Archive

FM Belfast in Dublin: a review

Image by Martin Dam Kristensen

Iceland’s hottest electro-poppers are playing a show in Dublin. And so life finds me on a miserable and wet Thursday evening, in the middle of the Arthur’s Day celebrations, heading towards the only place in Dublin that does not sell Guinness: the Fringe Factory. Formerly known as Pravda, it is now being used as…
Read more

Icelandic updates

Even though we are having some kind of work-related hiatus, our favourite island and it’s quirky inhabitants are restless as usual. So, in no particular order, here are a couple of happenings from the land of ice:

First of all, Reykjavik’s biggest and best music festival, the Iceland Airwaves, have finally launched their new website. Vist and rejoice!

Speaking of…
Read more

FM Belfast, Helgi, and some angry birds

Day seven of Sonic Iceland yesterday, and the first day I did not cut myself while shaving. Maybe the liver (and connected physical) damage from the weekend has finally subsided. In any way, it was a very sunny day in Reykjavik, so we set off to our first interview with the nice people of FM Belfast in a splendid…
Read more

FM Belfast – Underwear

We’re not sure if we can pronounce the names (Lóa Hlín Hjálmtýsdóttir, Árni Rúnar Hlöðversson, Árni Vilhjálmsson and Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason) of the members of Reykjavík-based pop bastards FM Belfast’s correctly, but we swear we’ll be dancing to this song through the streets of 101 at sunset when we are there.
Wait, there won’t be that much of a…
Read more