Teen Age Riot AIRWAVES Vík Prjónsdóttir Iceland's Youngest Generation of Musicians Is Making a Name for Itself
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Look inside for your free copy of Grapevine Airwaves Mini! www.grapevine.is THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO LIFE, TRAVEL & ENTERTAINMENT IN ICELAND IN THE ISSUE Issue 16 • 2010 • October 8 - November 4 + COMPLETE CITY LISTINGS - INSIDE! ANGER POLITICS MEDIA MUSIC DESIGN Is there a revolution The Gnarr Effect How Iceland's The story of SH Draumur Turning wool into gold brewing? press totally failed - Iceland's greatest with Vík Prjónsdóttir post-punk band Teen Age Riot AIRWAVES Vík Prjónsdóttir Iceland's youngest generation of musicians is making a name for itself It's Iceland Airwaves time again! And what a time! To mark the occasion, we're making three different covers (!) for this issue, celebrating three generations of Icelandic musicians performing at the festival. This particular one is dedicated to all the up-and-coming musicians in Iceland. Pictured are members of Pascal Pinon and Endless Dark. Both bands' members are still in their teens, and both bands are already doing great things. Happy Airwaves, y'all! Look inside for your free copy of Grapevine Airwaves Mini! www.grapevine.is THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO LIFE, TRAVEL & ENTERTAINMENT IN ICELAND IN THE ISSUE Issue 16 • 2010 • October 8 - November 4 + COMPLETE CITY LISTINGS - INSIDE! ANGER POLITICS MEDIA MUSIC DESIGN Is there a revolution The Gnarr Effect How Iceland's The story of SH Draumur Turning wool into gold brewing? press totally failed - Iceland's greatest with Vík Prjónsdóttir post-punk band Remain in Light AIRWAVES Vík Prjónsdóttir The Elder Statesmen of Icelandic music keep it respectable It's Iceland Airwaves time again! And what a time! To mark the occasion, we're making three different covers (!) for this issue, celebrating three generations of Icelandic musicians performing at the festival. This particular one is meant to honour the Elder Statesmen of awesome Icelandic music, who we all revere and love. They are represented by members of HAM and Apparat Organ Quartet, two of the most excellent bands Iceland has fostered. Happy Airwaves, y'all! Look inside for your free copy of Grapevine Airwaves Mini! www.grapevine.is THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO LIFE, TRAVEL & ENTERTAINMENT IN ICELAND IN THE ISSUE Issue 16 • 2010 • October 8 - November 4 + COMPLETE CITY LISTINGS - INSIDE! ANGER POLITICS MEDIA MUSIC DESIGN Is there a revolution The Gnarr Effect How Iceland's The story of SH Draumur Turning wool into gold brewing? press totally failed - Iceland's greatest with Vík Prjónsdóttir post-punk band On top of their game, Star Power and they ain't going nowhere AIRWAVES Vík Prjónsdóttir It's Iceland Airwaves time again! And what a time! To mark the occasion, we're making three different covers (!) for this issue, celebrating three generations of Icelandic musicians performing at the festival. This particular one is meant to applaud the current pillars of the local music scene, who are represented by members of Amiina, Seabear, Sin Fang, Hjaltalín and Retro Stefson. Happy Airwaves, y'all! The Reykjavík Grapevine Issue 16 — 2010 THE REYKJAVÍK GRAPEVINE Hafnarstræti 15, 101 Reykjavík 2 www.grapevine.is [email protected] Editorial | Haukur S. Magnússon Published by Fröken ehf. www.froken.is Member of the Icelandic Travel Industry Association www.saf.is The Annual Iceland Airwaves Editorial Haukur’s 32nd editorial Printed by Landsprent ehf. in 25.000 copies. I will come right out and say it: I have been in love good time. past, or goals, no common interest, no lineage. It’s EDITOR: with the Iceland Airwaves festival ever since I was Yeah, that’s me. I like solidarity and bonding like we don’t even speak the same language. It’s Haukur S Magnússon / [email protected] JOURNALIST: a teenager. There’s just something about it. Some- and shared goals, love and fun. Those are all great like we are totally unwilling to hear one another. Anna Andersen / [email protected] thing in the air. I can’t really define it. I guess it’s things. One even wonders why us 320.000 souls EDITORIAL: +354 540 3600 / [email protected] some kind of amalgam of all the excited musicians And sadly, those are all things that have been choose to live together on this barren island, if ADVERTISING: gallivanting around town, the way Reykjavík fills all too absent from Iceland over the last two years. we are indeed so completely alienated from one +354 540 3605 / [email protected] up with new and interesting folks, the non-stop In conversation with my uncle Gummi the other another. Should we just empty the ashtrays and PUBLISHER: Hilmar Steinn Grétarsson / [email protected] barrage of excellent concert action. And all the day, we reached the conclusion