TRABANT + Æla + Tim Ten Yen

Sun 17th Jun 2007

Two Little Dogs PR
and Icelandic Music Export introduces
Reykjavik Nights featuring
TRABANT
+ Æla
+ Tim Ten Yen

Doors 7.30
£5 via WeGotTickets
£6 door

Reykjavik Nights marks its debut evening of exciting new Icelandic music and Iceland's National Day on Sunday 17th June with a very special treat for the people of London - a group so good Fatboy Slim declared: "I want everybody to see this band before they die" - Trabant.

Peep their new video here.

With support from sheep's head-eating, liquorice vodka-swilling punk band Æla, also based in Reykjavik, and highly-acclaimed Londoner Tim Tim Yen, the evening will be the first in a regular series of gig nights, held in association with Iceland Music Exports, showcasing the best new bands and musicians from Iceland and beyond.

Electro heroes Trabant are currently the biggest band in Iceland, attracting untold attention at their packed party-atmosphere gigs with a Har Mar Superstar-style attitude to on-stage attire and killer songs like 'The One', the track which led Fatboy Slim to pursue the five-piece band all the way to their hometown to see them live. Londoners, however, won't have to go anywhere near the Arctic Circle to see Trabant in the flesh which is great news if the NME's verdict is anything to go by: "Each song teeters beautifully between Queen and The Killers - there ain't no shame in this neo-glam electropop game."

Following a massively successful UK tour in March, Æla (pronounced 'ai-la') will be providing a different sort of entertainment with a thunderous typhoon of inspired prog punk and some on-stage theatrics (pirates are a favourite theme…) that have made them one Iceland's most sought-after bands. Veering between two minute bursts of thrash and more thoughtful songs about life saving fruit, Drowned In Sound summed them up perfectly with: "Æla plays Icelandic punk rock. Audience in concerts have advised the band members to get health insurance due to their wild stage act, especially their front man who repeatedly jumps to a chair he always brings along. If he spills your beer, don't take it personally." To compliment the evening's musical entertainment, award-winning music video director Ali Taylor will be using her creative talents to transform The Luminaire with, in her words: "Icelandic sci-fi, Reykjavik-Barberella, giant viking beards and puffin-eating volcano visuals..."

Ali's video for Emiliana Torrini's 'Sunnyroad' won Best Music Video at the Icelandic Music Awards in 2006 and her work is highly regarded around Europe. Prepare for the spectacular.

Expect naked flesh, stage-diving pirates, a beer-soaked front row, mind-blowing music and more fun than really should be allowed outside of an all-night bar in 101 Reykjavik - London won't see another evening like it. Except maybe at the next Reykjavik Nights…

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