It's been a very nice year so far for Icelandic musical visitors in London. Last night was a double header in trendy, but far from home, Hoxton with Sin Fang supported by Pascal Pinon. Pascal Pinon played at 8:45, which feels like a very Pascal Pinon time of the evening. When I first saw them […]
Whilst much of Iceland was disappearing under a big fluffy blanket of snow earlier this week, 3 of its favourite musical acts arrived in (comparatively) tropical London to entertain us locals. Big boys Sigur Ros had much of the week sold out down in wild South London and by all accounts accompanied their incredible back […]
I couldn't resist a quick jaunt to Reykjavík for the first ever Icelandic edition of the famous Sonar festival. The chance to see some of the very best stuff Icelandic music has to offer in such a short space of time was too tempting. I had never been to another festival here other than Airwaves, […]
Under names including Seabear, Sin Fan Bous, Sin Fan and Pojke – Sindri Már Sigfússon has been involved in a lot of very fine music over many years. His latest album as Sin Fang, Flowers, might just be the best of the lot. Always wonderful to watch live, Sin Fang are amongst a brilliant local […]
Right. I'm excited. Again. Just over a week from now, Sónar festival will be kicking off a two day party at beautiful, lovely, happy place Harpa (right) in Reykjavík. There will be 3,500 people watching bands on 4 stages, one of which is the underground car park converted, that will be interesting!It's a very exciting […]
In 2006, a few years after I had established that there was more, much more, to Icelandic music than those Sugarcubes and their singer, an album appeared called Wine For My Weakness. It's an wonderous album that I still listen to regularly, I have loved it from the first time I played it. The live […]
This list was compiled with votes from 64 voters, almost exclusively from outside of Iceland. 29 different records got some love, and still nobody nodded in the direction of Björk's remix album. Like I said last year, Iceland is truly full of wonderful music-makers and some lovely fans too. Here's our best of 2012 list […]
Welcome to the (not very) grand announcement of the second annual poll for the best Icelandic album of the year! Last year, I couldn’t believe how many votes there were and Sóley was surely thrilled when her superb album "We Sink" pipped FM Belfast and Björk to the big prize (hmmm, there should be a […]
I knew very little about Epic Rain before Iceland Airwaves 2012. I had heard their 2011 E.P. A Murder Of Crows but shamefully wasn't aware that they had released the album Elegy during 2012. I caught them in Þýski barinn on the Saturday night of Airwaves (they were on just before Ghostigital) and became more […]