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Introducing FM Belfast – From Iceland – Take Note

25/03/2008

From the land of Bjork, Mum, GusGus (and realy bad jumpers), I bring you an excellent Icelandic band that lets your creative mind venture a little further – FM Belfast. There’s already some amazing hype on this band (they just played SXSW and will play Bestival this year) and this is only their first actual single release…Take note!

You will be hearing a lot about FM Belfast in the near future. They played Live at the Iceland Airwaves festival in 2007, recently played the SXSW festival in the US (as well as some uber cool US tour dates), they will be playing Isle of Wight’s Bestival in 2008, and, they are great. Here – with their hype already rolling – FM Belfast brings you their first ever official single release on Thugfucker Recordings, a cover of Rage Against The Machine’s ‘Killing In The Name Of (Lotus)’.. remixes come from Antipop & Gaea and Kasper Bjorke.

FM Belfast formed in late 2005 as a duo with Árni Rúnar Hlöðversson (Plúseinn) and Lóa Hlín Hjálmtýsdóttir. The band was a studio project for some time until the Iceland Airwaves festival 2006 when the band expanded into a full on live act.

The members now vary from three to eight depending on who can make it. The core of the band is made up of Árni Rúnar Hlöðversson (Plúseinn, Hairdoctor, Motion Boys), Árni Vilhjálmsson(Motherfuckers in the house) and Lóa Hlín Hjálmtýsdóttir and when the stars are aligned correctly the band consists of Sveinbjorn Hermann Pálsson(Terrordisco), Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason (múm, Borko, Skakkamanage), Björn Kristjánsson (múm, Borko, Skakkamanage), Birgitta Birgisdóttir, Eiríkur Orri (múm, Kira Kira, Benni Hemm Hemm).

FM Belfast sometimes has two cowbell players that have a percussion play off on stage.

www.fmbelfast.com

www.myspace.com/fmbelfast

www.myspace.com/kasperbjorke

www.thugfucker.org

FM Belfast

‘Killing In The Name Of’ (Lotus)

Including remixes from Antipop & Gaea and Kasper Bjorke

Released April – Thugfucker Records

There are 9 comments in this article:

5/08/2008Icelandic Music 101:FM Belfast at How do you like Iceland? - a weblog by Iceland Express say:

[...] FM Belfast: Myspace | Dancenova | Last.fm | Flickr | [...]
15/11/2008eve isk say:

you do such a good job of introducing all sorts of good icelandic bands on here. as an icelandic new-yorker it makes me very excited. saw them play on my visit home this summer and they're amazing live.
15/11/2008Nexgenfreelancer say:

you do such a good job of introducing all sorts of good icelandic bands on here. as an icelandic new-yorker it makes me very excited. saw them play on my visit home this summer and they're amazing live.
19/03/2009hypnosiscourse say:

you do such a good job of introducing all sorts of good icelandic bands on here. as an icelandic new-yorker it makes me very excited. saw them play on my visit home this summer and they're amazing live.
19/03/2009hypnosis.course say:

you do such a good job of introducing all sorts of good icelandic bands on here. as an icelandic new-yorker it makes me very excited. saw them play on my visit home this summer and they're amazing live.
11/04/2009rabbitvibrator say:

It will not be any surprise that today we are featuring a band from lovely ReykjavÃk, Iceland. Strange sounds, ambient music and mystical vocals is what you usually expect from this almost-frozen land.
11/04/2009Rabbit Vibrator say:

It will not be any surprise that today we are featuring a band from lovely ReykjavÃƒk, Iceland. Strange sounds, ambient music and mystical vocals is what you usually expect from this almost-frozen land.
23/05/2009licensed boston movers say:

Nice, I bet this band will become stars, of course when they are stars they will be moving to different countries and homes to be nearer to their venues.
28/06/2009HDTV Best Deals say:

Some amazing bands you are introducing here, im sure to check these out!

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