The Fanpage of the Icelandic band Hellvar
Version 2.0
Sunday, November 8, 2015
Hellvar Live @ Rock Bar Dillon, off venue @ Airwaves 2015 - Photographs by Peter Males
Friday, October 30, 2015
Hellvar off-venue @ Iceland Airwaves '15 Festival on 7. November 2015
7. November 2015 @ 23:15
Saturday, October 17, 2015
Heida “Life and Dream”: Heidatrubador on an Autumn Tour
On
the fanpage of the band Hellvar you can read the full story:
This
year Heiða went to Berlin to write and record some music. Yesterday she released the first
single “Life and Dream”, a track from the upcoming album “Fast”. Mixed and mastered by wizard Curver
Thoroddsen (of Ghostigital fame).
Heiða
Eiríks is doing a short tour next week with 2 male troubadours: David John Hull
(UK) and Aidan Bartley (Ireland).
Iceland Tour Autumn 2015 Schedule
Wednesday, 21. October @ 5:00pm
Lucky Records
Rauðarárstígur 10, 105 Reykjavík
Rauðarárstígur 10, 105 Reykjavík
Wednesday, 21. October @
9:00pm
Café Rosenberg
Klapparstígur 25-27, 101 Reykjavík
Thursday, 22. October @ 8:00pm
Bryggjan Kaffihus, Grindavík
Miðgarður, 240 Grindavík
Sunday, 25. October @ 4:00pm
Óðinshús, Eyrarbakki
Eyrargata, 820 Eyrarbakki
Café Rosenberg
Klapparstígur 25-27, 101 Reykjavík
Thursday, 22. October @ 8:00pm
Bryggjan Kaffihus, Grindavík
Miðgarður, 240 Grindavík
Sunday, 25. October @ 4:00pm
Óðinshús, Eyrarbakki
Eyrargata, 820 Eyrarbakki
Heiða
Eiríks (Iceland) heidatrubador.bandcamp.com
David John Hull (UK) http://www.davidjohnhull.com/
Aidan Bartley (Ireland) http://aidanbartley.com/
David John Hull (UK) http://www.davidjohnhull.com/
Aidan Bartley (Ireland) http://aidanbartley.com/
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Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Heiða @ Reykjavik Folk Festival: Café Rosenberg on 21. October 2015
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Friday, September 25, 2015
Saturday, September 19, 2015
Experimental Stuff by Heiða
Monday, August 3, 2015
Sunday, August 2, 2015
Hellvar goes HAM & DYS: "Animalia" & "Bankanum þínum er sama um þig" Live at Norðanpaunk 2015
Hellvar cover HAM's song "Animalia" at Norðanpaunk 2015 Festival
DYS cover as well: "Bankanum þínum er sama um þig"
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Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Unun @ Eistnaflug
Unun comeback (sort of) at Eistnaflug 2015 Festival
They played 3 songs:
Eg se rautt
Log unga folsins
Leðurskiþið vima.
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Sunday, July 12, 2015
DYS feat. Elvar & Heiða @ Eistnaflug Festival 2015
Dys @ Eistnaflug 2015
Dys í svo góðu sándi að það er næstum því ekki paunk.
Posted by Atli Jarl Martin on Tuesday, 14 July 2015
Sunday, June 7, 2015
Elvar in Joy Division Tribute Band @ Bar 11
Elvar on guitar in the Joy Division Tribute Band
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Wednesday, May 27, 2015
New Video Ruddinn (feat. Heiða): Gullna Ströndin (The Golden Beach)
Music video to the song "Gullna Ströndin" by Ruddinn. This song will be featured on the forthcoming album "More music than music" due later on 2015. Video by : Frosti Jón Runólfsson Ruddinn is an Icelandic electronic music duo with roots in rock and indie music. The band started out as a solo outing but consists today of Bertel Ólafsson and Heiða Eiríksdóttir.
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Thursday, April 23, 2015
Heiða in Berlin # 1: Sumarið kom í dag (The summer came today)
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Interview with Heiða (March 2015)
How and when did Hellvar get together ?
Hellvar
was formed in Berlin by me, Heiða, and multi-instrumentalist Elvar, but
we were living in Berlin for a year from 2004-2005 to study Philosophy
at a local University. We had both been in various bands together and
apart for years before, but we had decided to put musical career on
hold to focus on the studies, and then it turned out we just couldn't
keep away from it. First formation was a drum-machine, and then Heiða
and Elvar taking turns playing bass and electric guitar with Heiða
singing. Half of the first album was recorded in our living-room in
Berlin. This explains the How and the When, and I even added a Why? Why
music? Oh, because you can't not do it, even when your mind is set on
other things.
Had you been involved in music before Hellvar ?
My
first engagement was learning to play guitar at home from the age 13
and onward. I came home from school and quickly did my homework
so I could spend the rest of the afternoon and evening playing. I only
started writing my own songs at the age of 16, when I got my own guitar
from my parents. Before that it was learning Bowie-songs,
Beatles-songs, Smiths, Cure, U2..... When I came across chords to any
song I knew I tried playing it. Led Zeppelin also took up a big part of
a year for me. Home from school, homework, and Baby I'm gonna leave you
for 5 hours was a routine I stuck to religiously. Hahaha. First band I
was in was also at 16, and I was in a few garage-bands from 16 to 23.
