Reykjavík Grapevine - 20.05.2016, Side 2

As the tourist season nears its peak,
Reykjavík's revelers start setting their
sights out of town. There are at least
two outdoor raves coming up this
summer. One is Taktfakt, a huge line-
up of most of Iceland's Techno lumi-
naries happening on the 4th of June,
with GusGus leading the fray, plus a
set from Detroit's leading lady of tech-
no, K-Hand. Spanning 12 hours of glo-
rious dancing in a volcanic park on the
Reykjanes peninsula, this zero-waste
event is a perfect start to the summer.
Tickets at residentadvisor.com
Then in July, Nina Kraviz' трип la-
bel is rumored to be planning another
countryside rave, allthough details are
hazy. SP
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Perhaps upset that the US presidential
election has been sucking all the oxy-
gen out of the room, Iceland decided to
step up its game. First, current Presi-
dent Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson assured
us he wasn't going to run for a sixth
term. But then he did anyway. A cou-
ple weeks later, historian Guðni Th.
Jóhannesson announced he was run-
ning, and Ólafur Ragnar's poll num-
bers started to drop like a stone. About
48 hours later, Davíð Oddsson—a kind
of political demigod of Icelandic con-
servatism—announced he was run-
ning, and everyone lost their minds.
Then Ólafur Ragnar announced he
was dropping out of the race. All this,
and we still have about six weeks
to go until election day. Hooray!

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