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Monthly Archives: April 2009

It came from the Blue Lagoon

Indigenous creatures with white stuff on their faces, sloshing around in hot sulphuric water filled with minerals, silica and algae? No, it’s not the plot of an old horror movie. It’s just the Blue Lagoon. The Blue Lagoon is a rather large amorphous body of water in an Icelandic lava field in the middle of [...]

28 April 2009 – 15:36 | By valgeir | Posted in Blue Lagoon, iceland | Comments (5)

Really nice foreign people who like Iceland: Mark Ollard

Meet Mark Ollard, a busy and important Londoner who really, really, really likes Icelandic music (except maybe Páll Óskar). He also thinks Mugison isn’t cute. In the first of our series of interviews with Really Nice Foreign People Who Really Like Iceland, we talk to the lovely Mark Ollard. Mark writes a rather good “music [...]

15 April 2009 – 7:09 | By valgeir | Posted in 12 tónar, iceland airwaves, Icelandic bands, icelandic music, jeff who?, mugison, music, My Summer as a Salvation Soldier, prikið, Retro Stefson, reykjavik | Comments (2)