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

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