Sigur Ros are smokin'! The band's 2007 documentary Heima was just named the Top All-Time Documentary by IMDB, the highly respected movie industry database. Heima, which followed the band on the 2006 tour of their homeland, beats out Martin Scorsese's Bob Dylan homage No Direction Home and all of Michael Moore's provocative films, despite Moore getting more votes. For the full list click here.
Over the weekend while people in London were celebrating the 90th birthday of former South African president Nelson Mandela with music, Iceland's finest were putting on the largest live music event ever held in that country. 30,000 people gathered in central Reykjavik (10% of the country's population) to see the Ros, Bjork, and Ólöf Arnalds perform in an effort to raise awareness of the industrialization of the island. Bjork and Arnalds even sat in in Sigur Ros' latest hit single "Gobbledigook." Organizer Einar Örn Benediktsson, one of Björk's Sugarcubes bandmates, said the free concert was "a truly momentous evening." To watch the entire thing for FREE head here.
Yeah...the Nattura concert is all in daylight. Right now the sun almost never sets in Iceland!
Sigur Ros, Bjork, Olof Arnalds performing Sigur Ros' "Gobbledigook"
Bjork wearing her usual funky and weird garb for a performance of "Earth Intruders"
