The Anatomy Of Frank are, as far as I can tell, a bunch of fun and friendly Americans with a thing for Iceland. In other words, exactly the sort of international band you want to see at Iceland Airwaves. At the last count they had 10 off-venue shows lined up, I rather suspect they are […]
Reykjavik! have been one of the highlights of Iceland Airwaves for years and years. But even better than that has been their annual interview with a website called 'iceblah'. And the unbelievable, distressing, but ultimately true fact that Reykjavik! are not playing this year wasn't going to end that particular brand of fun… Hey […]
The website straum.is is exactly the sort of wonderful looking and clearly essential Icelandic website that makes me resolve again to try a little bit harder with that language. It is a great looking place with a load of news and features plus plenty of videos. And, it has just turned one year old (CONGRATULATIONS!!!). […]
Úlfur Eldjárn is already well known as a member of the legendary (there I said it) Icelandic act Apparat Organ Quartet – a band high on the list of the "must-sees" for this and many previous Airwaves festivals. This year, Úlfur is also playing for the first time as a solo artist and is working […]
Hymnalaya have only been around a short time, yet their debut record is already available from excellent local label recordrecords. They are yet another Icelandic band who are not easy (at least for me) to categorise or easily describe (so I asked them to do it for me below), I also like a comment on […]
The annual competition for new bands in Iceland, Músíktilraunir, has a pretty incredible track record for unearthing excellent talent (seriously, check out hte list of winners here). So it would be fairly silly to not stick with tradition of the last 5 or 6 years and have a word with the most recent winners before […]
I've only seen AMFJ (Aðalsteinn Jörundsson,) play once, and I'll definitely be trying to see him again this year. It's noisy, it's distorted, it's electonic and it's very, very real. It's kind of irresistable. I'm delighted to have had a chance to catch up with Aðalsteinn and ask a few questions ahead of Airwaves and […]
I heard a song around lunchtime yesterday. It was performed live at Harpa a few days ago by the classic Icelandic band Nýdönsk, it was their song Flugvélar. I was vaguely familiar with the song, it was on an album I had from I guess about 10 or 12 years ago. I hadn't heard it […]
The English language Icelandic newspaper, The Reykjavík Grapevine is 10 years old this week. This is not going to be an unbiased article, I totally love that paper. Over the last ten years I have (yes, you know this) been a regular visitor to Iceland. When I think of Iceland I pretty quickly think of […]
I came across Headphones, the new album by Jóhann Kristinsson, last week when I heard about it on the same day from three different people. It was also a couple of days after I had been given some fancy new headphones – so it all made sense. I listened to it online a couple of […]