Of Monsters and Men

Iceland Airwaves: Thursday – A Clash Magazine perspective

Words by Matthew Bennett & Joe Zadeh. Photo by Birta Rán. As Anglo-metropolitan muppets, our start in Iceland couldn’t have been much more of a birth of fire. Or more aptly; wind. Fierce wind that could slice your face l...

by Rebecca Louder

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Of Monsters and Men by Magnús Elvar Jónsson

“Good Work, Gang!”

This evening Lára Rúnars gives the sense of a pop star ‘dressed down’ with a loose fitting dress and brandishing a bottle of beer. It feels good to have a native star on this large stage in a beautiful venue and s...

by Amy Liptrot

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From Iceland’s Battle of the Bands to the MTV Awards, these indie-folksters have taken the world by storm and aren’t stopping any time soon. Of Monsters and Men will play at 00:10 on Thursday at Harpa Silfurberg.

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The Night of the Meh.

The drummer from Lockerbie is wearing a Ramones t-shirt. Explain to me how that makes sense. Lockerbie play the most boring, predictable, hackneyed post-rock imaginable, and yet, there’s the drummer. Wearing a fucking Ramones...

by Sindri Eldon

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Lára Rúnars at Glaumbar by Alexander Matukhno

Glaumbar Is A Two-Faced Bastard

Glaumbar can be a very good concert venue, but it also can totally suck. On this Airwaves Friday I could see both sides of the coin. The small dancefloor in front of the stage and the huge bar in the middle of the room on the o...

by Florian Zühlke

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An Australian Presence At Airwaves

Icelandic is a strange language. It has 32 letters and many of them hurt to look at if you have a hangover. I made a lap around the island when I first arrived, but I can’t name a single place I went to. One of the towns ...

by Anna Andersen

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Mammút at Nasa, Wednesday. Photo by Rúnar Sigurjónsson

“Twee As Fuck!”

When Mammút hit their stride they feel like a force of nature, washing over their audience like crashing waves of sound. Katrína Mogensen's voice floats on the music like an arctic tern in a storm.

by Kári Tulinius

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We Used To Be Birds, But Now We’re Monsters… And Men.

Of Monsters And Men recently released their stellar debut album, 'My Head Is An Animal', songs from which you can catch playing in nearly every coffee shop and radio station in Reykjavík, for damn good reason.

by Bowen Staines

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Iceland Airwaves: Thursday – A Clash Magazine perspective

“Good Work, Gang!”