We’re playing this super nice show next Thursday. This is your last chance to catch Just Another Snake Cult perform in Iceland for a while.
Both Snorri Helgason and Nolo have recently put out great new albums.
Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/events/305036292866629/
We’ll be doing a special acoustic performance on Wednesday night at Reykjavik Backpackers on Laugavegur. Also performing will be a band called Porquesi. Come grab some CDs and shirts to give as xmas presents. We go on at 21:00. Porquesi at 22:00.
Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/events/342798192401092/
Just Another Klikk Cult is brutal and heavy.
Here’s the Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/events/334289973264249/
Channeling some holiday vibes on this new track. Stream it and optionally buy it from your choice of…
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We will doing an acoustic performance tomorrow (November 26, 2011) at 7PM for the closing of the exhibition of Jolanda Todt’s book Home – A House and Its Inhabitants at Útúrdúr on Hvervisgata in downtown Reykjavik.
A new track in my newsletter / evolving album, Experiments in Bedroom Pop, is now out. For those interested in those kinds of things, right this way.
Yes, you read that right. That newly erected palace of decadence, with its chic view of the surrounding maritime decay, that play-place of bankrupting bankers and lumpenbourgeoisie, the best building built for the best people in the best country in the world — the Harpa — will be having us for one evening and one evening only!
When: Friday, October 28, 2011 — show starts at 5:30PM sharp!
Where: Harpa Kaldalón
Who: Just Another Snake Cult and Sykur
What: The debut of a new concert series presented by Harpa and 12 Tónar entitled Undiraldan (Undercurrents)
Cost: Free of charge!
Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=296013653749654
The experience of missed opportunities has taught me one of the most valuable lessons — to not put things off, to embrace the chaos of going head first into experiences because we have but such a narrow window. (Which is of course easier said than done.) It’s the rare things–the ones you must actively strive most for–that are the most rich.
When I think about the internet today, with its widespread free and seemingly-eternal availability of music, we lose that sense of value. Like anything readily available at little cost or effort it’s so easily taken for granted, and the appreciation is much different, much shallower, and much more about our own pleasure than any sort of rich relationship.
I had that in mind when I released the Ghosts EP as a “temporal release”—one that it came with an unspecified expiration date. Well, that date has come, and Ghosts is quietly disappearing from the internet. If you jumped on the opportunity to downoad it (a very simple act usually taken for granted) you can now appreciate being one of the few people who can listen to songs like City Lights and Turning Into Mud.
Birds Carried Your Song Through the Night is available on a cassette tape from Wizards of the Ghost. I Know She Does and Engaged Withdrawal are still available as the I Know She Does single (but no longer free of charge).
This year we are performing once again at the Iceland Airwaves festival. Our schedule has turned out pretty hectic! Looking forward to an extended weekend of lugging our instruments in the frosty rain all over downtown. I’m not kidding. This is going to be so much fun.
To kick things off, we’re playing on Wed, Oct. 12 at 5PM at the Kimi Records/KEXP off-venue showcase at KEX Hostel. This will be broadcast live by KEXP, both on the air in Seattle and streaming on their website. So no matter where you are, you can listen! (5PM in Iceland is 10AM on the US west coast.) RSVP to the Facebook event invite to remind yourself. Other bands playing this show include Gus Gus, Samaris, and Retro Stefson. Worth checking out!
Later that evening at 7:30PM we head over to Barabara, which is Reykjavík’s only gay bar. Like all off-venue shows (with the exception maybe of the Vesterbæjarlaug swimming pool shows?) entrance is free.
The next day, Thur, Oct. 13 at 9:30PM (was 10PM), perfectly timed for you to catch us while on your way out the door to some hot on-venue events, we close up the line-up at the Reykjavík Backpackers hostel.
Come Friday, Oct. 14 we will be playing at 4:30PM at Kaffistofan, which is a cool student-related art gallery at Hverfisgata 44 (one street down from the main drag, Laugavegur).
And then, if you can manage to stay up past midnight, at 1:10PM Friday night (technically Saturday morning) we play our on-venue show at Amstersdam.
Then on Sunday perhaps you’ll find us performing somewhere strange and spontaneous as we galavant around the city with a film crew from La Blogothèque.
Summary:
Stay tuned — having spent the time checking out almost every single band listed as playing the festival, I’ll shortly be posting a guide to some of my personal highlights. Follow via facebook, twitter, tumblr, or rss.
The second edition of my MP3 series, Experiments in Bedroom Pop, just came out. Join up if you want to get it!
