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Heima means 'at home'.
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It's a bit like being on trial,
playing in Iceland.
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It's like, you know,
'What do you think?'
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Kind of nervous, because it's friends
and family, you know, in the audience,
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I think it's harder to play
for people you know.
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I found it quite interesting
playing for the Iceland people,
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because they're so judgmental.
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We had been travelling
so much around the world
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and wanted to come back
to Iceland
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and make the last concerts
here in Iceland.
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There used to be pop bands
who toured Iceland
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and had some...you know...
people came together
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and danced to the music,
but that's getting less and less.
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It seemed like something
that we had to do
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was to go around
and play the shows
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in small towns
for just the people there.
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These people are also the people
who back us up as well,
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so it was really nice.
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I guess that's sort of our idea,
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to give back, in a way.
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Space is what we have here,
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in our personal life
and in the land as well.
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Because it's a small community,
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I think people are unconsciously
kind of aware
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of giving you space.
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So I think we kind of have to do that,
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and I think it's a bit in our souls.
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Next up is a band from Iceland
that has fans and critics
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gushing about its elegant,
enigmatic sound.
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Here to perform 'Nj?nav?in',
featured in 'Vanilla Sky',
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please welcome Sigur R?!.
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I was very young. Yeah, I was 21.
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And then all of a sudden, you had
record companies and publishers
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and money and...
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You know, all that stuff.
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It was kind of...
It was a bit scary
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and freaked me a bit out.
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You're in a band,
but you're just doing business.
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You're having meetings with lawyers
and things like that.
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In a way, it's quite, like I say, exciting.
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You think about the future,
all kinds of stuff.
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At the same time, it's almost like
a desk job instead of making music.
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The music business is left
overseas in a way.
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We were really sceptical
about all this,
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Iike doing a lot of interviews,
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a lot of photo sessions
where you're posed,
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all this stuff, all these typical things.
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And if you deny that,
don't want to be part of it,
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then people are,
'Oh! Why are you doing that?'
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It's confusing.
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Then they start to build up
some image that you're weird.
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I'm just a normal person.
I like to be silly.
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But we take our music seriously.
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We work a lot on the music.
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Maybe we work sometimes too much.
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It takes a lot to make us happy,
you know,
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with what we do.
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When we meet, the four of us,
in some space,
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with some instruments
and play together four as one,
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we don't talk much, we just play
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until something feels right,
some atmosphere comes to us,
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and we just mould it and form it
until it feels like some whole,
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Iike things just come to you.
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When you travel, you play
in these crowded, big cities,
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so it's really nice to come back here
to all the space in Iceland
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and just to relax a little bit.
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At first, we didn't have an idea
if people would come to the concerts,
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so we imagined some places
being totally empty.
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I was talking to local people
in these places,
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and they were really happy to get
something going on in their village.
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I think we got a lot of attention,
actually. I was kind of surprised.
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But then it should get
a lot of attention, I think.
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I mean, not a lot of people
have done that,
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making concerts so easy
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for people to be able to attend.
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HaIfway through, we saw
in the paper this long article
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about how the band was giving back
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and also it was really noble
because it's all free,
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and all this effort
of giving these concerts
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was joining the soul
of the Icelandic public,
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so people had this great focus
on something so positive.
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Everyone seemed really happy
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and glad to be able
to come and see.
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And people bringing
their whole family,
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grandparents and grandchildren,
everyone in between,
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it was really, really cosy.
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A lot of people were just coming
for the happening, too, I think,
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to some nice moment,
and people want to be a part of it.
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I think that's as nice
as liking the music.
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There's never been much planning
in the work we've done together.
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Or in Sigur R? in general,
there's not much planning.
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So they taught us a lot
on how to do things
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without speaking or planning,
just do.
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It's just eight people
that work really well together.
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This is one big family,
like sisters and brothers,
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because you have
this close relationship,
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but it's not really close, like stealing
your heart from your best friend.
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That only happens
after a few drinks!
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P?l, he's an artist,
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and there are these landslides
over these flaky rocks.
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He goes up and hits the stones,
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and they produce a tone.
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Then he makes this chromatic marimba
out of these rocks.
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Amazing instrument,
and it's just rock.
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Totally natural guy.
He's just like...
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He just lives alone with his mother
in the countryside,
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and just makes things all day,
carves in stone,
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or like a rhubarb marimba,
made from old rhubarb.
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Dj?av?,
you see this big, old rusting ship
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Iying in this old factory that
was probably used for two years.
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Then there was no more fish
and they closed them down.
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Only two people live there,
all year round.
