Amsterdam – Wednesday
As I sit down to accept the gauntlet of tonight’s bands, I pause to consider the price of the alcohol that is being served to me. Although we have published […]
Faktorý – Wednesday
Pétur og Úlfurinn started their set with a long minimal drone intro, later layered with smokey vocals. A solid song with minimum compositional effort but works perfectly. Sadly t
Venue – Wednesday
Venue was an excellent start into this year’s Airwaves as its first day’s programme offered – just like the festival does on a bigger scale – a wide variety of [&he
NASA – Wednesday
Funny how an artist can convince you their music is good just by the way they move to it. Premiering the festival’s (and NASA’s) lineup on Wednesday night, Eleni Tzavara [&hell
Apótekið – Wednesday
Why is it that as soon as people start to get all cocky about the weather and start going on about how long its been since it rained, the heavens […]
Risið – Thursday
Like a relaxing alternative programme Risið had a line-up that consisted of laid back singer songwriters and folk-pop bands this evening. How fitting that people could sit at tabl
Apótekið – Thursday
When you go to a music festival it is your ethical duty to do two things: 1) Check out unfamiliar music. 2) Dance. So, with the aim of killing two […]
Faktorý – Thursday
The women in the crowd were probably heart-warmed by the singer’s shirtless antics; Cities Between Us perhaps makes up for their stale, uninspired barrage of longhaired cock
Venue – Thursday
At eight, the venue is as empty as one would expect at such an early hour. A shame that Original Melody are stuck with such a shitty slot, as I […]
NASA – Thursday
I have seen the pitiless black heart of Icelandic rock music and now my life is never really going to be the same again… All things considered I only have […]
Iðnó – Thursday
Iðnó took a chill pill this Thursday night, with Biggibix, Klassart, Moddi, Moses Hightower, Lay Low and Seabear supplying the goods for a laid back night with a living room-type
Sódóma – Thursday
Dressed in black, white and red wearing gelled quiffs and bringing an upright black bass along, the 59’s lived up to their name. Forming a classical rockabilly band (lead sin
Tjarnarbíó – Thursday
On the floor beneath the stage a man began unabashedly interpreting the music with his body, stretching his arms out and down and shaking his wrists, bouncing meanwhile on his knee
Reykjavík Art Museum – Thursday
Thinking I would be late, I burst in the side door of the Reykjavík Art Museum into total emptiness. Eva from Hundreds was chilling with a cigarette, the girls from […]
Amsterdam – Thursday
Amsterdam is somewhat of a surprising venue this year. It’s the home of sleazy regulars, and reeks of beer and sweat. A place one normally never goes to, except perhaps [&hel
Apótekið – Friday
Being a performer is often ridiculous. Many venues an artist is made to perform at are all kinds of awful. But most of them are apparently heaven compared to what […]
Sódóma – Friday
As there is a notable metal scene in Iceland it makes sense, that this genre gets an adequate place in the line-up of the country’s most popular music festival. This [&hellip
Faktorý – Friday
Well what a difference a year makes. Grand Rokk, a place where hope and good music went to die is no more. Instead, like a phoenix from the ashes, we […]
Venue – Friday
Moshi Moshi Records is a London-based indie label, which is responsible for releases of Bloc Party and Florence & The Machine, to name a few. Rabbi Bananas The “only skweee [
Tjarnarbíó – Friday
Emo-Hip Hop Two men on stage and no more than twenty people in the audience, this is how Friday night at Tjarnarbíó started. The name Epic Rain may suggest an […]
Iðnó – Friday
The evening started with a quiet, laid-back atmosphere at beautiful Iðnó when girl trio My Bubba And Mi took the stage. The slowly growing crowd took their seats on the […