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It’s Over – It’s Finally Over!
So, this is it. No more Airwaves 2009. As I type this, we are just uploading the last review here on your special Grapevine Airwaves site, and we’re about ready to close up shop for the year and not think about Airwaves…
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Sódóma – Sunday
A wave of nostalgia swept over me as I watched Seli, leader of the veteran rockabilly outfit Langi Seli og Skuggarnir, strap on his beautiful Gretsch Black Phoenix Brian Setzer signature guitar. I remember having good times back in the 80’s watching…
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NASA – Sunday
NASA provided a venue for the grand finale of Airwaves this Sunday night, the festival in turn duly offered up the goods in the form of a line up of DJs and live electronic acts apparently designed to bring the roof down.…
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Jacobsen – Saturday
To be honest, as more of a rockpig enthusiast I feel even more at a disadvantage reviewing DJs than Icelandic rap music. Thankfully one of the people at the door helped with informing me that tonight’s music is run by Reyk Veek,…
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You: Why are you wearing these dorky running shoes at Airwaves, man? Me: Because my feet hurt from watching all your shitty bands.
I was going to be the human iPod-shuffle last night, going from venue to venue regardless of if it was an official show or an off-venue. But then a New Jersey native who currently lives in New York wound up crashing on…
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NASA – Saturday
I have no idea why I missed Jónas Sigurðsson & Malbikið Svífur’s set. OK. I know. I overslept. A lot. And despite gathering up a sweat running down Laugavegur, despite getting my feet wet and tripping over someone’s bike in the rush,…
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Jacobsen – Friday
The basement at Jacobsen was fraught with electro-hungry festival attendees when Rabbi Bananas started off the evening line-up in style. The music was an extremely experimental synth electro with enigmatic groove that fired up the crowd and gave Quadruplos a strenuous task:…
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Iðnó – Saturday
I’ve never heard of Moses Hightower before tonight. Very good musicians, for sure, the band featuring a saxophone and a trombone. This sounds like a scene from an old film, where the happy young couple goes out on the town to dance.…
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Grand Rokk – Saturday
When I showed up at Grand rokk, I was dealing with some heavy repentance from the previous night. The final night of Airwaves was starting, and I was situated at Grand Rock, at that time the emptiest bar in the entire Northern…
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Sódóma – Saturday
Ten Steps Away did have moments in their set that were good. Bordering on great, even. Playing their sing-songy emo with harmonized vocals, playing loud and most of the time playing well. But they’re also the ones that remind me that Emo…
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Reykjavík Art Museum – Saturday
The perfection of Árstíðir is apparent throughout their entire show, just as all their performances. The strings and powerful harmonies are as amazing as usual, the only objection being that at times it’s just a little too perfect – verging on being…
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Hressó – Saturday
To save myself and the reader precious time in our short, fleeting lives, I have decided to forego the standard procedure of taking an account of a nihilistic drinking binge set to live music and dressing it up with florid prose in…
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Batteríið – Saturday
As the 1st act, Ljósvaki was always going to be up against it, especially with only a few people watching in attendance. But it also didn’t help when you have stage banter such as ”err… this is a song called Going Inside…
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There Will Be Klink
At the point where Coalesce and Brutal converge, the almighty Klink prey mercilessly on aural assault aficinados of the most radical stripe. Fresh from five years in hiatus all manner of pent-up aggression so long dormant within the band teeters on the…
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Thursday: Airwaves Photos
Photos by: Höskuldur Höskuldsson Photos by: Höskuldur Höskuldsson Photos by: Óskar Hallgrímsson (Skari)
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Airwaves Goes Wild!
Last night I put on my drunken safari hat and went hunting for artists. I wanted neither pelt nor horn—the apple of my eye was much more valuable: windows into their souls. For a weapon I only carried one question: What the…
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Blue Lagoon, Fuck Yeah!
Two Grapevine interns defy the repercussions of the previous Airwaves night and head out to the Blue Lagoon and it’s hangover party. And what a party! Initially it was like your average Blue Lagoon visit what with folks lounging and getting their…
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Ólafur Arnalds
Who are you? What can we expect from your Airwaves appearance, and what can we expect of you in general? I am Ólafur Arnalds. You can expect pretty much the same as at any other concert of mine: Piano, string quartet and…
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GHOSTIGITAL
1) Who are you? What can we expect from your Airwaves appearance, and what can we expect of you in general? What am I? Einar Örn, the other half Ghostigital. Also kingpin of grapewire.net but also: Fit and really working again. Out…
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FM Belfast
What can we expect from your Airwaves appearance, and what can we expect of you in general? General nonsense, civil disobedience and dancing friends with blinking lights and loud music in 4/4. What are some of the acts you’ll want to see…
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Sódóma – Friday
My roommate Gummi is a chef. He was making a meal that I quite fancied, and I have to admit, I was tempted to miss the first band and sink my teeth into his delicacies instead. But I’d heard Bárujárn’s infamous video-single…
