Tag: Iceland Airwaves

Dear Iceland Airwaves, Thank you for all the lovely bands you have booked for the festival this year. You seem to have hit the bullseye again with bands clearly about to be huge (Everything Everything, Hurts, Mount Kimbie, Neon Indian), the amazing Robyn and loads of great international stuff just waiting to be discovered (start […]

Things are happening, and it's getting closer. Today, finally, the Iceland Airwaves website sprung into life. It's no longer that nasty, not-quite-working and strangely coloured thing, now it's beautiful and shiny and full of up to date (mostly) lists of artists, and descriptions of venues and interesting snippets. The headlines then: * The Airwaves centre […]

UPDATE 30th JUNE: Storms are coming, the event is moved to Hljómskálagarður in Reykjavik, same time and still live on the interweb at 8pm (UK time). That's a shame, Seljalandsfoss would have been an awesome location – but RVK ain't bad either. Good luck everyone! Give me a wave. So, Glasto 2010 is coming to […]

Iceland Airwaves 2010. It's on. The tickets are on sale. The website is live again (but looks really, really bad – or is it just me?). And we've got some bands confirmed. I love this bit – I love how I decide that I'm going to do loads of research into these intriguing foreign bands, […]

So the UK election result will be known in a few hours, and the endlessly repeating conversations of empty possibilities have driven me upstairs to make another attempt to prove I'm not a terrible blogger like Nick Hornby (who is, of course, a wonderful writer in any form). And even though, I still haven't got […]

Part two is devoted to the noisy stuff, the loud stuff and the sweaty stuff – and three bands that would grace any rock scene anywhere in the world. Starting with Dr. Spock – awesome name, and one of Iceland's favourite live acts, they always get a big and appreciative audience at the festival. If […]