Ólafur Arnalds has provided many Airwaves highlights for me over the years, and also some stunning shows in London too. Plus, I always interview him in years which end in an even number! So it was a bit of shock to be scanning the line-up for Iceland Airwaves 2014 and to realise that his name […]
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, […]
For the third year in a row, Ólafur Arnalds delivered one of my standout sets of Iceland Airwaves. I love the music, of course, but I love being in an audience stunned to open-mouthed silence, I enjoy that communal feeling. Nobody makes a sound or moves, and then at the end of each song there […]
I've never quite dared to do this before, but people always want suggestions of which local bands to go and see at Iceland Airwaves 2011. And whilst I could, in all truth, wholeheartedly recommend 30 or 40 bands that I know would not ever be a let down, the number I've been asked for by […]
Olafur Arnalds made my very favourite album of 2009 – the project, "Found Songs" which you can listen to here. For this project he wrote and recorded a song a day for seven days. The highlight, Ljósið, was the seventh. I've only managed to see him live once so far, at Airwaves last year. that […]