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Day 21/100 - Heading Home

Day 21/100 – Heading Home

This was oringially entitled ‘a couple of hours in Reykjavik’ however we didn’t end up having a couple of hours wandering as usual. Our plan of leaving our apartment to do our traditional last-day-in-reykjavik-enourmous-breakfast at Prikid, was scuppered in part by tiredness and hangovers and also booking onto an earlier bus home than usual (airport disaster last year made me cautious), so we…

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Day 4 of #Airwaves18

Day 4 of #Airwaves18

Day 20/100 – well it seems my challenge has failed somewhat. I could’ve sworn I posted my day 4 review but as this was empty I guess not and in case you couldn’t tell, post holiday fatigue set in and stayed in. I’ve had a super busy week at work and this weekend had family staying so no real time to blog and now all that excitement is catching up with me and I’m coming down with a cold. But, I’ll…

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Day 19/100 - Day 3 #Airwaves18

Day 19/100 – Day 3 #Airwaves18

Day 3 was a slow starter, feeling slightly hungover and very tired we started the day with a traditional swim at Vesturbærslaug, if you can call lying around in a hot tub swimming! We were pleased to find that the HagaVagninn was back in business and enjoyed a post swim burger – served by none other than Emmsjé Gauti, a rapper who will be performing at airwaves on Saturday night.

After a wander…

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Day 18/100 - Day 2 #Airwaves18

Day 18/100 – Day 2 #Airwaves18

Well today started early! Given that in past years off-venue usually starts around lunch time, we’d planned our music walking tour of Reykjavik by 12 Tonarin order to not miss any bands. It turns out we could’ve opted for a early afternoon slot instead of the 10:30 one we chose – however it turned out to be a good choice as for a start there were only 4 of us being taken around the city by Larus,…

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Day 17/100 - Aka Day 1 #Airwaves18

Day 17/100 – Aka Day 1 #Airwaves18

Well we made it, I’d say despite sitting on the tarmac at Heathrow for an additional 30 plus minutes it’s one of the smoothest journeys we’ve ever done, no doubt due to lack of hold luggage. We were in Reykjavik before 5pm and (despite google maps giving us the run around) managed to get to city hall for our wristbands and goody bags AND bonús and to find our accommodation by 6pm At which point…

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Even more Airwaves picks part 2..

Even more Airwaves picks part 2..

  part two mostly because I’m doing an 100 day blog challenge and need an extra post and I’m tired – I know, cheating myself! but here goes, 6-10 of my ‘bands I haven’t seen before but really want to’

6. Blaskjár

  7. Eivør

  8. Febrúar

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Even more Airwaves picks

Even more Airwaves picks

Whilst my previous recommendations have been based on bands I’ve seen before and enjoyed. This list in 2 parts is conceived of bands I’ve been listening to since the final line-up announcement in August. I can proudly confirm I’ve now listened to every artist (who has an online precence which is almost all of the 240 performing at Airwaves over the 4 days).

My top 5 I’m hoping to see (because…

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Day 14 - More Airwaves recommendations

Day 14 - More #Airwaves18 recommendations ft #unastef #úlfurúlfur #rythmatik

Still playing catch up with my blog challenge but hey ho. Time to get things rolling – some more recommendations from me. I’ve actually still got about 20 bands still to listen to, out of the 240 artists, and with only 2 days left to go that’s going to take some determination.

Una Stef Off-venue, 2017

Una Stef, is commonly referred to as the Icelandic Alicia Keys, so common I think you’ll…

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