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okay, it’s time for more details on ( ), the new sigur rós album. the album is divided in half: the first half is the “quiet” half, composed of 4 sweet and fragile songs, while the second half is the “heavy” half, composed of 4 bleaker, more melancholic and intense songs. after the first 4 songs, […]

bassist georg holm did a 30 minute dj set on bbc radio 1 show the breezeblock last night. one of the songs he played was a live version of mílanó, which the band have occasionally played as an outro to vaka.

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

those lucky brazilians. apparently the band had with them the string quartet at those gigs in rio de janeiro and sao paulo. the setlists for the gigs were short because the band wasn’t headlining (belle and sebastian were). the setlist in sao paulo was: untitled 10 (a.k.a. vaka) / svefn-g-englar / untitled 1 (a.k.a fyrsta) […]

sorry about the lack of updates, we’ve been busy. we attended the icelandairwaves gig in reykjavík last thursday and it was good, although the band thought it was crap of course. we were going to record the concert but couldn’t because our cable didn’t fit into the soundboard, so we’re sorry we can’t post clips […]

sigur rós recently played at the icelandic sorcery and witchcraft festival. the setlist was: syndir guðs, quiet song, fyrsta + samskipti, dauðalagið, svefn-g-englar, vaka + mílanó, untitled 9 feat. steindór andersen, untitled 4 feat. steindór andersen, untitled 5 feat. steindór andersen, olsen olsen, hafssól, popplagið. there are some excellent photo’s from the gig which you […]

francois from ný batterí has sent us this setlist which someone snatched from the montreux jazz festival gig. from it we can see what working titles the band uses for some of the new songs. the titles are listed below. untitled 3 = fyrsta (the first [song]) untitled 8 = samskipti (communication) [as far as […]

sigur rós debuted yet another new untitled song last night. they just can’t seem to stop. the new song, untitled 11, is string-based and was played directly after untitled 10, like an extension of it. you can listen to the song here. they also played what seems to be a more finalised version of untitled […]