Reykjavík Grapevine - 07.10.2011, Qupperneq 70

Reykjavík Grapevine - 07.10.2011, Qupperneq 70
18 Grapevine Fancy Airwaves Special Go to www.airwaves.grapevine.is for extensive + up to date festival coverage WWW.AIRWAVES.GRAPEVINE.IS is WhERE it’s at ALL THIS, AND WAY MORE, ALL FOR YOU!!! “I think Iðnó is a really good place for us to play because now it’s not so intense, like “Waaaaahhhh!!!” Now it’s better for people to just listen and not say anything.” sudden Weather Change iðnó - sat - 01:10 “Did they turn down Slayer this year?” Úlfur iðnó - Fri - 20:00 “The sight of 40 or even 50-something year old punks playing their thirty year old stuff should normally rival any freak show. However, we have recently been headlining gigs in Reykjavík and getting serious rave reviews, so we would think it’s definitely worth the while to check us out.” Q4u amsterdam - sun - 23:00 “You need to check out the sea and the mountains. If you pay close attention, they have some pretty amazing shit to say about the relevance of culture.” K-X-p Gaukur á stöng - sat - 01:20 “When you came in there were guys in neon-yellow vests and there was smoke and they were guiding you in, and then there were two actors dressed up as security patting people down and putting alcohol into your bags instead of taking it out!”” mammút nasa - Wed - 21:40 Gaukur á stöng - sun - 00:00 “I actually just cleared out four Dollaramas in Montreal of this amazing confetti they carry, so there’s gonna be lots of confetti.” Rich aucoin nasa - sun - 00:00 “I would have to say sex and pussy. I watched the guitar player from the band Love/Hate with his shirt off in a music video and I thought to myself this guy probably gets laid.”” helgi Valur and the shemales tjarnarbíó - sat - 19:30 “Hopefully working hard and focusing on the musi- cal aspect will keep on being sufficient to make sure more people check us out and start liking us. Stadiums and heroin scandals are imminent.” Gang Related amsterdam - Fri - 19:10 With Airwaves just around the corner, it’s almost impossible not to notice the mas- sive influx of tourists that have, in one way or another, heard what Iceland is all about, and come to widen their cultural aware- ness. Whether it’s their first or tenth time visiting the island of oil drum-symphonies, kokteilsósa, and Honda CRV’s, they’re about to discover one thing—Reykjavík does, indeed, rock. Author Hallgrímur Helgason (‘101 Reykjavík’) provides a lot of the writing for the latest English-language publication that assumes to portray his home city, ‘Reykjavík Rocks.’ The coffee- table style tome is an enjoyable speed read for the Ice-interested and local alike, featuring snippets of useful and humorous facts, set against 96 pages of vibrant full-colour photos. And it’s not difficult to understand what all the fuss is about, for at a glance you can catch up ont especially important subjects like: Iceland is beautiful, Icelandic women are beautiful, Icelandic men are alright, Iceland is not Greenland, and that you’re more likely to have a blurry religious experience from too much Hlöllabátar than being attacked by a sheep. But, you know, anything could happen—and that’s the point. Reykjavík’s colourful man in charge, Jón Gnarr, is represented in the form of his ‘Welcome To Reykjavík’ column which we ran last year: “The odds of you being in Reykjavík are not great. The greatest part of mankind is elsewhere. It is scientifically proven.” Indeed, as the book suggests, you can take a person out of Breiðholt (but you cannot take Breiðholt out of a person)—and in reference to Reykjavík’s latest architectural addition that graces the old harbour, Hallgrímur jokes: “While our economy was burning, we were busy building a concert hall.” Never mind the money, Reykjavík’s got the music. ‘Reykjavík Rocks’ is an entertaining read, and lively pictorial passage into contemporary Icelandic culture. If you find yourself interested in learning more about how many Icelanders speak English better than their native tongue (nothing to talk about, really), “ash-farting” (the latest competitive sport to emerge from Iceland’s glaciers and volcanoes), Airwaves week- end as a necessary means of reproduction (it is suggested that more than half of the Icelandic population was conceived on Sunday mornings between 3 and 6), and how it’s important for each Icelander to consult www.islendingabok.is before com- mitting to a serious relationship—be sure to give ‘Reykjavík Rocks’ a glance. books | A look at ‘Reykjavík Rocks’ by Bowen Staines If NYC Is The City That Never Sleeps, Reykjavík Is The City That Just Woke Up by Hallgrimur Helgason, the author of 101 Reykjavik and some other dudes
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