Iceland Airwaves 2011
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THE MOST AWESOME GRAPEVINE AIRWAVES CONTEST YET! WINNERS!
HERE ARE THE WINNERS IN OUR AWESOME GRAPEVINE AIRWAVES AWESOME CONTEST FROM LAST MONTH! 1st Place! Davíð Arnar Baldursson Hello Grapevine! I’ve got one Airwaves story for you guys. It is absolutely true, not my imagination. This happened at last years Iceland…
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Ecology, echology, ecolology
A strong northerly gale pushed against me as I approached the constantly darkening façade of Harpa. Inside, multimedia would meet education in Björk’s Biophilia. All-consuming consumption of 8 (how we ate) Björk’s Biophilia stems from years of her own activist work to…
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Apologies to NASA
An earlier version of this review mistakenly claimed that the venue NASA was selling bottles of water for 500 ISK. While initially confirmed, further research has revealed that this information was erroneous, due to a series of misunderstandings, rendering the reviewer’s observations…
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The Rain Doesn’t Last Forever
Bringing back the grandiose, pitch-black wall of sound that was blasting up the Batcave in the 80s, Murmansk are a hard, howling band full of sexy sorrow.
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In Their Other Lives
The whiskey drinking, football watching, Steinbeck reading ‘Other Lives’ are here from Montana!
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Lovely And Mysterious
Hippie goths of Veronica Falls are boozed up and ready (so they tell us) for the debauchery that is Iceland Airwaves. They tell us they’re inspired by neo-psychedelia and enjoy a good World War II documentary.
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Don’t Fuck With Sudden Weather Change
Love them or hate them, Sudden Weather Change have always been uncompromising in doing whatever they please and letting the rest follow suit. This don’t-give-a-shit attitude has gotten them a loyal fanbase, a fancy Iceland Music Award and tons of sex. Nei,…
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Hvalreki’s Iceland Airwaves 2011 photos
Hvalreki aka Ryan Parteka is an artist and photographer based in Reykjavík. He is a regular contributor to the Reykjavík Grapevine.
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Sunday Night at NASA: The End of it All (for now)
The night starts like this: I am manhandled by the door man (looking for weapons? What the fuck?). I get in and it’s crowded and I’m tired. I fell off my bike earlier and my knee hurts. Basically, sorry to say it, …
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Night Of The Living Dead
I had the great fortune to have two headlining bands to look forward to tonight, and a few opening acts I’d never heard of and hoped might pleasantly surprise me. The night ended on a much higher note than I expected, and…
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Why Sunday is the Best Night of Airwaves
Despite the fact that, come the fifth and last day of Airwaves each year, I make my way—kicking and screaming—to my last assignment, by the time it comes to writing the final review, I always feel a bit sentimental for Sunday.
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Mannheim Outlingers Do It Waaaay Better!
ORPHIC OXTRA Bob: Yup the Balkan klemzacore of Orphic Oxtra. That first song was rather long wasn’t it? Sindri: Well they have an hour set so they’re taking their time aren’t they? B: Where is that piano though? I can hear piano…
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Helgi Valur, The Producer Of Confusion
If you’re not interested in bringing your dancing shoes, Helgi Valur doesn’t want to know you!
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IN THE IMMORTAL WORDS OF PAVEMENT:
“You’ll just have to wait!” — Guys. It’s like five something AM. It’s been a crazy, wonderful week. Everyone is transparent by now, either desperately trying to hold on to the memories or wisdom or mood or atmosphere or feeling or whatever…
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Dazed, Derived, Darkness & Dancing
So far I’ve had pretty good luck this Airwaves. Every night I’ve been to has been cohesively programmed and well planned. Having carefully studied the schedule for days and days before the festival, I knew this was an anomaly I would have…
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Dance Dance Resolution
Saturday was my night to cut a rug. I resolved to do so while drinking… heavily, but responsibly! 20:00 Tonik Understandably, these boys had a tall order to fill – first group of the night, playing to a crowd of about fifty apparently…
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Crack Sounds
It is pretty safe to say that Gunslinger is probably the most interesting thing to ever come out of Egilsstaðir. But they might also be the most interesting band in Icelandic hard-core. Their music consists of fantastically arranged blend of brutal, technical…
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Good Work, Everyone!
Arriving early to something in Iceland is almost taboo. If it’s a dinner party, the host may find you rude, and if it’s a concert or other party, you may very well find that nobody else is there. That’s just the way…
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The Good, the Bad and the Shemales
If during the whirlwind of weird that was the band’s thirty-some minutes on stage I had had a moment to do anything besides stare incredulously, I would have undoubtedly heard the song Mama Told Me (Not to Come) playing somewhere in the…