Reykjavík Guides
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Coffee, Concerts & Escaping Zombie Mode: Bára Gísladóttir’s Perfect Day In Reykjavík
Bára Gísladóttir is a contrabass player and composer who recently won the Léonie Sonning Talent Prize in Denmark, as well as a “Shout Out” at the last Grapevine Music Awards. “I haven’t lived in Iceland for some years,” she says, “but when…
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Korean Chicken, NFL & Plútó DJ Crew: Steinþór Helgi’s Perfect Day In Reykjavík
Steinþór Helgi is a music professional, promoter of Sónar Reykjavík, new father, and general well-known flaneur and man-about-town. Here’s how he’d spend a perfect day in Reykjavík. First thing in the morning I just had a son. He‘s only 2 months old…
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Silja Glømmi’s Perfect Day In Reykjavík: Brunch, Cats, Cooking, Vinyl
Silja Glømmi is a DJ often found spinning atmospheric tunes at various top downtown bars. Here’s how she’d spend a perfect day in Reykjavík. First thing in the morning On my perfect day, I would wake up early so I would have…
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Steinunn Jónsdóttir’s Perfect Day In Reykjavík
Steinunn Jónsdóttir is a musician in Amabadama and RVKDTR. This is how she’d spend a perfect day in Reykjavík. First thing in the morning? I wake up early feeling fresh and rested. That’s not something that happens often because I tend to…
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Kaspars Bekeris’s Perfect Day In Reykjavík: Cake, Drag, Dancing
Reykjavík-based photographer Kaspars Bekeris has worked as a TV reporter and a writer in various media for more than ten years. He started making documentary photographs to accompany his own stories, and for the last nine months has become known for his…
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Allie Doersch’s Perfect Day in Reykjavík: Tea, Stick ‘n’ Pokes, Mario Kart
Allie Doersch is an artist, and the raging punk frontwoman of the band Tófa. She shared with us her perfect day, which starts with cats and ends with schadenfreude. First thing It‘s Saturday. After my cats, Mjágústa and Voffi Pizza Kistján, wake…
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Colm O’Herlihy’s Perfect Day In Reykjavík
Colm O’Herlihy is an Irishman living in Iceland, working as the manager of two top labels, Bedroom Community & Mengi Records. He’s often to be seen buzzing around downtown, typing away in the bars, venues and cafés of 101. Here he shares…
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Jóhanna Guðrún’s Perfect Day In Reykjavík
Jóhanna Guðrún is an Icelandic pop singer best known for her iconic 2008 Eurovision song ‘Is It True?’ To learn more about her, we sat down with the Hafnarfjörður resident to talk about her perfect day. If you relate to the musician,…
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Óli Dóri’s Perfect Day In Reykjavík
Óli Dóri is a Grapevine music columnist a downtown DJ. He’s operations manager at Bíó Paradís and a host of the Straumur radio show on x97. Read his Straumur columns here. First thing in the morning? I wake up around 9:30, and…
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Sturla Viðar Jakobsson’s Perfect Day In Reykjavík
Sturla Viðar Jakobsson is the leader of infamous black metal band Svartidauði. Here’s his perfect Reykjavík day. First thing in the morning? On my perfect day, I don’t get up because I have long since evolved past the biological need for sleep.…
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Jono Duffy’s Perfect Day In Reykjavík
Jono Duffy is Iceland’s premier gay Australian comedian—the only one actually. Here’s his perfect Reykjavík day. Breakfast? I used to live in Melbourne, which is the breakfast/brunch capital of the world, so this question puts me in a bit of a “Meryl…
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Glódís Perla Viggósdóttir’s Perfect Day In Reykjavík
Glódís Perla Viggósdóttir is a 22 year old footballer, currently living in Malmö, Sweden, and playing professionally with FC Rosengård and the Icelandic national team. “I grew up in Kópavogur,” she says, “in the lovely Fossvogsdalur. I’m studying Psychology from a distance…
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Ólafur Örn Ólafsson’s Perfect Day In Reykjavík
TV Chef Ólafur Örn Ólafsson is a well-known face on the streets of Reykjavík and has appeared as a guest judge on ‘Masterchef Ísland’. Favourite breakfast place? I may be a little biased, but my favourite breakfast place is Rosenberg, where I…
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Laufey Elíasdóttir’s Perfect Day In Reykjavík
Laufey Elíasdóttir is a musician, photographer and actress. She has appeared in a number of notable Icelandic films, including Baltasar Kormákur’s ‘White Night Wedding’, 2014 Oscar submission ‘Vonarstræti’, and last year’s ‘Reykjavík’. She is now working on a Danish film called ‘Sticks…
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Tanja Huld Levý Guðmundsdóttir’s Perfect Day In Reykjavík
Tanja Levý is a fashion and textile designer you might remember from the recent Pull Up Your Socks sportswear project. She’s about to opening a co-op design store—YPSILON—with an opening party on July 13. Here’s how Tanja would spend a perfect day…
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Alexander Jean’s Perfect Day In Reykjavík
This issue’s Perfect Day is by DJ, aesthete, student of the arts and man-about-town Alexander Jean de Fontenay. “I like listening/dancing to, learning about and collecting music,” he says. “I enjoy going out dancing and I sometimes play my records at bars…
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Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson’s Perfect Day In Reykjavík
Icelandic actor Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson is one of the leads in the Icelandic horror movie ‘Ég man þig’ (“I remember you”), now in theatres. He can also been seen in the upcoming ‘Atomic Blonde’, starring Charlize Theron. First thing in the morning:…
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Hekla Magnúsdóttir’s Perfect Day In Reykjavík
Hekla Magnúsdóttir is a well-known experimental musician whose weapon of choice is the good old Russian theremin. She won a Kraumur music award in 2014, the year her first album, ‘Hekla’, was released. In the morning I would sleep in! I have…
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Óskar Þór’s Perfect Day In Reykjavík
Oskar Þór is a sound engineer and a face-around-town, often seen playing an eclectic mash-up of music under the name DJ Z. Here, he tells us how he’d spend a perfect day in Reykjavík. First thing in the morning: There is no…
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Ása Dyradóttir’s Perfect Day In Reykjavík
Ása Dyradóttir is a musician who just moved from Reykjavík to London. Her band MAMMÚT are currently preparing to release their fourth LP, ‘Kinder Versions’, on June 23. “I’m currently in Reykjavik for a week before a US tour,” said Ása, “then…
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SiGRÚN’s Perfect Day In Reykjavík
Sigrún Jónsdóttir is a musician and composer. After touring the world in the bands of Björk, Sigur rós and Florence and the Machine, last year she released two EPs that she’s since performed live at festivals such as Sónar Reykjavík and Iceland…
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Margrét Bjarnadóttir’s Perfect Day In Reykjavík
Margrét Bjarnadóttir is a choreographer and visual artist. She recently wowed the audience at Reykjavík City Theatre with her choreographed piece “No Tomorrow,” a collaboration with artist Ragnar Kjartansson which presents a group of girls dancing ethereally whilst playing guitar. Get to…
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Anna Ásthildur’s Perfect Day In Reykjavík
Anna Ásthildur is a music professional, currently based in Berlin. “I work at Iceland Music Export marketing Icelandic music abroad, and at Ja Ja Ja Berlin showcasing new Nordic music,” she says, “and as a DJ called Sandra Bollocks, promoting myself, Sandra…