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Total isolation.
It's like nothing there.
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And before it was this village
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with lots of activity
in the fish factory.
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The fish went.
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It was good to be able to bring life
into the place again
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just for a short moment,
one night.
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Iceland is a unique place
in a way
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on this planet.
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It's so strange
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that people can think about it
as a money-making scheme.
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We're not protecting it enough,
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all these nice,
special things we have.
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Like tearing down old houses
to build really...
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- Ugly.
- In our opinion, ugly...
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- Big.
- Big houses.
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And maybe pretending to be
something we are not.
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Most people divide
into two groups:
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people that want to make
loads of money in a short time
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and the people that think about
the long-term effect on Iceland.
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Speaking of that, I'm mostly referring
to the big industry in Iceland
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with all the aluminium factories
being built in Iceland.
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We went up to this protest camp
at Sn?ell
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where they were protesting the building
of the dam at K?ahnj?ar.
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The place where the dam is
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is kind of the biggest unspoilt
highland in Europe.
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We wanted to show support
by going up there,
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because they've sunk
all of this land
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just to drive
some aluminium smelter.
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When we came and saw the dam
and it was...
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I think everybody was just
turned speechless,
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because it was
such a humungous monster!
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They'd brought up this small PA
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and were gonna get electricity
from some generators.
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And then we thought
we're actually here to protest
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the building of a dam
to produce electricity,
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so we thought it would be a good idea
to do it completely acoustically.
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Exactly when we started playing,
the wind just went down.
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It was really magical,
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because it was meant
to happen that way,
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and after the performance
the wind started coming again.
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It can't be taken back.
I mean, it's flooded now.
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And it's really sad.
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In every small little village
in Iceland there's a choir.
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Some say it might be because
of the lack of instruments,
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but I don't really buy that.
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I think there must have been
some instruments in the old days.
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But it's very interesting for us
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because we're learning
about things as well,
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exploring them, like the rimur,
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the old chanting style.
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We met Steind? Andersen,
the guy we've worked with a little,
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who is the head
of the rhyme society in Iceland,
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just in a small room.
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He has this deep voice and he started
to chant these rhymes for me,
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and something connected inside me,
something like, 'Whoa!'
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It was warm and right,
or something,
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so I was interested
in this tradition, this old shit.
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It's just so beautiful, I think.
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I really like the Sey?sfj??r
with the fog.
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It was really nice,
and a strange feeling.
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The mist was beautiful.
Really nice weather.
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Slept in a Mongolian tent
in Sey?sfj??r.
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It was really weird,
but it was fun.
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Just the more we travel,
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the more you appreciate
the world and Iceland, as well.
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To travel the whole world
and then come back here. Wow!
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It's kind of a safe haven
for us, Iceland.
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We are left on our own here.
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I think the Asbyrgi show
was definitely...
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...a bizarre show for all of us!
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And it was so special for us
cos we...
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I mean, we haven't played a proper
Sigur R?/Amiina show since then,
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and who knows when we will,
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so it was very emotional.
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Very dramatic.
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It was during a public holiday,
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that usually during that weekend
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people spread around the countryside
to camp,
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but everyone was suddenly thinking,
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'Yeah, are you going to make it
to the concert?'
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In the end it was just packed!
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Then I just realised it was the last,
at least for now.
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We don't know what will happen,
but it was kind of a shock.
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I don't think we maybe realised
what we were doing,
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that it kind of became
a really big thing here,
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so it was really nice.
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And Klambrat?, the Reykjav?
concert, was maybe the highlight,
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because it was...
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Everyone was there,
so it was great.
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The show was good.
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I start playing and I remember
the first two, three songs.
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And then I sort of wake up
in the last song,
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just before everything goes crazy.
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I sort of wake up and think,
'Oh, the show is over!'
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There is this kind of...
Iike a mood you get into,
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you know, together,
doing the same thing.
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A really nice feeling.
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I think on stage, when everything
is how it should be,
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Iike good sound
and everything feels right,
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you just kind of float.
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And it's the best feeling ever
to sing for people.
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You don't know you're singing,
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it's just totally empty headed,
you're just floating there.
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I think Kjarri's grandmother,
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she went to the concert
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and thought it was really loud,
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and then heard it was on TV, too.
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Like, 'lt was on the TV!
Let's go home!'
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'If it's on TV, let's go home
and watch it on TV.'
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Then it was the end of the last song
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and these crazy backdrops and stuff,
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Iike really intense.
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Then she thought something was wrong
with her TV and shut it off.
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I think it's nice.
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