To help fill the void of a year without Airwaves I am going over all my many videos from over the last 16 years and trying to find a few interesting things that I haven’t made public before. Starting today with what I think was the very first appearance by Of Monsters And Men at […]
Every year as part of this series of pre Iceland Airwaves features I try to interview the winners of the annual Músíktilraunir competition (music experiments). The competition has an incredible record of finding brand new bands on their way up. I guess most famously of all with Of Monsters And Men in 2010, but there […]
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 […]
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 […]