sigur rós are playing the main stage at 5.45 on the closing day of this wonderful festival. we manage to get our way to the front in time for the start of their set. they are quite honestly mesmerising. they were the band i was looking forward to seeing most, and i wasn’t disappointed. they were absolutely beautiful. totally stunning. they leave us after just 5 songs, sadly, but we’re all totally enchanted by their atmospheric beauty. we bump into jonsi (literally, as he almost knocks my friend over) on the dancefloor later that night, and he dances with us for a while. the rest of the band are sat against the wall, but jonsi is really going for it, with some crazy dancing :)
here is what they had to say about sigur rós in the all tomorrows parties official programme. this may or may not have been written by stuart braithwaite (mogwai)
“with their third album spending some months at number one in their native iceland, it’s perhaps no surprise that these ambitious, classically minded guitar abusers have attracted sponsorship from health food stores, and the icelandic equivalent of the national grid. with frontman jonsi birgisson singing in the entirely invented language of ‘hopelandic’, accusations of nouvaeu-prog indulgence (jonsi playing his guitar with violin bow etc) are scuppered by the overwhelming beauty of it all”
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says:sigur rós are playing the main stage at 5.45 on the closing day of this wonderful festival. we manage to get our way to the front in time for the start of their set. they are quite honestly mesmerising. they were the band i was looking forward to seeing most, and i wasn’t disappointed. they were absolutely beautiful. totally stunning. they leave us after just 5 songs, sadly, but we’re all totally enchanted by their atmospheric beauty. we bump into jonsi (literally, as he almost knocks my friend over) on the dancefloor later that night, and he dances with us for a while. the rest of the band are sat against the wall, but jonsi is really going for it, with some crazy dancing :)
here is what they had to say about sigur rós in the all tomorrows parties official programme. this may or may not have been written by stuart braithwaite (mogwai)
“with their third album spending some months at number one in their native iceland, it’s perhaps no surprise that these ambitious, classically minded guitar abusers have attracted sponsorship from health food stores, and the icelandic equivalent of the national grid. with frontman jonsi birgisson singing in the entirely invented language of ‘hopelandic’, accusations of nouvaeu-prog indulgence (jonsi playing his guitar with violin bow etc) are scuppered by the overwhelming beauty of it all”
(Paul McAllister)