I’ve spent the day lounging around, eating my favourite foods and listening to mainly Icelandic music. I did do some writing though, and it was a transcription of my final interview from Airwaves with the delightful Sóley. I was quite taken with her, and the recording captures some of my shameless flirting. She was laughing […]
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Exitmusic are a band from New York City that played Iceland Airwaves last weekend. Centered around married couple Devon Church and Aleksa Palladino, they played concerts at Kex Hostel and Norðurljós in Harpa. Braving the vicious wind, whipped up sea and frozen water features to get to Harpa, my efforts are rewarded. Exitmusic play delicious […]
So Iceland Airwaves is over for another year. Concerts have been performed in all manner of venues, musicians have played their hearts out, Christmas brew has been drunk, emergency pylsur consumed, and the weather was a bit breezy at times. What follows is a roundup of the best Icelandic artists that played across the festival […]
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 […]
Iceland, Defrosted 