Reykjavík Grapevine - 23.07.2004, Blaðsíða 27

Auglýsing Auglýsing
Nasa: Soulband Straumar & Stefán
Ari í Ögri: Troubadour duet Halli & Kalli
Dubliners: Vinir Adolfs
TUESDAY
JULY 27
Prikið: DJ Daði
Dubliners: Th Fitzgerald
Nelly´s: Troubadour Night
WEDNESDAY
JULY 28
Prikið: 21:00 Singer Páll Rósinkrans, frontman of
band Jet Black Joe does a few numbers.
Dillon: 22:00 DJ Sunboy from NYC
Grand Rokk: Bands Atómsstöðin, Hoffman,
Dáðadrengir and Amos
Kaffibarinn: DJ Benni
Kaffi List: Jazz jam session, go join the band
Café Culture: Tango Night
Nelly´s: Troubadour Night
Dubliners: Troubadour Tryggvanoff
THURSDAY
JULY 29
Café Victor: 1664 Night
Kaffi List: Band Úlpa plays
Kaffi Reykjavík: Cabaret and lunch night
Sirkus: DJ Chuck
Prikið: DJ Jói
Kaffibarinn: DJ Kári, reggae night
Amsterdam: DJ’s and drunk people
Café Sólon: DJ’s Tommi white & Andrés
Kapital: Live Music, covers
Café Rósenberg: Smokey Bay Blues band; front
man Mick Pollock is presenting his new album here
with a band. Mick was member of famous punk
band Utangarðsmenn, and is one of the guys who
brought punk to Iceland. We thank him and hope
others do by showing up!
Dillon: Surprise night
De Palace: THE Gig, various live bands, no covers
Hverfisbar: Troubadour duet Bítlarnir
Nelly´s: Troubadour Night
Dubliners: Troubadour Tryggvanoff
FRIDAY
JULY 30
Glaumbar: 01:00 DJ Þór Bæring
Prikið: 21:00 Búðarbandið, 23:00 DJ KGB
Mojito Club: 23:00: Launch Music
Gaukur á Stöng: Disco Night
Hverfisbar: DJ Andri
Café Victor: DJ DeeJay disc jokes
Dillon: DJ Eiki
Kaffibarinn: DJ Gísli Galdur
Nasa: DJ Ísi
Sirkus: DJ Jón Atli
Felix: DJ Kiddi Bigfoot
Nelly´s: DJ Nonni 900
Jón Forseti: DJ Party & Dance
Café Sólon: DJ Svali
Thorvaldsen bar: DJ Daddi & Hlynur Mastermix
Kaffi List: DJ’s play fun stuff
Celtic Cross: Downstairs: Band 3Some
Upstairs: Troubadour plays songs by request
Ari í Ögri: Duet Acoustics, ask for BeeGee’s
De Boomkikker: Heavy Metal DJ’s
Café Rósenberg: Jazz Band Miles from nowhere
Grand Rokk: Patient Zero
Kapital: R&B, Disco, Dance, HipHop. DJ’s Bjarki
Batman, Valdi and Gummi Gonzales
Café Culture: Salsa Night
Dubliners: Troubadours Bjarni and Ingi
De Palace: Various DJ’s
SATURDAY
JULY 31
Glaumbar: 01:00 DJ Þór Bæring
Mojito Club: 23:00: Launch Music
Gaukur á Stöng: Disco Night
Felix: DJ Andri
Café Culture: DJ Bobby K
Café Victor: DJ DeeJay disc jokes
Sirkus: DJ Gísli Galdur
Nasa: DJ Ísi
Prikið: DJ Jói
Kaffibarinn: DJ KGB
Hverfisbar: DJ Kiddi Bigfoot
Nelly´s: DJ Nonni 900
Jón Forseti: DJ Party & Dance
Café Sólon: DJ Svali
Pravda Barinn: DJ Tommi
Thorvaldsen bar: DJ Daddi & Hlynur Mastermix
Celtic Cross: Downstairs: Band 3Some
