……..and it really is. There is something like 400 bands, in a huge variety of venues, including bars, restaurants, shops, record stores, chapels, hotels, hostels and even ‘Rock & Bacon’ breakfast shows. I can’t wait. You can read it here.
Monthly Archives: October 2012
My latest piece, about the triumphant return to form of the annual Iceland Airwaves festival has just been published. You can read a copy here. It’s on page 12. Oh, and it gives me an opportunity to post this fantastic little tune from Phantogram, a US band playing this year.
Sóley from Iceland is a member of the indie-collective Seabear. She also studied composition and is a passionate piano player and singer. In 2010 she released her debut EP “Theater Island” which is followed by her first full-length ‘We Sink’ – a pop record, that sounds like a dream: sweet and weird at the same […]
Ólöf Arnalds has published a wonderful Icelandic meat soup recipe over on her blog. Whilst I am yet to try it, the timing couldn’t be better with the chill of Winter already being felt. And it looks gorgeous too. It would probably go well with a chunk of crusty bread, and a tune or two […]
Iceland, Defrosted 