Music | Iceland Airwaves reveals line-up and venus for 2022 edition
Music | Iceland Airwaves reveals line-up and venus for 2022 edition
As we approach Autumn, the time has come again before Iceland Airwaves takes over the capital, Reykjavík.
The festival has already teased names set to appear, and now the day-by-day breakdown while the day passes are still available. Plus the lowdown on where and when for each show.
Festival goers will be able to visit the Iceland Airwaves Centre in the heart of Reykjavík-to collect wristbands,…
haimtheband: we’ve been huge fans of the north face since our very first tour, so when they asked us to partner with them we were so excited. never forget lugging our gear to our first European festival, Iceland Airwaves having the best time and staying warm in our @ thenorthface jackets. since then these jackets have been on tour with with us (as a coat blanket or pillow lol) also helps that the nuptse shape never goes out of style 🤓 if you have a story like ours tag #MoreThanAJacket so we can seeeee #ad
I think I remember from a previous meme that you're from France? My question is: have you ever traveled outside of your home country, and if so, what was your favorite place? ♥️
Hi, anon! I am indeed from France :) I’ve been lucky enough to travel outside of my home country a few times, although so far I’ve mostly been to other European countries (and once to Algeria for a wedding, which lasted four days and was absolutely beautiful but sadly I didn’t end up seeing too much of the country).
That being said I think my favorite place to visit was Iceland! I went there for a music festival called Iceland Airwaves, which is held every year in Reykjavik (this was pre-Covid). The scenery is just absolutely gorgeous and obviously completely different from anything you can see in France. One night we took a bus at midnight that took us outside of the city until there were no longer any street lights and since it wasn’t too cloudy we got lucky enough to see an aurora borealis. I don’t think I could describe it in a way that does it justice, it was like someone lit up the whole night sky, and it’s one of these things that is so magical and surreal you really have to see for yourself but I will absolutely never forget the experience.
Hello warriors! I’m a recent fan & have been going down the rabbit hole on youtube. There are so many Aurora videos & documentaries (I felt very emotional watching the HAIK one yesterday) - so I wondered if you had any favourite ones to recommend?
I’m a music therapist based in Edinburgh (Scotland) & am finding her music just so moving. It’s so emotive & healing isn’t it? Although I work with music everyday, as a way to help & connect with people, I don’t think I’ve ever listened to music that’s had this effect on me before. And it’s becoming clear that Aurora has this effect on everyone who hears her music. I wonder if there’s a space anywhere where people share their own versions of her music, or collaborate together on covers? Just some ideas I had. Sorry if this is too many questions, I’m not very good at the internet!
Really enjoying your page, keep it up! 🎶
Lissy
Hello, lovely warrior Lissy! ♥☆✧
Your message really brightened up my evening, it's so great to see professionals seeing her music as a healing tool because it really is like a warm embrace from a person who heard you on things you went through and retold the story from such a persective so that you have a sparkle of hope and don't feel completely left out with your different maybe from majority feelings... There's this feeling of self-acceptance that only her music gives through being so complicated and multi-dimentional both lyrically and sonically, just like the essense of any person on this planet...
I'm really happy to see more people getting into her way of expressing her thoughts in music and resonating so much, really, you have so many great discoveries ahead! HAIK is indeed emotional, both performance and documentary part, it's defo on my top list! I recently was asked by anonymous warrior about my favourite live performances, and, the list will be the same (all titles are clickable and lead to the mentioned video!):
Nidarosdomen Christmas concert (church, orchestra, AURORA, what else to wish for, especially when Fredrik kicked off his best solo during My Universe), the Japan concert from the end of 2020 (acoustic renditions felt fresh), Somewhere Else Festival 2020 (lights! concept!), my all-time fave live Kex Hostel in Reykjavik during Iceland Airwaves 2018 (aka the first KEXP: the best sound, the best Gentle Earthquakes, the best Forgotten Love, Vetle doing his magic all overon synths), “A Touch of the Divine” (ART), Live at St Michaelis Church / Reeperbahn Festival Hamburg (no professional recordings but chills all over from A Different Kind of Human alone), VIERLIVE live stream with Bergen Philarmonic Orchestra (she has grown so incredibly much as a vocalist since Nidarosdomen), COP26 (a huge portion of love here goes to Fredrik Svabø), and NRK P3 September last year (Magnus is the best backing vocalist for her confirmed)!
As for documetaries... "Once Aurora" will answer ALL your questions regarding her personality, tour and usual life, it's one of the most unique documentaries I've ever seen and a must-check for you, please, don't hesitate to watch! It'd be also important (also to you as a professional!) to check out Lifekeys Talks interview with her: a good insight into her childhood, influences in life and reasons to create music! "Nothing is Eternal" was a good short early documentary which holds a special sentiment to me as one of the first things I've watched while getting into her world! Also really love her small guide into happy life for Glasto 2019, so simple and so AURORA! Also really recommend "Sounds Like A Plan"podcast for getting some wisdom from her and, goodness, there are so many insightful interviews with her and this is all just off the top of my head! Also I have a special tag for the interviews [link] with many posts I stumbled ipon and articles I archived here, so, please, take a look!
As for the space where people share their own versions of her music... A lot of people do that on Instagram mostly tagging her and sometimes on TikTok, happens on YouTube too! Sometimes AURORA France [link] shares some of their favourite covers of AURORA on Sundays! Several years ago even Melbourne Indie Voices performed onstage a cover of The Seed! Also would say that AURORA herself makes wonderful covers, she really makes them in such unique and her own way, always astonishing!
Hope to hear from you here, please, do share more about your discoveries!