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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Phantogram – “When I’m Small” on Vimeo. It been two weeks, but I can’t get Airwaves out of my head. And not just because of the wind blowing down my ears. Other festival-goers have talked about being depressed afterwards, being in some sort of malaise. Me, I am using it to my advantage. I’ve been […]
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 […]
This diver is this years keyring to raise funds for ICE-SAR. I bought one on my recent trip to Reykjavík. It reminded me of an article I wrote a while back about ICE-SAR: Somewhere between Mývatn and Grímsstaðir, the road rose up into the mountains, through rocky valleys and deserted farms before the tarmac roads […]
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 […]
Forever to be written into Iceland Airwaves history due to the near hurricane conditions, I start the day with Iceland’s current prince of pop, Ásgeir Trausti. This 20 year old has a debut album to promote, and eight Airwaves shows to get through. His audience seems loyal though, with a group of school kids, and […]
Breakfast, lunch and dinner. My day started incongruously early, with a ‘Rock and Bacon’ session in Prikið. Grúska Babúska had just what I needed. A quartet of Icelandic girls, perched on tables and stools, and delivered a tasty breakfast of vocals, electronics and flute. It was a perfect start to the day, surrounded by Airwavers, […]
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 […]
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.
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 
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