Author: Eimear Fitzgerald
Holiday Opening Hours
by Clyde Bradford, Eimear Fitzgerald, Jesse Ziebart and Monika Domeniková
Since many of you reading this may be tourists stranded in Iceland over the coming Holiday season, we decided to…
When Ireland Met Iceland
Connecting two islands, one lighthouse at a timeGalway City, Ireland. As I make my way through its winding streets on…
Clean Up Your Act!
When thinking of things to do on a late summer evening, I have to say that rummaging around in a…
All Is Not As It Seems With Elías Knörr
When you stumble across someone creating fresh stirrings in a literary culture that’s already on a constant creative simmer, they…
This Man Crossed Iceland With No Outside Help And He’ll Do It Again
Meet Louis-Philippe Loncke, art enthusiast-turned-engineer-turned explorer extraordinaire. Last summer Lou-Phi, as he likes to be called, completed an exploration first;…
Your Fancy Christmas Gift List
It’s the quintessential Christmas quandary. What to buy for the ones you love, the ones you like, and the ones…
SEEDS Of Revolution
They creep so subtly under the radar that it’s easy to miss them. Like invisible elves bustling about, fixing up…
From Farm to Fork
Rummaging through boxes of vegetables in a local supermarket recently, I noticed something on my quest for the holy trinity…
A Win for KinWins at StartUp Weekend
Family focused online game KinWins, currently in development by ‘Start Up Kids’ Sesselja Vilhjalmsdóttir, Valgerður Halldórsdóttir and three software developers,…
Get Your Business Out of the Starting Blocks
Startup Weekend Iceland steam-rolls its way to town this weekend for a 54-hour training fest that aims to foster the…
Welcome to Leikjavík
Welcome to Leikjavík, Reykjavik’s newest game centre and meeting place for all those who are bonkers about board games and…
Útidúr: This mess we’ve made
I highly recommend that you do not leave this island without the debut album from local twelve-piece band Útidúr stowed…
Hurts to Rock Reykjavík A Second Time
Following their stunning performance at the Airwaves festival last month, it was announced today that UK synth-pop duo Hurts are…
Airwaves Brings in Half Billion ISK To Reykjavík
Foreign visitors to this year’s Iceland Airwaves festival brought almost half a billion krónar to the local economy in just…
True North: Akureyri
On arriving in Iceland, it generally follows that tourists are bombarded with advertisements to experience either of two things. Firstly…
Nigeria Celebrates Fifty Years of Independence
Ráðhúsið, Reykjavík’s City Hall, was alive to the beating of drums, dancing and celebration last Saturday as Reykjavík’s Nigerian community…
Efterklang Inspires A New Generation Of Efterkids
Welcome to Efterkids, the brainchild of Danish super band Efterklang. The project, which out in February of this year, seeks…
Second Coming
I didn’t expect to see fourteen musicians on stage, a mind-boggling array of instruments and an audience ranging from rock…
Amsterdam – Saturday
by Eimear Fitzgerald and Aðalsteinn Jörundsson
Amsterdam is a bit of a mixed bag tonight with a reasonably mixed line up ranging from teenage spunk to…
Risið – Friday
by Eimear Fitzgerald and Anna Andersen
Photo by Hörður Sveinsson I arrived at Risið to find a well-behaved crowd sitting in chairs listening intently to the…
NASA – Friday
by Eimear Fitzgerald and Anna Andersen
Photo by Hvalreki Ljósvaki were first up, and from the off puzzled, then confused and then confused some more. There…
Reykjavík Art Museum – Thursday
Photo by Hörður Sveinsson Thinking I would be late, I burst in the side door of the Reykjavík Art Museum…
Your Airwaves Experience on Live Project
For the first time, Airwaves festival goers will be able to stream their concert videos and photos straight from their…
The Good Doctor’s Guide to Surviving Airwaves
While Airwaves is a rather fun and fabulous time for most, it’s possible that at one stage or another you,…
The Chamber Choir of South Iceland at Iceland Airwaves
Kammerkór Suðurlands (The Chamber choir of South Iceland), introduce their latest CD of sacred music at Landakotskirkja, Reykjavík’s Catholic Church,…