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sigur rós played a short, rather typical set at today’s v2002 festival concert. we’ll have a bunch of photos up tomorrow and paul will write a brief review. here’s the setlist:vaka / svefn-g-englar / fyrsta / samskeyti / olsen olsen / the pop song

below are some videos from the hbo reverb episode aired october 2001. the show taped sigur rós’ concert at the theatre of living arts in philadelphia, which was actually a very good concert. (notice in the alternative lyrics jónsi sings in the drum chapter in ný batterí.) you will need real player to view these […]

the kronos string quartet performed arrangements by stephen prutsman of two sigur rós songs last tuesday in eykjavík, as part of the reykjavík arts festival. apparently there had been a misunderstanding with the song titles, so they didn’t play starálfur and ný batterí as had been previously announced, but flugufrelsarinn and svefn-g-englar. the arrangements were […]

as part of the óðin’s raven magic concert on april 21st, the barbican is now planning screenings of several sigur rós related films. two feature length films by friðrik þór friðriksson will be shown (academy award nominated “children of nature” and “angels of the universe”, which contains two songs by sigur rós), as well as […]

sigur rós have donated their song svefn-g-englar to the national society for prevention of cruelty to children (npscc) for use in their television commercial.

in a ‘best of 2001’ feature in the latest issue of entertainment weekly, the ‘best use of music on a television show’ was sigur rós’s svefn-g-englar in an autopsy scene on the crime thriller show ‘csi’.

three sigur rós songs will be in the upcoming hollywood film, vanilla sky. as has been mentioned before, the film is directed by cameron crowe (jerry maguire, almost famous) and stars tom cruise, penélope cruz, cameron diaz and kurt russel. the three songs are svefn-g-englar, ágætis byrjun and the unreleased njósnavélin. crowe will be using […]

the sigur rós song which will be on the vanilla sky soundtrack will in fact not be ágætis byrjun as previously reported, but svefn-g-englar. the soundtrack will also include songs by radiohead, r.e.m., jeff buckley, paul mccartney, bob dylan, and more. the soundtrack is released december 11th and the film is premiered december 14th in […]