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The Reykjavík Grapevine
Issue 16 — 2011
Editorial | Haukur S. Magnússon
The Reykjavík GRapevine
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Contributing Writers:
Wiebke Wolter
Marc Vincenz
Atli Bollason
Haukur Már Helgason
Hermann Stefánsson
Árni Daníel Júlíusson
Hilmar Magnússon
Donald Gíslason
Magnús Sveinn Helgason
Dr. Gunni
Halldór Ingi Andrésson
Bowen Staines
Steinþór Helgi Arnsteinsson
Bob Cluness
José Ángel Hernández
Simon Zachary Chetrit
Gerður Jónsdóttir
Valur Gunnarsson
Ragnar Egilsson
Paul Fontaine
Jón Gnarr
Axel Björnsson
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IN THE ISSUE Issue 16 • 2011 • October 7 - November 3 COMPLETE CITY LISTINGS - INSIDE!+
MUSIC
FILM
ALSO MUSICBJÖRK. On Biophilia p 1 Airwaves Special
RIFF in retrospect POLITICS TRAVELReykjavik is rife with protests. So is... Wall Street? Surfing! Horsies!
So much music!
Okay guys. This is one of our totally favouritest
things about our big-ass Airwavs issue – getting
to turn our track of the issue into one BIG-ASS
COMPILATION CD for youse alls! There are so
many cool bands playing and we just can’t stop
listening to all the amazing local folks cramming
the line-up this year that we want to spread the
love and share the joy. So download this shit
right now and get excited for the party with these
amazing tunes! Yeah!!!
Hermigervill - Partýbær // Markús Bjarnason - Sweet
Nothing // Mugison - Stingum af // Samaris - Góða
tungl // Thorunn Antonia - Too Late // Sindri Eldon -
Andrea (My Heart Is An Unknown Quantity) // Miri
- Grafandi Andra // The Dandelion Seeds - Beautiful
Stranger // Legend - Sister // Skurken - Bistisbo //
Muck - Mother // Swords of Chaos - Northern Crater
// Kira Kira - WELCOME HIGH FREQUENCY SPIRITS
UNITED // Daníel Bjarnason - Processions III: Red-
handed // Ólafur Arnalds - Ljósið // Árstíðir - Ljós
í sand // Just Another Snake Cult - Friends Like A
Changing Tide // Úlfur - Black Shore // Reykjavik! -
Hellbound Heart (radio master) // IKEA SATAN - The
Ghost Of Halfway House // Snorri Helgason - Mock-
ingbird // Kalli - Nothing At All // Prinspóló - Niðrá
strönd // Sudden Weather Change - Sharp // Lay Low
- Brostinn strengur // Vigri - These Are They Eyes //
Puzzle Muteson - En Garde // Stafrænn Hákon - Glussi
// PORQUESÍ - Obvious Harmony // Tonik - Bogus
Journey // Valgeir Sigurðsson - Dreamland // Útidúr -
The Glow / Retreat // Krummi - Broken Clock // Sykur
- Shed Those Tears // Hellvar - Morcau de Gaité // Ask
The Slave - Sleep Now // Ljósvaki - Get Together //
Weapons - What I Do // Bárujárn - Þula // Gunslinger
- Stallone // Hoffman - Dirty Julie // Mammút - Fol-
low (Bang Gang cover) // Dad Rocks! -Weapons //
Valdimar - Yfirgefinn // Biggibix - Situation // Captain
Fufanu - What it takes // Gang Related - Mona // The
Heavy Experience - Bad Temper, Bloody Sun // Sin Fang
- Slow Lights // Náttfari - Sumardagurinn fyrsti
Here’s what you do:
1) Download the mix in a snappy .zip folder at
www.grapevine.is, it will be available for down-
load starting Airwaves monday, at 15:00.
2) Unzip it and burn the tracks onto a bunch of
CDs or upload them to your mp3 player.
3) You can print out the cool cover we made with
it too and get crafty with it!