One of the bands was in Marseille, France, when I lived there for a
year. I also started making lyrics in English when I lived in France
and was performing my troubadour-stuff there. I wanted people to
understand my lyrics, but didn't know enough french at the time to
compose in french. No-one understands Icelandic so that was futile.
Some professional guys, heros in my opinion at the time, heard me sing
and play in a gig in Reykjavík in 1994 and called me and offered me a
singing-job in a band they had just formed called Unun. (means Pleasure
in Icelandic). I was in Unun until 2000, played around Europe, and then
I did my first solo-album and have been writing and releasing my music
ever since. At the moment I am working on a solo-album of mine,
probably gonna be some low-fi, electro/acoustic experimental album.
Very exciting. Hellvar is working on new material too, and then I am in
this electro-duet called Ruddinn, with a guy called Bertel. We have
done one album together under the name and we just finished recording a
new one, out late this summer.
To someone who has never heard of you, how would you describe your music and who are your main influences ?
Hellvar
is very much like mixing water with olive-oil. You can shake it all you
want and it still won't blend, but if you add some colouring to the mix
it will make great patterns. One is often influenced by the music one
was listening to in one's teenage years, I mean, those are the roots
and then life experience and newer influences and the weather and
politics and whatever comes on top of that, like filters and layers.
Elvar and I don't really share roots but the layers and the filters and
where we stand on things are very similar. Whereas he comes from metal
and punk I come from seventies and indie/alternative rock and then a
bit later goth. We are not the teenagers we were once and I have even
developed taste for some metal and he likes some of the mid-seventies
soft shit I have been pushing on him at the house. The thing is we are
both music-lovers and we have always been. We are not through with
discovering stuff and try to broaden our musical horizon all the time.
Hellvar incorporates our roots as well as our love of rock and we are
not afraid to take unexpected detours into whatever genres of music we
feel necessary in the songs. If you need me to put labels on the music
I would go with alternative, goth, shoe-gaze, punk-rock.
What inspires your lyrics ?
Weather,
politics, philosophy, injustice, films, books, artists, people,
darkness, melancholia, depression, love, confusion, adventures, funny
animal videos on the internet....How long can this interview be? I can
go on for a while... restaurants, weirdness, conversations, parties,
art-galleries, night-time, tea-drinking, clowns. Oh you want me to
stop? Ok, I'll stop.
How is the music scene in Iceland ?
It's
brimming with life. There is nothing to do in Iceland in the wintertime
but watch TV or make art. The people who are TV-watchers have no time
to do art. Artists have no time to watch TV. It's basically too cold
and shitty out to go and do anything. I do see a lot of brave tourists
who come in the wintertime and go hiking and mountain-climbing or
whatever. But for them this is an adventure, and they can leave Iceland
after their adventure is finished. It is different when you can't
leave. I started doing music because of my general lack of enthusiasm
with TV and sports and I think those are the reasons that kept me
going. That, and the I can't not do music. The economical crisis has
also dragged people out of their self-made cages and made them realize
that life is only what you make of it, and so we are seeing and hearing
a lot of people who always wanted to make music or paint or write books
coming out in the open with that now. I love that. Creativity is not
something you can buy. Imagination beats all other forms of
entertainment I have come across.
You DJ on Icelandic Radio, yes .....
Yes,
indeed. I have a radio-show on Sunday-nights. I play Icelandic music
only, underground and upcoming artists mixed with more
established ones. I love finding stuff and introducing it to
radio-listeners. I have always had this enthusiasm about bands I like
when I hear them for the first time. I really believe the right song
can sometime save a day, or a night. I take great pleasure in making my
radio-program, as it is all about introducing people to stuff that
deserves more attention.
What interests do you have outside of music ?
Travelling,
people, arts, love, books, adventures, good food. I would gladly
combine all of those: Travelling the world with artistic people I love,
going on adventures, eating good food and coming home to make art and
write books about it.
You recently did a short tour of England ; how did that go ?
I'm
happy Hellvar finally got a chance to play in England. I think we are
very influenced by English artists, a few of my favourite being Cocteau
Twins, The Cure, P.J.Harvey and David Bowie, and a few of Elvar's being
Mike Oldfield, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, King Crimson and Paradise
Lost. Hellvar has played in Germany many times, and in the U.S. and we
even managed a trip to Beijing a few years back. We loved to get the
reaction from the U.K. audience, as all nations respond differently to
music. We were very pleasantly surprised that England took us so well.
We want to come again in the autumn, and try out new material we have
been stacking up.
Source : Goth
Source : Goth
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Monday, March 2, 2015
Hellvar in the UK in B & W - Photos by English Viking Bjarni
Sunday, March 1, 2015
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Sunday, February 22, 2015
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