Following September's sell out Iceland Airwaves festival preview party in London, Reykjavik Nights is pleased to announce another date in the Capital (The Luminaire, Kilburn on Wednesday 28th November) and a new event in Liverpool (The Barfly on Thursday 29th November) featuring Iceland's most exciting electro groups and more free Reyka vodka than you can shake a barbecued puffin at.
The Barfly, Liverpool on Thursday 29th November
Reykjavik Nights sponsored by Reyka vodka.
The evening's headline band, Bloodgroup, are an established name on the Icelandic live music circuit, having been formed in 2005 by ringleader Raggi along with members of his family and their friends. Together they formed a band that's gained an enviable reputation for playing "powerful and funky rock-influenced electro-dance-pop" (The Reykjavik Grapevine) at summer festivals around the world and, to top off a perfect year for the band, they've recently recorded and released their debut album 'Sticky Situation' to the acclaim of the local music press.
http://www.myspace.com/bloodgroup
Sometime, the evening's first supporting band, are the Crosby, Still, Nash & Young of Icelandic dance music. Consisting of Danni (synths & electronic drums), Diva De La Rosa (vocals) DJ Dice (turntables & fx) and Oculus (audio manipulations), four famed veterans of the vibrant Icelandic music scene, they released their debut record in October following a miraculous rise to fame in 2007. Sometime sound a little like an updated version of Kraftwerk with gorgeous vocals lashed over the sort of beats that have kept many a bar in Reykjavik bursting until dawn and they are, quite simply, one of Iceland's newest and most exciting live dance acts.
http://www.myspace.com/sometimegroup
Joining Bloodgroup and Sometime we're also delighted to welcome Reykjavik-based techno minimalist Sven Bit as the opening act.
Who is SvenBit? Who IS SvenBit? 100101 WHAT is SvenBit? 01101100? SvenBit is a non-physical hybrid, digital and analog, within the body 0110110 of a man. A man whose body 110010110 has been taken hostage by this entity, for the sole purpose of realizing his electronic dreams 11100110 of music in the physical world. Our world.
www.myspace.com/svenbit
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