Upstairs: Troubadour plays songs by request
Ari í Ögri: Duet Acoustics, ask for BeeGee’s
songs. Pref. Staying Alive
De Boomkikker: Heavy Metal DJ’s
Kapital: R&B, Disco, Dance, HipHop. DJ’s Bjarki
Batman, Valdi and Gummi Gonzales
Sirkus: Sirkus Flea Market, see picks for details
Dubliners: Troubadours Bjarni and Ingi
De Palace: Various DJ’s
Dillon: DJ Andrea Jónsdóttir, Grandmother of Ice-
landic Rock n Roll
SUNDAY
AUGUST 1
Glaumbar: 01:00 DJ Þór Bæring
Mojito Club: 23:00: Launch Music
Dubliners: B.T. And The Russians
Kaffi Reykjavík: Cabaret and lunch night
Gaukur á Stöng: Coverband Kung Fu
Felix: DJ Andri
Kaffibarinn: DJ Benni
Hverfisbar: DJ Benni
Café Victor: DJ DeeJay disc jokes
Prikið: DJ Gísli Galdur
Nelly´s: DJ Nonni 900
Jón Forseti: DJ Party & Dance
Nasa: DJ SASHA, see picks for details
Café Sólon: DJ Svali
Pravda Barinn: DJ Tommi
Amsterdam: DJ’s and drunk people
Thorvaldsen bar: DJ Daddi & Hlynur Mastermix
Celtic Cross: Downstairs: Band 3Some
Upstairs: Troubadour plays songs by request
Sirkus: Heavy drinking, need we explain?
De Boomkikker: Heavy Metal DJ’s
Kapital: R&B, Disco, Dance, HipHop. DJ’s Bjarki
Batman, Valdi and Gummi Gonzales
De Palace: Various DJ’s
MONDAY
AUGUST 2
Thorvaldsen bar: DJ Daddi & Hlynur Mastermix
Celtic Cross: Downstairs: Band 3Some
Upstairs: Troubadour plays songs by request
Dubliners: Troubadour Ingvar Valgeirsson
Nelly´s: Troubadour Night
Music and nightlife events usually start around
21:00, unless otherwise stated. Pubs close at
01.00 on weekdays and much, much later on
weekends. For those just wanting to party, the
pubs and clubs don´t get crowded until after
midnight on weekends, although Thursday is a
semi-official night out.
FRIDAY
JULY 23
Glaumbar: 09:00 Ex many things, among them
ex-convict Árni Johnsen sings and plays guitar
01:00 DJ Þór Bæring
Prikið: 21:00 Búðarbandið
23:00 DJ Kári
De Palace: 21:00 Live gig. See picks for details
Dillon: 23:00 Band Dikta
Mojito Club: 23:00: Launch Music
Felix: DJ Andri
Hressó: DJ Atli Partycop
Hverfisbar: DJ Benni
Café Victor: DJ DeeJay disc jokes
Nasa: DJ Ísi, free entrance for the first 200
Sirkus: DJ Maggi Lego from band GUS GUS
Nelly´s: DJ Nonni 900
Kaffibarinn: DJ Raggi
Vegamót: DJ Sóley
Amsterdam: DJ Steini
Café Sólon: DJ Þröstur 3000
Thorvaldsen bar: DJ Daddi & Hlynur Mastermix
Pravda Barinn: DJ’s E&E CREW, two hot blond
chicks take care of the music
Kaffi List: DJ’s Palli & Biggi from band MAUS
Celtic Cross: Downstairs: Band Spilafíklarnir
Upstairs: Troubadour plays songs by request
De Boomkikker: Heavy Metal DJ’s
Café Rósenberg: Jazz band Mogadon play jazz
Gaukur á Stöng: Coverband Oxford.
