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Parliamentary Resolution Wants To Allow Farmers to Shoot Swans On Their Land
A parliamentary resolution has been submitted that will allow farmers to kill swans on their land, and hunt geese outside the normal hunting season, to protect their farms, RÚV reports. The proposal, which was written by the Progressive Party chair and two party…
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Grumpy Swans Destroy Indian Drone
A couple of malevolent swans in the Westfjords of Iceland showed some Indian tourist that they are not to be messed with. Found footage showed a violent attack on a drone that had found itself in the wrong neighbourhood. Bergsveinn Reynisson, a…
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Swan Attacks Sheep – VIDEO
Icelanders Sigríður Línberg Runólfsdóttir and Halldór Margeir Sverrisson have taken several videos by drone of the Álftafjörður area, RÚV reports, whose name translates as “swan fjord”. Rightly so, it turns out, as the video below shows what happens when anyone gets too…
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#ATP15 Final Night Review: Muddy Lineup
If, like me, you haven’t paid attention to Pitchfork in the last few years, pickings for Saturday night could easily seem slim. Out of all of the acts on Saturday night, I only really wanted to see the Icelandic acts BÖRN and…
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ATP Saturday: Hit And Miss
There is a lot to be said about a festival that manages to maintain a mostly solid line-up until the end. My fears of ATP being front-loaded this year, with heavyweights Iggy Pop, Public Enemy and Belle & Sebastian all appearing on Thursday, were…
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All Tomorrow’s Parties Are Happening RIGHT NOW!
Currently happening for the third time (RIGHT NOW, AS YOU READ THIS!), the Keflavík edition of the ever-eclectic, always innovative All Tomorrow’s Parties festival has become a welcome mainstay in Iceland’s live music calendar. Indeed, this year’s line-up is nothing short of…
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Black Swan Couple Settle In Dyrhólaey
A couple of black swans were spotted off the coast of Dyrhólaey in south Iceland yesterday by Gunnar Þór Gunnarsson with Árstíðarferðir Tour Company and a group of tourists, reports RÚV. “I’ve never seen black swans before,” said Gunnar. “I heard about…
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Straumur On Festivals: Believe The Hype
First things first: Sónar Reykjavík at Harpa was a gigantic audiovisual explosion in dolby digital and HD vivid colors. For a three-day weekend, Harpa transformed into humongous club on an Ibiza scale. The music spanned the range from ambient to EDM and…
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ATP Music Festival Artists’ Update!
The organisers of the All Tomorrow’s Parties have announced a number of seminal artists added to their line-up.According to a statement from the organisers, amongst the foreign guests coming to our fair shores to perform are Mogwai, Slowdive, Shellac, Low, Portishead, Interpol,…
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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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UPDATE!: SWANS Trapped By Tropical Storm Sandy, Cancel Their Airwaves Gig!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! In what might be officially the worst news of the festival so far, the much anticipated performance by experimental legends SWANS has been CANCELLED! Unlike the last sudden band cancellation, this is not of their own volition and the blame lays…
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Michael Gira And The Ever-Changing Goal For Joy
Occasionally when you import music into your iTunes, it will aggravatingly insert the genre name as ‘Unclassifiable’, which just sounds so pompous and convoluted. However there are bands for which the word is the only shoe that fits and to attempt to…
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All Killer, Fuck All Filler….
Bob Cluness’ Seven Bands To Catch At Airwaves 2012! Even though it was probably the most inexplicable decision of their careers when the editorial team at the Grapevine made me music manager for the paper, they apparently gave me this title…