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Supersport! Wants You To Sing Along
A release show in Fríkirkjan í Reykjavík made for holy moments “Doing it in a church felt somehow appropriate. Even though we’re not big on religion necessarily, this music does feel holy to us,” Bjarni Daníel Þorvaldsson of indie-pop band Supersport! reasons…
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Grapevine Events: Christmas Markets, Repair Cafe, Gyða, The Women Who Plant Trees, and more!
Jóla Reddingakaffi December 18th at 14:00 – Hafnar.Haus – Free The Roaming Repair Cafe is back in town, this time with a Christmas edition! Do you have Christmas lights inherited from your grandma that don’t really work? Don’t want to splurge on…
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Grapevine Picks: Magnús and Skúli — Alicja Kwade at i8 — Salóme Katrín, ZAAR and RAKEL
The Grapevine brings you the pick of what’s going on in town this week. We’ve got album launch gigs to celebrate a couple of unique musical collaborations, and we feature the first show in a brand new art space where long-term exhibitions…
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Íslands In A Stream: Live From Reykjavík
Live From Reykjavík—Iceland’s newest live music event—had its second annual outing last month. It’s a hybrid affair: a live stream to bring the music to an international audience, with a few hundred people present at the event’s four venues to bring an…
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Meet The Venues: Where You’ll Be Hanging Out At Iceland Airwaves 2018
Iceland Airwaves has taken many forms over its twenty years, from being a concert in an airport hangar, to a gritty 101 party, to a grown-up week-long festival with Harpa as it’s clean ‘n’ tidy hub. 2018 sees slight return to the…
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Meet The Venues Of Iceland Airwaves 2016
Iceland Airwaves is, by and large, located in downtown Reykjavík. For first-timers, part of the fun whirlwind of the festival comes from discovering the variety of venues on offer, whether it’s wandering into a quaint wooden-floored music hall, marvelling at a high-ceilinged…
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Church Offers Prayer Space For Evicted Muslims
The Muslims recently evicted from a disputed property now have a place to pray for Ramadan – the Free Church of Reykjavík. As the the Islamic Cultural Center of Iceland (ICCI) recently lost their house of prayer and social functions shortly before…
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Carry Me, Mark Kozelek
Sun Kil Moon, the notorious North Korean dictator, ordered the execution of a series of puffins by firing squad as an apparent snub to a cooling of Iceland-DPRK relations, reports KCNA. “They don’t belong on our plates”, said the DPRK’s Taskforce on…
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Meet The Venues
So you’re browsing through the Airwaves schedule trying to get a feel for your evening and while you know some of the bands at each place you’re really thinking, “Hey, what’s the vibe like in this place? Is this a venue I…
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múm And The Ghost In The Machine
The drums play a key role in múm: they can be organic and primordial, they can resemble the clanking, steam-driven machinery of the Industrial Age, and they can recall the Digital Age, with busy, precise and intricate patterns that suggest some sort…
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Divination: Sun (reversed), Moon
THE SUN, REVERSED (POSITION: SITUATION) “In Slavic mythology, the Zorya are a trinity of sister goddesses who attend to the sun god, whose chariot rides through the sky every day, bringing light and warmth. The sun represents the brilliance of the life…
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Homey and Cosy
We are in a small church, beside a small lake, in a small city in the far, far North. On a not-so cold November night, Christ, arms aloft in a gesture of welcome (or an attempt to kill his followers with his…
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Video: Sinead O’Connor at Fríkirkjan
Sinead O’Connor performing The Emperor’s New Clothes at Fríkirkjan by pallih:[FMP width=”430″ height=”310″]http://static.d8tabit.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/videos/sinead.mp4[/FMP]
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“I’ve Been Saved by Jesus, So Fuck You!”
O’Connor is a stellar performer. Do not forget that her rise to global fame was based on bettering Prince’s version of his song “Nothing Compares 2 U.” Outshining Prince is not something many people can do.
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“Í upphafi var orðið og orðið var hja…”
A man walks. A man walks in. A church. A man walks into a church. Peeled and scraped iconography clings to an arch. “Í upphafi var orðið og orðið var hja…” A man walks in and sits down. Many bodies sit around…
