Reykjavík Grapevine - 11.10.2013, Page 47

Two Weeks
The Grapevine picks the events, places and what to experience in the next two weeks
Reykjavík Map Happy Hour Guide Places We Like Best Of Reykjavík Practical Info
Reykjavík October 11 - November 7 Keep it in your pocket
IN YOUR
POCKET
25-Years-Later, Not Stale
Sugarcubes Found
WHAT'S
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SOUVENIR SHOP
SHOP OF THE YEAR 2012
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Hafnarstræti 1 - 3 · Reykjavík
Hafnarstræti 104 · Akureyri
Adalstræti 27 · Ísafjördur
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O C T - N O V
October 11 to November 11 HEY CUTIE-PIE Berlin-
based Icelandic graphic designer Sigga
Eggertsdóttir has a new show in Spark
Design, and it is called Skvís. With eight
modular posters that guests can manipulate
to form a big mural, we encourage the
creative to pay Sigga a visit. Free entry!
Singer/songwriter Svavar Knútur is returning
to Iceland off of his Germany/Switzerland/
Austria tour and he’s not miserable! He’ll
come equipped with a ukulele and has fallen
in love with a girl from Vancouver, “so sweet
she’s got his heart in a … Hoover…” but
really, he’s sounding like the lovechild of Raffi
and Nick Drake. Expect semi-sweet, angsty
folk decorated with smiles and bowties. Get
him while he’s here – if this song about a girl
in Vancouver is any indication of what’s to
come, this self-proclaimed donkeygoat might
become a Canuck. AB
Photo by Zippo Zimmermann
October 11 onwards RUN FROM THE HILLS By
now you must have heard about that big
volcanic eruption from a few years ago.
Bíó Paradís are screening documentary
ASH about the effects of the eruption on
three seperate families.

Photographer Jóhann Ágúst Hansen was
there in 1988 when The Sugarcubes held
their first concert at Hotel Iceland. Better
yet, he brought a camera. The band has, of
course, since broken up and Björk, one of the
members, has gone on to considerable fame,
but the band’s cult following remains strong.
Jóhann spent the last 25 years photographing
the world, Leonard Cohen, a Pope and Boy
George, building up the suspense for his
Sugar Cube dusties to be unveiled at Kaffi
Mokka so we can all relive Life’s Too Good
moments – Misfits mohawk and that cool silk
party shirt optional. AB
From Germany With Love
Svavar With A Smile19
O C T O B E R
Svavar Knútur 21:00
Café Rosenberg
Egill Ólafsson, of Stu!menn and
"ursaflokkurinn fame is turning sixty! Instead
of sitting at home and pretending to like the
gifts his family is giving him, he's joining up
with chilly soul-pop Moses Hightower to
deliver the show of shows. As if that wasn’t
good enough, singers Lay Low and Högni
Egilsson from Hjaltalín also join the party.
So be there and earn bragging rights for the
rest of your life! JK
60 Glorious Years
Celebrating In Style18
O C T O B E R
Egill Ólafsson & Moses Hightower 20:00
Harpa (Eldborg) 4,990 ISK
Divinity Revisited - Sugarcubes in Concert 1988
Kaffi Mokka
October 12-13 ROMANIAN CULTURAL DAYS IN
REYKJAVÍK Put on your dancing shoes, throw
back a glass of (free) plum brandy, and let
loose at Hótel Borg to the electro-Balkan
styling of Lucian Nagy Triolectric. And
once you've gotten a taste for Romanian
music, why not sample the food as well?
Head to the Nordic House on Sunday for
a free Romanian lunch and wine tasting.
October 11 to November 3 THE LANGUAGE OF
DANCE The Iceland Dance Company's
new piece in Borgarleikhúsi!, Episodes,
features older and younger generations of
dancers coming together, waiting patiently
in the shadows to be called to perform.