To celebrate the release of her brand new 7″ vinyl, LayLow has also released this delightful video. The Backbone has been released in a limited numbered and signed amount and is available on Lay Low’s website and digitally on various online stores. The video was shoot at Rauðasandur Festival and at Sjóræningjahúsið on the […]
Yearly Archives: 2012
I have just written a ‘guest blog’ for ‘I heart Reykjavík’ on Airwaves. You can read it here.
Inverness in the highlands of Scotland is not the most attractive town. I wouldn’t say it was ugly, but it’s not far off. Apart from the river, and a couple of restaurants, it didn’t seem to have much going for it. That was, until I found the bookshop. Not just any bookshop, one that might […]
I just heard that Days of Gray is being screened at Iceland Airwaves. I’m looking forward to this. In the meantime, here is an article I wrote on the project a short while back for Iceland Review online. There is a film being made in Iceland this summer. There are several actually, but this one […]
……..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.
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 […]
This is a love story. Mike Lindsay, best known for his work with English folk-tronica band Tunng, first went to Iceland for the New Year’s Eve celebrations in 2006. He describes this as “like a war-zone, where everyone is more drunk than you, and yet still setting off fireworks out of their hands.” It was […]
Sigur Rós – Ekki múkk from Sigur Rós Valtari Mystery Films on Vimeo. This is the new video for Sigur Rós, Ekki Múkk, from director Nick Abrahams. It features a very English field, the Mayor from The Wire, close up snails, cute and not-so-cute foxes. What more could you want?
Iceland, Defrosted 
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