Icelandic music concert
Last night a few friends from rez and I went to a concert downtown at Grand Rökk, a pub type place. There were 4 sets. The first was a boy, who I think was like 12 years old, playing guitar and singing icelandic folk type music. He was really good actually and a few songs other people in the bar were singing along too.
The second band was two guys singing and had the music playing off their laptop. They were punk and sounded a little like the pixies (probably a bad way of describing them). Most of the songs they sang were in english.
The next guy, I think was from Japan, and he was using samples on a synthesizer, really weird music, mostly noises, but in the middle he was playing amazing grace on bagpipes, which was cool and then the song turned into completely electronic sounds and another guy joined him playing drums. At the end of the set he did a head stand on the table with his synthesizer and everything and fell over off the stage. It was crazy.
The last band there were two bassists, a drummer and some guy sleeping on the stage off to the side. There was a girl in a cap and black mask, and the other bassist was singing and had his face suran wrapped with his microphone, then he ripped holes for his mouth and eyes and looked like a scarecrow. They sang mostly icelandic but at one point they were singing an electronic version of Cocomo by the beach boys. Really nuts. Then near the end the guy sleeping got up and was singing and him and the other guy singer were suran wrapped to each other. Really weird. They also lit off smoke kind of bombs, and by the stage it was really smoky and hard to breath and the music was insanely loud as well.
After seeing that, Icelandic people must think Björk is normal. There is a thing about Icelandic that everyone wants to be unique, and so all the bands have something very different about them. It is kind of cool but definitely a lot of weird things come out of it. I definitely want to see more shows, and it would be good to see flyers so I know what the bands´ names are. Franz Ferdinand is playing tonight and a lot of friends of mine are going but was kind of too expensive for me (4750kr which is about $90 cdn). I want to save my money up for the Icelandic Airwaves festival in October, which should be neat, because there will be all icelandic bands.
It was the international students´orientation today and tonight is the party. Should be good.
sjáumst.
The second band was two guys singing and had the music playing off their laptop. They were punk and sounded a little like the pixies (probably a bad way of describing them). Most of the songs they sang were in english.
The next guy, I think was from Japan, and he was using samples on a synthesizer, really weird music, mostly noises, but in the middle he was playing amazing grace on bagpipes, which was cool and then the song turned into completely electronic sounds and another guy joined him playing drums. At the end of the set he did a head stand on the table with his synthesizer and everything and fell over off the stage. It was crazy.
The last band there were two bassists, a drummer and some guy sleeping on the stage off to the side. There was a girl in a cap and black mask, and the other bassist was singing and had his face suran wrapped with his microphone, then he ripped holes for his mouth and eyes and looked like a scarecrow. They sang mostly icelandic but at one point they were singing an electronic version of Cocomo by the beach boys. Really nuts. Then near the end the guy sleeping got up and was singing and him and the other guy singer were suran wrapped to each other. Really weird. They also lit off smoke kind of bombs, and by the stage it was really smoky and hard to breath and the music was insanely loud as well.
After seeing that, Icelandic people must think Björk is normal. There is a thing about Icelandic that everyone wants to be unique, and so all the bands have something very different about them. It is kind of cool but definitely a lot of weird things come out of it. I definitely want to see more shows, and it would be good to see flyers so I know what the bands´ names are. Franz Ferdinand is playing tonight and a lot of friends of mine are going but was kind of too expensive for me (4750kr which is about $90 cdn). I want to save my money up for the Icelandic Airwaves festival in October, which should be neat, because there will be all icelandic bands.
It was the international students´orientation today and tonight is the party. Should be good.
sjáumst.
posted by Kelly @ 6:31 PM
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