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Apótekið – Wednesday
Why is it that as soon as people start to get all cocky about the weather and start going on about how long its been since it rained, the heavens open? Uhm. Hurling myself out of the rain and into the plush…
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Risið – Thursday
Like a relaxing alternative programme Risið had a line-up that consisted of laid back singer songwriters and folk-pop bands this evening. How fitting that people could sit at tables and listen to the concerts while having a nice glass of wine. Though…
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Apótekið – Thursday
When you go to a music festival it is your ethical duty to do two things: 1) Check out unfamiliar music. 2) Dance. So, with the aim of killing two birds with one drum machine I went to the breakbeat.is night at…
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Stjörnuryk
When I received a copy of Stjörnuryk’s debut, all I knew about them was that they are from Ísafjörður, the capital of the Westfjords of Iceland. I hadn’t heard one song of theirs, so I really didn’t know what to expect. Was…
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Faktorý – Thursday
The women in the crowd were probably heart-warmed by the singer’s shirtless antics; Cities Between Us perhaps makes up for their stale, uninspired barrage of longhaired cock rock with a vigorous stage presence. Though they could have done without the on-stage beer-bong…
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Venue – Thursday
At eight, the venue is as empty as one would expect at such an early hour. A shame that Original Melody are stuck with such a shitty slot, as I thought they’d climbed a wee bit higher up the rungs of the…
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NASA – Thursday
I have seen the pitiless black heart of Icelandic rock music and now my life is never really going to be the same again… All things considered I only have myself to blame. Spending an eternity of graft, having to review some…
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Iðnó – Thursday
Iðnó took a chill pill this Thursday night, with Biggibix, Klassart, Moddi, Moses Hightower, Lay Low and Seabear supplying the goods for a laid back night with a living room-type atmosphere. Given that it’s an old theatre, Iðnó doesn’t have quite the…
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Sódóma – Thursday
Dressed in black, white and red wearing gelled quiffs and bringing an upright black bass along, the 59’s lived up to their name. Forming a classical rockabilly band (lead singer/rhythm guitar, solo guitar, bass and drums) the 59’s told their tales about…
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Tjarnarbíó – Thursday
On the floor beneath the stage a man began unabashedly interpreting the music with his body, stretching his arms out and down and shaking his wrists, bouncing meanwhile on his knees, face turned upward toward the musical gods.
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Reykjavík Art Museum – Thursday
Thinking I would be late, I burst in the side door of the Reykjavík Art Museum into total emptiness. Eva from Hundreds was chilling with a cigarette, the girls from Amiina were doing their makeup and the stagehands were buzzing about lifting…
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Amsterdam – Thursday
Amsterdam is somewhat of a surprising venue this year. It’s the home of sleazy regulars, and reeks of beer and sweat. A place one normally never goes to, except perhaps when the crowd across the road at Bakkus is overbearing and one…
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Apótekið – Friday
Being a performer is often ridiculous. Many venues an artist is made to perform at are all kinds of awful. But most of them are apparently heaven compared to what dance musicians performing at Apótekið are faced with. All kinds of music…
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Sódóma – Friday
As there is a notable metal scene in Iceland it makes sense, that this genre gets an adequate place in the line-up of the country’s most popular music festival. This night Sódóma was dedicated to metal (and its family) on Friday night…
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Faktorý – Friday
Well what a difference a year makes. Grand Rokk, a place where hope and good music went to die is no more. Instead, like a phoenix from the ashes, we have Faktorý. Gone are the slot machines, angry belligerent alcoholics and the…
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Venue – Friday
Moshi Moshi Records is a London-based indie label, which is responsible for releases of Bloc Party and Florence & The Machine, to name a few. Rabbi Bananas The “only skweee artist originating from Iceland” starts out with bass-heavy minimal beats, metallic and…
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Tjarnarbíó – Friday
Emo-Hip Hop Two men on stage and no more than twenty people in the audience, this is how Friday night at Tjarnarbíó started. The name Epic Rain may suggest an emo-core band, but these guys were all emo-hip hop. One of them…
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Iðnó – Friday
The evening started with a quiet, laid-back atmosphere at beautiful Iðnó when girl trio My Bubba And Mi took the stage. The slowly growing crowd took their seats on the floor, which, together with the atmosphere of the music, made perfect sense.…
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NASA – Friday
Ljósvaki were first up, and from the off puzzled, then confused and then confused some more. There is just way too much going with this three piece. They push a part funk/part cabin-cruise jazz hands/part ‘90s pop sound, in Kraftwerk meets lab…
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Risið – Friday
I arrived at Risið to find a well-behaved crowd sitting in chairs listening intently to the evening’s first act, Soffía Björg. The band of five filled the venue with melancholy country, folk, blues. They played the kind of music you want to…
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Amsterdam – Friday
Things were pretty awesome at Amsterdam. The Warsaw Pact got things going with their vibrant gypsy folk, and I’m glad the festival organizers decided to mix things up a bit for a change. It seems like they’re trying a bit overly hard…
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Apótekið – Saturday
After last night’s disaster of a dance concert, my hopes for my third straight night at Apótekið are low. But, to hell with it all, I will do my best to enjoy the line-up, which seems like it’ll be fun. Music from…
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NASA – Saturday
As Hellvar get ready to play their set, we look around to see that NASA is completely empty. Apparently some Swedish pop act is playing at the art museum tonight (The Cardigans?) and this means NASA is a ghost town with its…