the energetic newcomers Naflakusk. Hello Ultra Mega Technobandið Stefán, where are you and what are you doing? We do all live in a small fishing town called Seltjarnarnes, but that is a small town in the suburbs […]
24 hours from now I'll be on a plane out of London heading for Iceland Airwaves so I'm really pumping out the interviews. And pumping is the right word this time – two pumping electro dance-pop acts, both of whom have reputations as brilliant live bands and that isn't always true of this genre in […]
Two more interviews already, I'm really trying hard to get all these posted up before the festival starts… this time it's the turn of the awesome Lights On A Highway and the very intriguing Esja. I'm really keen to see Esja and what happens when you take Krummi out of Minus and add the vocals […]
Part 5 already! Here are my interviews with 3 bands that I really really can't wait to see this year. Personal favourites Reykjavik! have been staggeringly good every time I've seen them (which is a lot) I always end their shows out of breath, I don't quite know how they do it – but if […]
Today's iceblah interviews are with two great international acts who will be playing at Iceland Airwaves next week. Matias Tellez, a very exciting young band from Norway fronted by erm, Matias Tellez – hotly tipped by the UK press and well worth a look and a listen. After that, Half Tiger, a band based in […]
More and more interviews! Today, the first one is Jeff Who?. Their show last year was probably the most squashed of the whole festival! And then, a new band (to me), Dynamo Fog – but they are made up of three familair faces from other bands, Future Future, Lada Sport and 200,000 Naglbitar Hello Jeff […]
OK, so here are the first two of about 20 interviews that I'll try to post here between now and the start of Airwaves in less than a week. First up, the relentlessly jangly Dýrðin, Hello, where are you and what are you doing? Hi there. Dýrðin is based in Reykjavik city and currently we […]
With just over a week to go until Iceland Airwaves 2008 gets under way, about 60 more acts have been added to the bill (and 2 – Hjalmar & Megas – sadly seem to be removed) and I assume now that this is the last batch of additions – although the organisers have been known […]