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Intelligent Life Outside Reykjavík Goodbye Grand Rokk • Everybody Loves Hot, Sweaty Men Grendel as an Icelander • Too Horny for Trabant Complete City Guide and Listings: Map, Info, Music, Arts and Events Issue 13 / 25 August - 8 September 2006 ISSUE THIRTEEN: AUGUST 25 – sePTEMBer 8 YEAR 4 Articles The Reykjavík Grapevine crew 66° North 06 The Upstart University Steals the Hearts of Young Iceland The Reykjavík Grapevine Bifröst earns a following, and saves a small town Vesturgata 5, 101 Reykjavík Three-layer system www.grapevine.is [email protected] Perfectly Brutal Exports 12 Published by: Fröken ehf. An interview with Hugleikur Dagsson editorial office 18 Fair Play Needs a Good Referee +354 540-3600 / [email protected] for inquiries regarding editorial content. A column by Toshiki Toma marketing office 20 We Have a Team, Now We Need Some Hooligans +354 540-3605 / [email protected] Iceland vs. Spain: August 15 for inquiries regarding advertising, marketing, distribution 66°North uses a three -layer and subscriptions. system in which every garment has a specific purpose. The user 21 The Icelandic Outlaw Sneaks into Beowulf publisher’s office can layer his clothes to match An interview with Beowulf & Grendel director Sturla Gunnarsson +354 540-3601 / [email protected] for inquiries regarding this publication. the weather conditions. the reykjavík grapevine staff The Base layer Feature Publisher: Hilmar Steinn Grétarsson / [email protected] Editor: Bart Cameron / [email protected] The innermost material absorbs Co-Editor: Sveinn Birkir Björnsson / [email protected] moisture and keeps it away from 22 The Heart of Rock in Reykjavík Waves Goodbye Marketing Director: Jón Trausti Sigurðarson / [email protected] the skin. This prevents cooling, Why Grand Rokk is closing, and what it means for us Support Manager: Oddur Óskar Kjartansson / [email protected] increases comfort and the body Art Director: Gunnar Þorvaldsson / [email protected] stays dry in difficult situations. Photographer: Óskar Hallgrímsson / [email protected] Staff Journalists: Haukur Magnússon / [email protected] The Mid-layer ssentials Steinunn Jakobsdóttir / [email protected] E Editorial Intern: Valgerður Þóroddsdóttir / [email protected] The versatile mid-layer fleece material provides most of the 34 Dining, Eating and Grubbing Sales staff: Aðalsteinn Jörundsson / [email protected] insulation and it comes in many Jón Trausti Sigurðarson / [email protected] thicknesses. Fleece clothing is Nýhil Poetry in the Grapevine: Haukur Már Helgason also ideal for everyday use. 37 Proofreader: Erika Wolfe 38 Fiction in the Grapevine Cover photo by: Gúndi The Shell One Spring near the Close of the Century by Þórarinn Eldjárn. On cover: Team Hot Pants at Mýrarbolti The outer material protects the user from the elements. These are you planning an event? do you want to tell us garments are worn over the fleece something? send a press release to: [email protected] and are rain and windproof. Music & Nightlife We are always looking for articles. The user can choose different Send your submissions to: [email protected] materials to fit every condition. Are you interested in working for the Reykjavík Grapevine (or the 36 Flexible, Greased Up Comedy Advanced, waterproof materials other way around)? contact: [email protected] Chippendales strip for Icelandic women at Broadway with good ventilation give the wearer the upper hand when You may not like it, but at least it's not sponsored. The Night Horny Electronica Lost to the Horny Countryside dealing with Icelandic weather. 40 (No articles in the Reykjavík Grapevine are pay-for articles. Trabant and Stuðmenn at Ölfushöll The opinions expressed are the writers’ own, not the advertisers’.) For more information on the three-layer system, consult our in-store staff. 44 Are You Ready to Eat Fiber!!! Printed by: Ísafoldarprentsmiðja Ltd. printing press Rodger Hodgson wows the middle-aged set of Iceland # copies: 30.101 Garments pictured The Reykjavík Grapevine can be found in: Base layer: Básar Wool shirt (100% Merlino wool), Mid-layer: Tindur fleece sweater Reykjavík, Akureyri, Egilsstaðir, Selfoss, Keflavík and at key loca- 45 The Ringleader Refuses to Fail (Polartec Windpro fleece), Shell: Glymur tions around road #1 and at all major tourist attractions and tourist jacket (eVent ventilating material). Morrissey leaves our reviewer speechless information centres. 46 Return to Form The Reykjavík Grapevine is published 18 times a year by Fröken ltd. Monthly from November through April, and bi-weekly (fortnightly) from May til October. 