The Grapevine
2005.10.30
It’s funny that I never had the opportunity to write about this great free icelandic magazine in English, The Grapevine. When we went to Reykjavík for the Airwaves festival, last year, The Grapevine was our first introduction to the festival: we found it in one of the numerous pubs and bars you’ve got on Laugavegur and I was honestly surprised by the quality of it. And by the fact that it was both free and in english… and weekly.
Since then, I regularly browse their website, where you’ll find witty articles about the Icelandic life/culture… There’s always something worth reading, even though you don’t live in Reykjavík and don’t care about the next concert that will be given at Póstbarinn or about the next exhibition that will be shown at the Gallery Listvinahúsið…
But if ever you felt like going to the Iceland Airwaves Festival (that took place last week) but couldn’t make it eventually, you’ll be interested to know that The Grapevine is publishing a long and detailed review of those 3-day concerts, in pdf format. You’ll find it here.
And that’s probably the place where you’ll find more album reviews than anywhere else on the Internet (I’m talking about icelandic albums, obviously…)
Finally, you could even be interested to read a long article about the kennitala system – Iceland’s personal identification number (see picture) – in the last issue. At least I was interested. So why not you?
