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The Airwaves Festival in the land of ice and cream returns this autumn for the ninth time. During the week of 17-21 October, international festival-goers will crowd the streets and various venues in the centre of über cool Reykjavik. Coming at a time when everyone feels the fun of summer is over, it is a very welcome chance to party and enjoy some of the 170 acts on offer. Due to the huge variety of acts playing across venues mainly within a 10-minute walk of each other and the fact that it lasts five days, Airwaves has grown in intensity each year and this year promises to follow. The ever exploding Bloc Party have penciled it in amongst their hefty ongoing world tour, along with confirmations from Iceland’s own GusGus, mum and FM Belfast with transatlantic drop-ins from New York band !!! and quirky Canadian rapper Buck 65. Airwaves has however built its strong reputation on a mixture of up-and-coming local talent amongst the more international headlining acts and we all know there’s nothing like getting in on new music before everyone else.
As usual, I missed the whole selling tickets part. It was sold out way before I started to consider buying one. I asked a little bit around me if by any chance someone would sell me an extra but so far no one responded. It’s not as if I had the time to plenty use the 8500.- ticket, so I’m all right. It’s just Friday and Saturday that will probably feel empty. Although when you think about it, gigs ends at around 1am so bars and clubs will be packed anyway. Off venues could still make it. We’ll see.
