The grand old men and women of Icelandic dance music apparently still have last night in their bodies.
Established in 1995 as some kind of multidisciplinary art conglomerate, GusGus have gone through more personnel changes than Fleetwood Mac and Van Halen put together, only to end up better than ever.
While you wait for their next album, Forever, coming in January 2007, here’s David, from Attention, released in 2002.
You might also want to keep an eye out for the series of concerts and DJ sessions their new label is sponsoring at Sirkus this autumn, featuring hot shit like Jimi Tenor, Múm, and Jack Schidt, as well as GusGusers Biggi Veira and President Bongo.
GusGus: MySpace | Pineapple Records | Last.fm | Wikipedia
Previously on Icelandic Music 101: Jeff Who?, Amiina, and múm.
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Went to Reykjavik for 5 days in August with my wife and absolutely loved it – have been dying to go for ages and it lived up to all expectations, best holiday ever. Have only got the Polydistortion album by GusGus (which is ace), but really liked this. Randomly met some lovely locals in Sirkus during our trip and one of the lads recommended Bogomil og Flis. Wish he hadn’t! I’ve been listening loads to that Amiina clip from last week’s post, it’s quality. By the way, this site is well good, really well written, and spot on with the tips…
Thanks for the feedback Nick — By the way, are you by any chance related to one Jack Bauer?
Unfortuntately not. He certainly is one loose cannon, a real maverick. I see that you’ve got a link to Kitty von Sometime’s site. Discovered her Iceland blog when we got back from Reykjavik and read it all the time now, so it’s good to see she’ll be writing for this blog too, ‘cos I think her posts are tops. I made a similar Nordic move last year (from London to Stockholm)…still here, and staring into the face of another 6 month winter. Must. Be. Positive.
Actually, we ran into Kiefer Sutherland at Sirkus once. He said he didn’t have time to explain and that we’d have to trust him. Thousands of lives were at stake.
And now, a small and contextually relevant commercial break: Iceland Express will be flying Stockholm to Reykjavík next summer, starting on 15 May. Sale starts this Tuesday.
Think about it Nick.
No guarantees, but we might even introduce you to Ms. von Sometime.
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