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Airwaves Day One: Let’s Burn Down Reykjavík!
The first day of Airwaves has come and gone, and it was a blast. Caterpillarmen started the official festival, playing to a sober crowd of 40 people (with only a single open beer can in sight), but they still had fun with…
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I Know Nothing: The Casual Listener’s Guide To Random Airwaves Acts
Unlike some of my colleagues at the Grapevine, I’m not a music aficionado. I’m the Jon Snow of music. I’m not engaged with the Icelandic scene, and if someone tells me about this new post-industrial surfer sludge band they’ve heard, my mind…
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Happening Tonight: TV Smith & Caterpillarmen
British punk veteran TV Smith, former member of the Adverts (and more than a handful of other rock acts from all over the world), will be bringing his gravelly voice and critical lyrics to the Dillon stage. While TV Smith is known for shattering ears since ’76, it…
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The Grapevine Interns Highlight What’s Happening This Weekend
It may be the end of the shortest month of the year, but it looks to be quite possibly the busiest weekend of them all! In between KEX Hostel’s annual beer festival, Oyama and Brött Brekka’s show at Bar 11, the Rafnæs DJ night…
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Where Elves Dare Not Tread
The first weekend of August is known as Verslunarmannahelgi (“Merchant’s Weekend”), a national holiday that sees numerous festivals taking place around the island, with plenty of drunken debauchery on offer. Scores of folks make their way to festivals such as Vestmannaeyjar’s Þjóðhátíð…
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SGs and Lap Steels at Amsterdam
I was proven very wrong very quickly. Caterpillarmen play party music that doesn’t take it self too seriously, but do so with so much conviction that it’s impossible not to pay attention. This is the band Johnny Triumph would have started had…
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Iceland Airwaves: Thursday – A Clash Magazine perspective
Words by Matthew Bennett & Joe Zadeh. Photo by Birta Rán. As Anglo-metropolitan muppets, our start in Iceland couldn’t have been much more of a birth of fire. Or more aptly; wind. Fierce wind that could slice your face like young cheese.…
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Doldrums Steal The Show: Iðnó, Night Two
They sing about crack cocaine, coke, being broke and drinking whiskey without an air of satire or wit, any insightful experiences that may inform these songs lost in irritatingly trite lyrics.
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Enter The Court Of The Caterpillarmen
Sonic space monkeys Caterpillarmen are looking to get all prunky in your face! By Bob Cluness Ever since the release of their debut album ‘Adopt A Monkey’ in 2009, Caterpillarmen have been one of the quiet playmakers in the Icelandic music scene,…
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We Can Be Heroes
Tonight, I was once again surprised in ways I didn’t think possible. That stunning, dancing, ceaseless grip of what small-venue Airwaves can be came back to visit us tonight, and we welcomed it like the return of a lover from war. I…