Kapital: R&B, Disco, Dance, HipHop. DJ’s Bjarki
Batman, Valdi and Gummi Gonzales
Café Culture: Salsa Night
Ari í Ögri: Troubadour duet Halli & Kalli
Dubliners: Vinir Adólfs
Miðbar: Young musicians, armed with a piano,
guitar and a horn, play some music
Jón Forseti: DJ Party & Dance
SATURDAY
JULY 24
Jómfrúin: 16:00 Jazz band, see picks for details.
Glaumbar: 23:00 Troubadour Ari & Gunni
01:00 DJ Þór Bæring
Mojito Club: 23:00: Launch Music
Grand Rokk: Bands; Úlpa & Lokbrá
Gaukur á Stöng: Coverband Land & Synir plays.
Dillon: DJ Andrea Jónsdóttir, grandmother of Ice-
landic rock ‘n roll
Hverfisbar: Dj Andri
Hressó: DJ Atli Partycop
Café Victor: DJ DeeJay disc jokes
Felix: DJ Doktorinn
Prikið: DJ Gísli Galdur
Kaffi List: DJ Heiða
Kaffibarinn: DJ Kári
Sirkus: DJ KGB
Café Culture: DJ Luis
Nelly´s: DJ Nonni 900
Pravda Barinn: DJ Tommi & DJ Don Balli Funk
Vegamót: DJ Tommi White & MC Maggi Jóns
Café Sólon: DJ Þröstur 3000
Thorvaldsen bar: DJ & Hlynur Mastermix
De Palace: DJ’s Exos and Thor
Celtic Cross: Downstairs: Band Spilafíklarnir
Upstairs: Troubadour plays songs by request
De Boomkikker: Heavy Metal DJ’s
Café Rósenberg: Jazz band Mogadon play jazz
Kapital: R&B, Disco, Dance, HipHop. DJ’s Bjarki
Batman, Valdi and Gummi Gonzales
Amsterdam: Rock cover band 101
Miðbar: Sigurjón plays the piano
TUESDAY
AUGUST 3
Prikið: DJ Daði
Thorvaldsen bar: DJ Daddi & Hlynur Mastermix
Celtic Cross: Downstairs: Band 3Some
Upstairs: Troubadour plays songs by request
Dubliners: Troubadour Th Fitzgerald
WEDNESDAY
AUGUST 4
Kaffibarinn: DJ Gísli Galdur
Thorvaldsen bar: DJ Daddi & Hlynur Mastermix
Celtic Cross: Downstairs: Band 3Some
Upstairs: Troubadour plays songs by request
Dillon: Electro band Anonymous, members are
Tanja and Marlon Pollock, they just released a
new album and will play Airwaves this fall.
Grand Rokk: Jazz from Hell
Kaffi List: Jazz jam session, feel free to join in...
Café Culture: Tango Night
Dubliners: Troubadour BT Kassavisky
Nelly´s: Troubadour Night
“All OVER 101 Reykjavík”: The one and only,
the famous great beloved half of Terror Disco
a.k.a. El Toro Disco DJ Fashionably Laid a.k.a
Grapevine finest, one sixth of the spectacular Six
is 25 years old today. Hörður will be celebrating
his birthday by drinking endless pints of beer in
perfect harmony with massive amounts of strong
booze. The celebration will take part in, around
and on top of the Reykjavík’s best bars, among
them the infamous “Nikka Bar”. This event will be
sponsored by ÁTVR.
THURSDAY
AUGUST 5
Café Victor: 1664 Night
Kaffi Reykjavík: Cabaret and lunch night
Kaffibarinn: DJ Frosti from band KLINK
Prikið: DJ Sóley
Dillon: Funk night with DJ Freysi
Klink og bank artist workplace: Klink and
Bank’s Kitchen Motors gig
Kapital: Live Music, covers
De Palace: THE GIG, various live bands, no
covers
Dubliners: Troubadour BT Kassavisky
Hverfisbar: Troubadour duet Bítlarnir
LISTINGS : july 23 - august 5NIGHTLIFEMUSICand
Finding everything you lost on the way
by Sindri Eldon
I sailed past the monstrous bouncers with celebrity suave and
straight into the lobby. After overcoming my initial relief (I was
underage and had no fake ID), I looked around me as I waited
patiently in the ticket line and studied the place admiringly. The least
understood, or at least the most misunderstood place, in Reykjavík.