4)
The Grapevine’s Big-Ass Airwaves Compi-
lation 2011!
TRACK OF THE ISSUE
Download at www.grapevine.is
TRACK
COMPILATION
OF THE ISSUE
Download at
grapevine.is
Haukur’s 48th Editorial
Kría Cycles provided the awesome
cool bikes you can see on the cover.
The ones in the center and to the left
are custom made by them! They are
a cool, innovative and grassroots DIY
company, the sort of thing we love
giving a nod to. Expect an extensive
article on them in a future issue, and do
check out their workshop at Hólmaslóð
2 and their website (www.kriacycles.
com) in the meantime!
MAN, I AM LIKE TOTALLY BEAT
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IK
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Natural hot spriNg steambaths
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relaxiNg geothermal baths
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Flúðir
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Hveragerði
Only an hour by car from Reykjavík and a short distance from
Thingvellir national park and world heritage site, nature has
created unique surroundings for a new bathing experience
– Laugarvatn FONTANA.
WE HAVE MADE A FANCY NEW WEBSITE! YOU
NEED TO GO THERE RIGHT NOW!
THE ADDRESS IS WWW.AIRWAVES.GRAPEVINE.IS
Here’s the deal. We got so excited about effing Airwaves
that we conducted a whole bunch of goddamn interviews
and wrote a shitload of articles we can’t even begin to fit
in this supplement! Are we bad at planning? YES! Are we
awesome at making stuff? YES! So we figure, INTERNET
HAS NO WORDCOUNT! So we’re publishing all that stuff
on our fancy Airwaves site, AND MORE!
Go to WWW.AIRWAVES.GRAPEVINE.IS right now for ar-
ticles, interviews, op-eds, photos, videos, festival tips, trix
and rumours as well as REVIEWS OF EVERY GODDAMN
ICELAND AIRWAVES SHOW!
REVIEWS
www.airwaves.grapevine.is
Writing this, I feel like what I look like on the ac-
companying photograph. All sweaty, tired, gross,
wet, dishevelled, happy and content. Making this
issue of Reykjavík Grapevine has been really hard
work for various reasons that I don’t care to go into
(mainly because it is super extra long! Lots of fun
stuff to read!); I am not one for complaining and I
don’t even want to complain about the experience.
It was hard and gruelling and stuff, but it was also
really, really fun, and I am pleased with the result.
And I hope you are too, dearest reader.
(But since this is an extra-long issue that was
made under some rough circumstances, there
might be one or two mistakes in there. Like typos
and stuff. And we might have forgot to publicise
your art show, and we might have had to cut that
interview with your awesome band at the last min-
ute because the layout changed unexpectedly, but
don’t worry—we’ll do it in our next issue. We love
you. You are wonderful! Please don’t get all pissy
about it).
ANYWAY. Yes. Making a magazine is some-
times like being in a rock band, not the least
because you get to spend time with some pretty
damn awesome people working in harmony to-
wards a shared goal. It is fun and everyone should
try it. And all our contributors, guys, you’re so
awesome! Group hug! Let’s form a band, shall we?
This issue has a lot of music stuff in it. This
is mainly because AIRWAVES IS UPON US once
again! And Airwaves is always a high point of the
year, a great source of pleasure and joy and fun
times and new discoveries. If you’re into that kind
of thing.
I look forward to bumping into y’all at shows,
on the way to shows and on the way from shows.
So much music, so many new visitors to get to
know, so many great people giving their every-
thing so that we may be entertained, enlightened
and thrilled.
It’s wonderful. Enjoy it!
PS – I can’t decide what I think is ridickulous-
er: people that protested vigorously two years ago
arguing that such acts are in no conceivable way
appropriate now, or people that were all outraged
about the protest two years ago trying to argue
that such acts are totally appropriate now. Quit be-
ing dumb hypocrites, y’all!
On the cover: Teitur / Ojba Rasta, Bergur / Sudden Weather
Change, Nanna / Of Monsters and Men
Photography by: Marinó Thorlacius