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From:
War And Uneasy Peace:
Legend Interviewed
The undeniable truth is… Iceland needs more
bands like Legend. And so do you.
Legend frontman Krummi Björgvinsson pauses
and contemplates, before sipping his beer and
continuing our conversation: “War, hate, and all
these things we end up talking about. I see it on
TV and the media everywhere. I know people
around the world who are touched by this and
it affects me. I can’t really sit down and be all
happy, happy, joy, joy cheery when I don’t think
that the world is cheery at all.”
We’re meeting at Krummi’s favourite local
haunt, Boston, to discuss his band, Legend, their
recent album and the environment whence it
sprang. Why it sounds the way it sounds. And
why we need its kind of pessimistic honesty. But
let’s start at the beginning.
We meet in the evening. Krummi takes a seat,
and I start recording. I ask him about the state of
the Legend camp these days.
“They’ve been really good,” he says. “We’ve
just been really busy setting with Artoffact, a
Canadian indie label who contacted us about
wanting to distribute the album. They’re going
to distribute the album in Canada, the US and
Europe, and we’ve been working with them on
things, such as changing the album artwork and
packaging. So we’ve been at our computers doing
all these changes and making sure everything’s
in place before it goes into production.
Go to airwaves.grapevine.is and read the
full interviews
From:
Enter The Court Of The
Caterpillarmen
Sonic space monkeys Cat-
erpillarmen are looking to
get all prunky in your face!
Ever since the release of their debut album ‘Adopt
A Monkey’ in 2009, Caterpillarmen have been one
of the quiet playmakers in the Icelandic music
scene, slowly bubbling under the radar. 2011 saw
the band crank up a gear, releasing two albums
(the self-titled ‘Caterpllarmen’, and ‘Babycum’),
while 2012 has seen their profile rise as they sup-
ported acts like Ceremony and tUnEyArDs (they
toured through Europe with the latter).
We got the lowdown from bass player
Zakarías Herman Gunnarsson on what’s been
happening in the world of Caterpillarmen.
One term often pinned to you is “prog” as
in “progressive rock.” What does that mean
to you guys, if at all? In musical terms, what
do Caterpillarmen represent?
Zakarías Hermann Gunnarsson: Yup, the
“Ye olde prog.” Um… we started out wanting to
play prog, but it’s sort of old now for us. We’re
expanding our limits, diversifying. On our new
album, you have a ballad, and we also have a sort
of single, so we’re chilling on the prog. But by
that, I mean chilling on fucking playing that genre
card, you know? I still think of us as a progressive
phenomenon. A punky, whatever thing.
Does that make sense?
Go to airwaves.grapevine.is and read the
full interviews
From:
The Insider’s Guide To
Iceland Airwaves: Nick
Knowles Edition
We got UK music management maestro, magazine
maven (and not at all scary dude judging by his
photo), NICK KNOWLES to tell y’all all about Air-
waves
On what to get at Keflavík Airport: I’m not
saying you need to have alcohol to have a good
time, BUT it would be a very good idea to stock
up on an assortment of alcoholic beverages. Al-
though drinks prices are not as much as they were
pre-2007, the Duty Free will definitely help save
some krónur.
Do you go fast or go slow?: Normal week-
ends in Reykjavik are legendary. Airwaves week-
ends are ridiculous. If you’re getting to Airwaves
on Wednesday, you’ll definitely need to pace your-
self. The first couple of days are perfect for ac-
quainting yourself with this fine city, its wonderful
musical produce, restaurants and hip fashion bou-
tiques. In the evening watch some awesome new
music, hang out, meet new people and get your
head down before two AM. If you’ve followed my
advice, by Friday you’ll still have the energy to don
your party hat for the greatest weekend of your
life.

BÁRUJÁRN
Sunday, Gamli Gaukurinn,
21:00
A rag-tag band of hippie
ne’er-do-wells doling out
gothy surf-punk tunes from even further beyond
the valley of the dolls.
DANíEL BJARNASON
Friday, Iðnó, 20:00 /
Saturday, Fríkirkjan, 20:00
(Solaris special perfor-
mance) – From conducting
to composition, this classical avant-gardist’s work
transcends the canon and his contemporaries
alike.
PRINS PÓLÓ
Wednesday, Iðnó, 22:30
/ Saturday, Reykjavík Art
Museum, 20:00 – As quirky
and cutesy-buttons as they
come, this local indie-pop supergroup of indie-
pop is all frills and fun and paper crowns
GUSGUS
Saturday, Harpa Silfurberg,
01:00
One of Iceland’s most
enduring bands, who
defined much of the local electronic scene. Their
Airwaves shows have become hard-to-get-into
spectacles of delight
MOMENTUM
Saturday, Gamli Gau-
kurinn, 02:00 / Sunday,
Amsterdam, 00:00 – Like a
fire-breathing, redbearded
dragon soaring through the sky, this bowel-shat-
tering metal band will delight and terrify.
Go to www.airwaves.grapevine.is for our super duper
on-line magazine devoted to all things Iceland Airwaves
Good news everyone! We’ve gone and made a special
website dedicated to talking about the upcoming Iceland
Airwaves festival in all sorts of ways. Yup, it’s the internet,
so there will be no limit to what we can do save for our
imagination. We can use all the fucking cuss words we
want. We can post videos. Super long interviews. Or super
short interviews. Or YouTube clips of kitties being all cute
(THERE’S an idea!).
And we’ve already begun! Harnessing the untamed forces
of two of our favourite Constant Contributors, the mighty
Rebecca ‘Louder’ Louder and Bob ‘Bobarella’ Cluness,
we’ve posted interviews with some mighty fine bands,
some pretty rad tips & trix and not a few YouTube clips.
And this is just the beginning! There will be contests! Free
beer! News! Performances! More interviews!
Make sure to go to
www.airwaves.grapevine.is right now. Bookmark that shit. And keep coming
back. We promise to make it worth y’alls while!
38 The Reykjavík GrapevineIssue 15 — 2012AIRWAVES
Introducing The Reykjavík Grapevine’s
Airwaves Journal airwaves.grapevine.is
INTER
NET
INTER
VIEWS
VIP
SHIT
ARTIST
GUIDE
We talk to a select and lovely bunch of Airwaves artists, discussing ev-
erything from their upcoming performances and albums to bathroom sex,
Russian literature, Romneycare and everything in-between.
THE INSIDER
Of course you’ll have fun at Iceland
Airwaves no matter what (so long as
you can afford to buy beer and gener-
ally like the idea of a multi-venue music
festival slash party (with an emphasis
on party)). However, a great experience
can always be enhanced with a bit of
foresight, planning and listening to your
elders. In ‘THE INSIDER,’ we get some
veteran Airwaves-goers to divulge their
tips ‘n’ trix for getting the most out of
IA2K12 and answer your very own ques-
tions (send ‘em to rebecca@grapevine.
is).
A GLIMPSE
Every year we listen to a bunch to the
scheduled artists and write up short and
(hopefully) informative descriptions of
why people should see them and what
to expect. You can read ‘em all in the
forthcoming Iceland Airwaves programme
pamphlet—or you can sneak a peek at ‘em
all on airwaves.grapevine.is.
AIRWAVES
JOURNAL
by Bob Cluness
Compiled by Haukur S Magnússon