Author: Rex Beckett - The Reykjavik Grapevine

Author: Rex Beckett

Final Airwaves Acts Announced – And This Time, WE MEAN IT!

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That’s it, folks! The Iceland Airwaves festival line-up is officially complete! The submission doors are closed, the IMX team has…

On A Date With Svavar Pétur Eysteinsson: The Vegan Sausage King Of Iceland

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A large glob of water keeps dripping out of someone’s rain-gutter onto my head as I huddle in a doorway,…

LET’S DANCE

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At the end of the month, our fair city will be inundated by performance. Since 2002, the Reykjavík Dance Festival…

The Guy In The Fur Coat Shitting His Pants

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Diederik Peeters rejects the notion of being a minor cult celebrity in Iceland. Despite the fact that the claim was…

The Wrong Kind Of Whale Watching

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“How mentally prepared for this should we be?” I asked our driver, Marvin Lee Dupree, as we approached the turn-off…

I Dream Of Cheeses

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Two years ago, I made a Seinfeldian pact with a friend to go the entire month of February without consuming…

12 Tónar Is The Number Two Record Store!

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The local record shop and label 12 Tónar has been named the number two record store to visit before you…

Scream

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After several years of trying different steps and shapes, the festival that unites Iceland’s freelance dance professionals has found a…

Reykjavík Shorts&Docs Up For Prize

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The Reykjavík Shorts&Docs Festival is on the shortlist of entries up for the title of MovieMaker Magazine’s Coolest Short Film…

Sigur Rós Make Rolling Stone’s List Of Greatest Live Acts

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Sigur Rós have come in at 47th place on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 50 Greatest Live Acts Right…

DJ Robbed Blind While Performing At Þjóðhátið

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Atli Már Gylfason had a nightmarish homecoming when he found his apartment ransacked and robbed blind after returning from performing…

New Artists Added To Airwaves Lineup!

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We’re less than three months away from the Iceland Airwaves festival and the organisers have gone ahead and announced FIFTY…

The ‘Chop Stands Alone

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Once called “Nashville’s most fucked up country band” by Wilco’s Ken Coomer, Lambchop are one of the most complex and…

The Case For Quietude

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On a cold, wet Sunday evening, if one has to leave the dry comfort of their living room couch, there…

Track Of The Issue: Plúseinn – “Empire”

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The words say “take it easy now” but the tone says, “fuck, what a boring summer of bad weather we’re…

Taste The Happy!

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It had only been open for three weeks when Ísbúðin Valdís was making 800 litres of ice cream every three…

VIDEO: Grísalappalísa Get Bloody In New Video!

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So last year this cool new band got together with all these kids from other fun bands like Jakobínarína, Oyama…

Shit Gets Real For EVE Online Player

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The gaming world is in shock after an EVE Online lost a spacecraft worth $9000 USD (roughly 1,116,000 ISK), marking…

Lay Low Signs To Record Records

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Icelandic singer-songwriter Lay Low, née Lovísa Elísabet Sigrúnardóttir, has just signed to the local label Record Records. Her first release…

Running Off With The Circus

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“This is the biggest tent, Eyjafjallajökull,” says Ilmur Dögg Gísladóttir, PR & Project Manager of the Nordic House, as we…

Pre-Saturday Night Party Party

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I came away from ATP Iceland with a programme, a chopped wristband, unused bus tickets, a pop quiz sheet, an…

First Adoption By Icelandic Same-Sex Couple Announced

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Television personality Sindri Sindrason announced that he and his husband adopted a daughter last year, making them the first same-sex…

On A Date With Cindy Gallop: Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby

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“Bloody hell. Good god… It’s quite extraordinary, actually,” Cindy Gallop said mere minutes after walking into the Icelandic Phallological Museum….

Iceland Music Export Allocates Its First Grants

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The Iceland Music Export Fund gave out its first ever batch of grant money to local musicians looking to establish…

Icelander Sentenced For Smuggling Drugs Into Denmark

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Guðmundur Ingi Þóroddsson was sentenced yesterday in Denmark to twelve years in prison for smuggling a large quanity of drugs…