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/
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.
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
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.
UPDATE: Just Another Snake Cult is now playing THREE shows on Menningarnótt (“Culture Night” / Saturday, Aug. 20). Lots of exciting changes with the band. I’m pleased to announce that we’ve just snagged Túmi, sax player from The Heavy Experience, and he will be making his debut with the band on Saturday. Lára continues on cello, Beggi on bass. Our keyboardist, Áa, has returned from California, but may not be in town on Saturday. Linus is now on electric guitar and I’ve switched to the acoustic. AND! Ási, who plays in a number of bands, including Muck and Markús and the Diversion Sessions, is our new drummer and will also be making his debut with the band on Saturday. We’ve been rehearsing and I’m excited by how things are coming together!
Catch us at the following shows:
Bar 11 (outdoors)
14:00 – 17:00
??:?? – Lockerbie
??:?? - Berndsen
15:30 – Just Another Snake Cult
??:?? – Vintage Caravan
Kex Hostel & Kimi Records
On Reykjavik Culture night, 20th of August from 14:00 to 18:00Sæmundur goes to the pub in his fancy clothes
Food and Music Market
Art Exhibition
Cocktail hour14:15 – Sóley
15:00 – Hermigervill
16:15 – Loji
17:15 – Just Another Snake Cult
Reykjavík!/SWC Rehersal Space (Hólmaslóð 2, which is in the Grandi area and is the same building as TÞM)
Bands Reykjavík! and Sudden Weather Change open their rehearsal studio for a day of music, art and fine food. Performances by Reykjavík!, Mugison, Sudden Weather Change, Just Another Snake Cult and Ofvitarnir. Fresh fish meals courtesy of Ísafjörður’s Tjöruhúsið and an art show by acclaimed painter Ísak Óli Sævarsson. Kimi Records will host a discount market of music as well. No entry fee.
15:00—Market and exhibit open
19:00—Concerts commence
23:00—Fireworks exhibit at the harbour
This tour is going great! In case you don’t read my blog all the time, here’s what’s going on with me: I flew out to Seattle to play keyboards in a band called iji on a 5 week tour of the US. Since the members of iji were also my backing band on tour last October we’re playing a couple Just Another Snake Cult songs at the shows as part of the iji sets.
We started tour in Vancouver, BC were we played again with Collapsing Opposites, who are really great. I’d describe them as posi-twee-pop-punk.
The next show was in Seattle. Hungry Cloud Darkening wrecked their van in the snow and therefore could not make it, which is a shame because I’ve been wanting to see them. But we did a full Just Another Snake Cult set in their place and it went over really well. Olympia was fun, and I got to see more friends.
The weather was freezing and snowing and generally miserable until we got down to California. We played in Oakland in the backyard of a giant, beautiful turn-of-the-century Victorian house. It had art nouveau wallpaper in the bathroom. Lots of sculptures in the yard. Kale and sweet potatoes on the stove. I got homesick for California. It was such a good feeling.
Santa Barbara was also a good feeling. I’m always really happy to see everybody there. We went to the beach and got sun burned. I’m looking forward to hearing recordings from Power Of Now, because the songs that were played at the show were really cool.
Tonight was our L.A. show. We played at the Smell. My past Smell experience was really rotten, but today was nice. That iji, James Rabbit, and Pangea all played at the same show was amazing. Pangea never ceases to amaze me. They burned us a copy of their latest album — really great garage rock stuff. In addition to backing me on a couple of my songs, iji backed up Mandarin Dynasty for a special guest appearance. In the car we’ve been listening to a preview of a forthcoming Mandarin Dynasty album and we’re all really excited for it.
The shows just keep getting more fun. I’m loving seeing James Rabbit play every night. They are easily one of the best bands in existence.
Here are the remaining upcoming shows:
March 9th San Diego, CA – The Park Gallery
March 10th ??
March 11th Flagstaff, AZ – Cottage House
March 12th Phoenix, AZ – The Trunkspace w/ Hello the Mind Control, French Quarter, and Feel Free
March 13th Tucson, AZ – Brutal Sun Fest at Scrappys w/Just Another Snake Cult
March 14th Santa Fe, NM
March 15th Amarillo, TX- The 806
March 16th Grapevine, TX – Pause
March 17th Houston, TX – Super Happy Fun Land
March 18th Austin, TX – ?
March 19th Austin, TX – Waterloo Cycles 12pm
March 20th Austin, TX – ?
March 21st Norman, OK – The Red Room
March 22nd Kansas City, MO – The Studded Bird w/ Mary Fortune
March 23rd Denver, CO – Yellow Feather Coffee w/ All Liver no Onions and D-Starts
March 24th Grand Junction, CO
March 25th Salt Lake City, UT – House Show
March 26th Logan, UT – The Why Sound
March 27th Missoula, MT- The Lab
March 28th Moscow, ID – Mr. Studley’s House
March 29th SPOKANE, WA
I am going on a U.S. tour — not my own, but playing keyboards with my friends in the band Iji (who are pretty much the same people as in Mega Bog, but with Zach’s songs instead of Erin’s). EDIT: I forgot to mention, but we will play some Just Another Snake Cult songs during the iji sets! Thanks Zach for pointing that out! So you will get your taste of the Seattle incarnation of Just Another Snake Cult! We’re traveling with a band I used to be in called James Rabbit. It’s going to be roughly 5 weeks on the road, covering a big loop of the west half of the United States. We’ll be in Austin during the b.s. that’s going on there in late March. And we are doing at least one Just Another Snake Cult performance along the way, at Bröötal Sun Fest 2011 in Tucson, Arizona on March 13th.
Here’s links to most of the bands on the line-up.
Check out the page for our tour for more info on that, and here’s the route:
Feb 26th Vancouver, CA – Nyala w/ Collapsing Opposites
Feb 27th Seattle, WA - Healthy Times Fun Club w/ Hungry Cloud Darkening and S. Funkee
Feb 28th Olympia, WA – House Show w/ Young Salmon
March 1st Portland, OR - The Glittr Dome w/ Orca Team
March 2nd Corvallis, OR – Stumptown Sounds w/ Brian Smith
March 3rd Chico, CA
March 4th Davis, CA – Robot Residence w/ World History
March 5th Oakland, CA – House Show Afternoon BBQ
March 6th Santa Cruz, CA – Laurel Manor w/ Ghost Puppet
March 7th Santa Barbara, CA – The Pink Mailbox w/ Power Of Now
March 8th Los Angeles, CA – The Smell w/ Pangea and Moses Campbell
March 9th San Diego, CA – The Park Gallery
March 10th Tijuana Mexico
March 11th Megabog in Tempe, AZ
March 12th Phoenix, AZ – The Trunkspace w/ Hello the Mind Control, French Quarter, and Feel Free
March 13th Tucson, AZ – Brutal Sun Fest at Scrappys
March 14th Las Cruces, NM
March 15th Amarillo, TX- The 806
March 16th Grapevine, TX – Pause
March 17th Houston, TX – Super Happy Fun Land
March 18th Austin, TX – SXSW
March 19th Austin, TX – Waterloo Cycles 12pm
March 20th Austin, TX – SXSW
March 21st Norman, OK – The Red Room
March 22nd Kansas City, MO – The Studded Bird w/ Mary Fortune
March 23rd Denver, CO – Yellow Feather Coffee w/ All Liver no Onions and D-Starts
March 24th Grand Junction, CO
March 25th Salt Lake City, UT – House Show
March 26th Logan, UT – The Why Sound
March 27th Missoula, MT
March 28th MOSCOW, ID
March 29th SPOKANE, WA
The Tin Can is:
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San Diego, CA 92101
