REYKJAVÍK, ICELAND
27 – 30 DECEMBER, 2017

GLOOMY HOLIDAY // BLANCK MASS // ALEXIS TAYLOR (HOT CHIP) // DIMMA // KRISTIN ANNA // ÁRNI // HILMAR ÖRN HILMARSSON + STEINDÓR ANDERSEN + PÁLL GUÐMUNDSSON // NELLY BEN HAYOUN presents “DISASTER PLAYGROUND” // KEVIN SHIELDS (MY BLOODY VALENTINE) // GUSGUS // MARY LATTIMORE // MAMMÚT // KAITLYN AURELIA SMITH // KÓRUS // KJARTAN HOLM & CALEB SMITH // JO BERGER MYHRE & OLAFUR BJÖRN OLAFSSON // DEAN DEBLOIS presents “HEIMA” // MOGWAI // PEACHES // DAN DEACON // JÓHANN JÓHANNSSON // DUSTIN O’HALLORAN // JULIANNA BARWICK // JFDR // HUGAR // SIGRÚN // BRASSGAT Í BALA // DANÍEL BJARNASON presents “UNDER THE TREE” // JARVIS COCKER // STARS OF THE LID // SIN FANG, SÓLEY & ÖRVAR SMÁRASON // ULRICH SCHNAUSS // ICELAND DANCE COMPANY – ERNA ÓMARSDÓTTUR & VALDIMAR JÓHANNSSON // ICELAND DANCE COMPANY – ÁSRÚN MAGNÚSDÓTTIR & ALEXANDER ROBERTSAMIINA // MR SILLA // GYÐA // ALEX SOMERS // LIMINAL SOUNDBATH // EÍRIKUR ORRI OLAFSSON // HILMAR ÖRN HILMARSSON presents “THE SHOW OF SHOWS” // DATA GRAWLIX // BORGAR MAGNASON

“Norður og niður” means “go north and go down”, but translates more accurately as “everything’s going to hell”.

for four days across christmas and new year the band set up residence in reykjavik’s state-of-the-art venue, harpa, to fill the shortest days with the brightest array of music, art and performance from iceland and beyond.

Sigur Rós in Eldborg, December 27th – 30th

The band performed four concerts in Eldborg, Harpa’s main hall, on December 27, 28, 29 and 30. These were the first shows by the band in iceland in five years, and their most intimate since the tiny regional shows on the heima tour more than a decade ago.

Events in Harpa, December 27th to 30th

Separate to the Sigur Rós concerts, Norður og niður hosted musical performances, art installations, dance pieces, film screenings, spoken word and impromptu happenings, many of them featuring the extended network of friends and collaborators that they have met and worked with throughout their twenty-plus year career.