Nick Miners Photography

Here’s what you get if you take the essence of Ice­land Air­waves 2011 and dis­til it into a 3 and a half minute video. Thanks to Icelandic Gla­cial Water for bring­ing this to my attention.

A few shots from Ice­land, away from the Air­waves festival.

Well I just had the most insane time in Ice­land at the 2011 Ice­land Air­waves fest­ival in Reyk­javík. The pho­to­graphs are all for the 405 so please go there for day-​​by-​​day reviews of the fest­ival itself; how­ever here are some pho­tos of the many acts we saw dur­ing the cra­zi­est 5 days in Ice­land I have ever witnessed.

Tomor­row I shall be step­ping on a plane with Tim Boddy and James Can­ham from The 405 with the aim of cov­er­ing as much as pos­sible of the 2011 Ice­land Air­waves fest­ival in Reyk­javík. This fest­ival began as a one-​​night event in an aero­plane hanger in 1999 and has expan­ded to become one of the most pop­u­lar fest­ivals on the calendar.

This year the fest­ival runs from 12^th-​​16^th Octo­ber, with around 250 artists play­ing at 10 ven­ues and numer­ous off-​​venue events, often until around 4:00 in the morn­ing. Need­less to say we are all explod­ing with excite­ment at the pro­spect, and will do our best to bring you reviews and pho­to­graphs of some of the best new bands from Ice­land and bey­ond, as well as spe­cial cov­er­age of one of Björk’s Bio­philia per­form­ances in the city’s brand new opera house, Harpa.

Stay tuned for sneaky peeks at some of the pho­to­graphs, and keep an eye on the 405 for pre­views, artist inter­views and live reviews through­out the festival.

The organ­isers of Ice­land Air­waves held a spe­cial event in Lon­don last night as a pre­lude to the main event in Octo­ber. Daniel Águst’s elec­tronic prac­ti­tion­ers Gus­Gus were joined by Hjaltalín’s Högni Egils­son on the stage, sup­por­ted by Denmark’s Rep­tile and Retard and their amaz­ing hair. I squeezed in next to the stage on a hot, sweaty even­ing at Brick Lane’s 93 Feet East to get these pics for The 405.