Reykjavík Grapevine - 20.10.2007, Side 19

Grand Rokk: Dark Harvest kicked of with their gui-
tarist displaying his The addition of a saxophone
from the growling singer created their own kind
of jazz-metal sludge. dexterity to the point that no
one could argue about his ability to find the g-spot.
Their set was based on tight, riff-metal, played to
a handful of enthusiastic metal heads. Cliff Clavin
followed with their branded Queens of the Stone
Age grunge rock. The crowd grew bigger and their
sound went down well with the drunken crowd.
Páll Hilmarsson
Gaukurinn: Long on theatrics, sadly short on spec-
tators, Æla gave Gaukurinnn a lesson in cross-
dressing and punk. Æla songs are short and cha-
otic bursts of bass-driven madness with shrieking
guitars and howling vocals. Something you should
see. Sveinn Birkir Björnsson
Barinn: Frost drew a devoted audience nodding
to the beat of the bass like a bunch of Lemmings,
totally drowning in the pleasant but rarely progres-
sive melodies. Mental Overdrive rather seemed like
a virtual overdrive, focussing totally on rhythm that
deaf people would jump for joy for. The crowd, too,
did enjoy it, shaking and grooving to the endlessly
same beats and thankfully changing sound effects
and -layers on top. Julika Huether
NASA: Ghostigital’s Einar Orn looked like a some-
thing of a car mechanic with a geeky electronic mu-
sic hobby. The wizard behind Ghostitgital, Icelan-
dic multi\instrumentalist ‘Curver’, stoically toyed
with heavy, undulating beats and filtered them
with what seemed to be a fleet of distortion ped-
als. Curver even filtered Einar’s voice, so that his
smooth rapping was ultimately processed into an
insectual buzzing. Chandler Fredrick
Organ: With a techno crispness, Diva De La Rosa’s
high and drifty voice brought the energetic crowd,
almost as fabulously dressed as she was, to a well
deserved groove. Nilfisk ended their hiatus from
the Reykjavík scene with a ridiculously solid set
that proved them to be of a different calibre than the
rest of the scene’s youthful crop. Playing no-non-
sense rock reminiscent of, but less congested than,
Foo Fighters, they were by far the night’s highlight.
Valgerður Þóroddsdóttir
Lídó: Computerclub will remember Airwaves as
one of the more challenging shows they’ve played.
Their drummer was arrested in Scotland on his
way to the festival. Downsized to a trio, they did
quite well, and when a random patron took the
drummer’s place in the last song, the crowd really
showed their appreciation. The Viking Giant Show
closed the night. Fronted by singer Heiðar, the
Vikings delivered their alternative-country in con-
fidence and got the few remaining souls to show
their skills on the dance floor. Steinunn Jakobs-
dóttir
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