that our once proud leave? Pack up our shit and try our luck elsewhere? +354 540 3601 / [email protected] drinking, too, but of course. nation was handling this whole ECONOMIC COL- Wow. That’s grim. Sorry about that. I hope I’m CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Thinking about it, I feel that maybe the Iceland LAPSE thing with as little grace as possible. There just being pessimistic. I am sure the Airwaves fes- Valur Gunnarsson Airwaves festival’s main appeal has something to is no solidarity. There are no shared, common tival and all the currency-bearing Airwaves tour- Emily Burton Ólafur Arnalds do with all the fun, love and solidarity that seems goals. There is no love. ists will inspire us to love one another once again, Rebecca Louder to permeate the air. It feels like everyone sporting There is plenty of finger-pointing in all direc- to celebrate our shared heritage and to keep on Marvin Lee Dupree those wristbands has some sort of special bond tions. There is plenty of hate and spite. There is moving forward. Egill Helgason Birkir Fjalar Viðarsson over the course of those five days. Thousands of lust for vengeance and retribution. There is an un- We really need to at this point. Marc Vincenz total strangers take over 101 Reykjavík with the bridled guarding of self-interest. PS – remember to visit our Airwaves site for Alexander Roberts Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl shared and mutual goal of experiencing as much Reading the local discourse one starts feeling your daily updates, tips, trix and reviews of every Þórður Ingi Jónsson excellent music as they can in the least amount like the nation of Iceland is comprised of several goddamn show! Haukur Viðar Alfreðsson Bogi Bjarnason of time possible. Of discovering something new, small interest groups that have absolutely nothing Sigurður Kjartan Kristinsson and reconnecting with something old. Of having a in common with one another, no shared memories Bob Cluness Ian Watson Íris Erlingsdóttir Dr. Gunni Mayor's Address | Jón Gnarr Paola Cardenas Anna Margrét Björnsson Catharine Fulton Welcome To Reykjavík EDITORIAL INTERNS: Eimear Fitzgerald / [email protected] Wiebke Wolter / [email protected] The odds of you being in Reykjavík are not great. himself has been dead for a long time: ON-LINE NewS EDITOR Paul Nikolov / [email protected] The greatest part of mankind is elsewhere. It is sci- ART DIRecTOR: entifically proven. When I was little, I would often Hörður Kristbjörnsson / [email protected] DESIGN: ask myself why I had been born in Reykjavík. Is it Does this mean that I always existed, or that Páll Hilmarsson / [email protected] a coincidence where one is born? Is it subject to I never existed and do therefore not exist now? PHOTOGRAPHER: Hörður Sveinsson / hordursveinsson.com some universal law? Did I exist in any form before That can’t be! It would mean that all our existence SALES DIRecTOR: I was born? Did I have anything to do with where was unreal and only existed in our own imagina- Aðalsteinn Jörundsson / [email protected] Guðmundur Rúnar Svansson / [email protected] I was born? Why did Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler tion. If I do not exist, then neither do you. I have DISTRIBUTION: not bear any children? Did they not try to? Can it a hard time believing that. The facts speak for [email protected] PROOFREADER: be that no child wanted them as parents? I don’t themselves. If I am not real, then how could I fly to Jim Rice know, but I do not believe in coincidence. I do not Finland, send myself a post card with a picture of PRESS RELEASES: [email protected] believe that God plays dice, especially not when Tarja Halonen, the President of Finland, fly back SUBMISSIONS INQUIRIES: [email protected] human lives are concerned. These thoughts inevi- home and welcome the mailman that brought me also said that the Moomins had always existed, SUBSCRIPTION INQUIRIES: tably lead one to consider Schrödinger's cat. He is the card? I don’t know. I am one of many Iceland- long before Tove Jansson “invented” them. The +354 540 3605 / [email protected] GENERAL INQUIRIES: probably one of the most famous cats in the world ers that believe in elves and trolls. I mainly believe Moomins are eternal, at least in books. [email protected] (maybe after Ninja Cat). Still no one knows what in Moomin elves. It is more of a certainty than a I hope these thoughts shed some light on the FOUNDERS: Hilmar Steinn Grétarsson, it was called? What was Schrödinger's cat called? belief. I have seen them and touched them. I know history of Reykjavík and its culture. I hope you en- Hörður Kristbjörnsson, Abracadabra? I don’t remember. Let’s call it Phoe- they exist. I have been to Moominworld in Naan- joy your time in Reykjavík, that you go swimming Jón Trausti Sigurðarson, Oddur Óskar Kjartansson, nix. That is a common name for cats.