Reykjavík Grapevine - 06.01.2017, Page 26

Hatari
WHY HATARI WON
Best Live Performance was the first
category to reach a consensus deci-
sion. In fact, it was so quick that Ha-
tari had this award before we even
finished reading out the categories.
They may have even had it before the
category existed. “Hatari win hands
down,” the conversation began.
“They put on a real performance. It’s
performance art, you know. So pre-
tentious and it’s fucking awesome.”
The appropriateness of the award
is further driven by the fact that if
you want to hear them, you have to
see them. They have one song on-
line and they don’t have a Facebook.
Search for Hatari online and you
can hardly find anything, the panel
notes. But their lack of online pres-
ence is made up for and then some
in their live performance. “He’s
shouting at you saying, ‘You’re a
slave, you’re a slave,’ and you’re like,
‘Fuck it, yeah, I am.’ He’s calling the
crowd a bunch of dicks and we’re
lapping it up. Love it,” one panellist
said.
“It’s poetry, it’s punk, it’s electronic
with like fascist aesthetics,” anoth-
er panellist added. “It’s a real live
show, and you have to go there to
experience it.”
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