“I don´t get Nasa,” people would tell
me. “That place gives me the creeps.”
But Nasa didn´t worry me at all.
You see, any question you can ever
have about the place´s admittedly
mysterious nature can be answered
with cocaine.
“How did they get the financing?”
“Cocaine.”
“When did this place become
popular?
“The same time cocaine became
popular.”
“How do they get all those bands
to play there?”
“Cocaine.”
“What else goes on in that place
anyway?”
“Cocaine deals.”
“Where are the fucking bath
rooms?”
“Where you do the cocaine.”
I said my name to the woman
at the desk, a weathered fortyish
thing who looked bored out of her
skull, and she let me in. Wow, I
thought, President Bongo actually
came through. After my short stint
in the music industry, I had picked
up several “golden rules”, and one
of them was Never Trust A Man In
A Techno Band. Rules, apparently,
were made to be broken.
The ultimate niggaz
And then, from behind the mixing
desk, I saw it happen. I have no idea
how or why I didn´t know this was
going to happen. And at a GusGus
show it was so underlying, so un-
avoidable, just so goddamn inevitable
that it seemed like everyone knew it.
A woman started dancing. And
not the usual hey-I-kind-of-like-
this-song kind of hip gyrating that
usually accompanied some bimbo´s
second Breezer, but a wild strut that
went all over the floor, the kind of
hot-blooded pouncing moves that
could only be made to a staggeringly
cold and rhythmic electronic beat.
And it did not take long for others to
follow her example.
I spotted a foreigner, that despite
his sarcastic comment to a friend,
had a glint of recognition in his eye.
There were acts like this all over
Europe, and everyone wanted to be
them. They were the club´s ultimate
niggaz; the ultimate shining exam-
ples of revolutionary non-conformity
that sees an inevitable transforma-
tion from ridicule to admiration.
In the end it all became so incred-
ibly appealing to mix it with these
freedom fighters that I jumped right
into the fray, ripping off my army
surplus jacket and exposing a violet
hawaiian shirt I bought in Japan
a year ago. And as I swayed there
with them, I closed my eyes and
drifted away to something surprising,
something so completely serene that
I wasn´t even there any more.
And she appears in a stained
wedding dress...
In the time it took me to fantasize,
the dance-floor had turned into
an insane jumble of sweat-soaked
corpses bouncing unstoppably to the
DJ’s beat. A slobbering drunkard
started clawing at my leg and beg-
ging me for “some coke, or speed, or
anything - please, I just don´t want
to stop dancing!”
I booted him off and went back to
our table, and as I sat there waiting,
the band came onstage.
“Hi. We are Gus Gus, and we´re
going to play some old songs, possi-
bly mixed with some new ones. We´ll
call it a dance rehearsal,” President
Bongo said, brandishing a cowboy
hat and his trademark suit. Behind
him, the two masterminds behind
the music, Biggi Virus and Buck-
master De La Cruz, immediately
commence much button-pushing to
magically bring the good stuff into
existence. At first I thought Earth,
the band´s freshman, was going to
be a no-show, but then she suddenly
appeared in a stained wedding dress,
elicting much cheering from the
crowd.
If the audience had already
become an ecstasy-riddled scene
from Ibiza Uncovered, the band had
mutated them into a single pulsating
organism, throbbing to their techno
like a dying, beached whale, shud-
dering while struggling to take it´s
last breath.
I felt stoned, but alright. And
from the looks of it, that was how
everyone else felt: Like this was
the greatest thing they would ever
do, like nothing would ever matter
again, and like the end of the road
was not where you had to stop and
get out of the car but a place where
you could finally rest, dream and
hope that driving back down the
road, you find everything you lost on
your way there.
H
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