the red haired woman watches a woman sing. reykjavík october 2006

right! here are my photos from iceland that ive uploaded to flickr:

all of them: 2006.10 iceland

then just the music ones:
all the airwaves pics: 2006.10 airwaves
ultra mega technobandið stefán: 2006.10.18
jóhann jóhannsson: 2006.10.21

then some of the touristy ones:
gullfoss (europes second largest waterfall): 2006.10.17
þingvellir (the worlds first parliment): 2006.10.17

the first gig i saw at the iceland airwaves festival 2 weeks back was the icelandic band ultra mega technobandið stefán. in the space of about 30 minutes they rocked the venue – there was perhaps a hundred or so people there watching – about seven photographers up the front with very expensive cameras moshing along with the singer and taking thousands of pictures. the singers stripped off and was jumping around the place as his father was taping it all on video camera. the energy of the gig was just amazing.

photoset from their pravda gig on 2006.10.18: here

here are some youtube links: “cockpitter” + interview (in icelandic) + “story of a star”

they played a second gig on the sunday night in another venue – we had heard it was due to start at 0100 so we got to the venue at just before 0100 only to find out that they had started a little after 0000 – so we only got to see the last 2 minutes of (i think) cockpitter (see video above) which had four or five band members moshing in with the audience. (oh plus they are aged only 16 or something)

my photos from 2006.10.17 þingvellir, iceland. (homepage + wiki)

giant puppets in downtown reykjavík: story link : video

(bonus random image link that has nothing to do with the puppets but is beyond fantastic!)