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Subscription inquiries: subscribe@grapevine and +354 540 3605 Outside Reykjavík 42 The Lonesome Traveller: Kerlingarfjöll Reykjavík: Kringlan, Bankastræti 5, Faxafen 12 The Truly Enchanted Landscape of the Witches’ Mountain Garðabær: Miðhraun 11 Akureyri: Glerárgata 32 Keflavík: Airport and retailers across Iceland. 48 Things You Should Do in Iceland Before You Die… Or Turn 31 www.66north.com One last trip around the Ring Road SOUR GRAPES EDITORIALS Complaints, criticism, suggestions, praise, money, anything at all: Contact [email protected] or send your mail to: The Reykjavík Grapevine, Vesturgata 5, 101 Reykjavík. All Grown Up Okay, well, for the last time, welcome to Iceland. Now to address long time readers of the are guaranteed, at the very least, to be rid of my Dear Bart, Roses on my iPod when I heard this have you guys done to deserve that If this is your first time picking up our paper, or Grapevine, the tourists who got addicted, the opinions and, even better, my God-forsaken Thanks to you and your colleagues scream followed by hard braking in summer?! your first time in Reykjavík, let me assure you open-minded locals, the immigrants, and the editorial photos, for the next two years. for the listings in Grapevine’s and a loud thump. The back of the High spots - the people and that you have just discovered a guide that will people abroad who are just curious: the Grape- The Grapevine will be no worse for my de- last issue. It sure was a helpful guide coach bus reared up momentarily the scenery (when I could see it...) enhance your visit, and your life. You’ll get noth- vine is now, officially, an institution, an odd state parture. In the past year and a half, the paper has in finding our way around Reykja- and we then came to a complete Soundtrack to the summer – Bela’s ing but honest opinions in this paper, guiding you to reach for an alternative newspaper. grown up. We now have writers, and photogra- vik although our introduction to stop. The bus had hit and run over Ticket for a train, of course. Sub- through a town and a country that isn’t all that We are no longer a paper that is based on one phers, and designers, and ways of doing things, Sirkus didn’t quite fit the descrip- a baby lamb that wandered out onto lime! easy to navigate without us. or two people’s effort, ego, or personality, we are and we have an editor with experience, patience, tion in The Grapevine… the road. The driver had the hor- Best wishes In this issue, we present a feature about the something bigger. There are a lot of people to and an established voice taking over, Sveinn On Saturday August 5th rible task of removing the carcass Peter A. Phillips loss of one of the key institutions of Reykjavík: thank for this, among them the people who start- Birkir Björnsson. -after having a great evening at while the mother sheep watched Grand Rokk. As musician and journalist Haukur ed the paper, Hilmar Grétarsson and Jón Trausti I am proud of the work I did at the Grape- Innipukinn we decided to spend on, as did everyone on the bus. Sindri Eldon did the interview with Magnússon explains, a smallish bar/chess club Sigurðarson, along with the first editor, Valur vine, with the newspaper and with our recent our last hours in Iceland at Sirkus. The travel guide, all shaken up and Studio Granda, who designed City has played a key role in shaping the remarkably Gunnarsson. In my time as editor, a few people book, but the real test of our success, which I It was about one o’clock when we nearly in tears, explained that this Hall—I thought it was an excellent competent local scene. And we are losing it in have made important contributions, especially believe we will pass with flying colours, will be arrived at the club and we were happens on a regular basis and that piece. As for the weather, I grew up in Bart Cameron, the next few weeks, to older patrons interested in our photographer, Guðmundur Freyr Vigfússon, this transition over the next few weeks. I firmly expecting quite a line but there human fatalities occur. Wisconsin. This is good weather. Glad Editor flat-screen TVs. our designer, Gunnar Þorvaldsson, and writ- believe the paper will continue to grow, the were only 4 French people waiting I really do think that laws need you found Bela. Every foreigner should As it is August, the best time for travel, we ers like Paul Nikolov, Haukur Már Helgasson, Grapevine name will get stronger, and I will be to enter. The door opened a couple to be introduced to ensure that farm buy at least three Icelandic CDs on a also present as much information as we could Þórdís Elva Þorvaldsdóttir Bachmann and Sindri forgotten, and that is the best thing an editor can of times to let people out but was animals are behind fences and not visit or consider him/herself a failure muster on places to go around Iceland.