Iceland Airwaves 2011 - Icelandic Artists

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Summary

Don't miss your LAST CHANCE to submit to The Iceland Airwaves festival. The festival is known for its intimacy and party spirit. The twelfth annual Iceland Airwaves festival will take place in various venues all over downtown Reykjavik from October 12-16, 2011. Approximately 200 bands will perform to a collective 30,000 people. This is for artists from Iceland ONLY. If you’re not from Iceland, click here to go the submissions page for international artists./n/nThis is for artists from Iceland ONLY. If you’re not from Iceland, click here to go the submissions page for international artists.


The Iceland Airwaves festival is known for its intimacy and party spirit. The 13th annual Iceland Airwaves festival will take place in various venues all over downtown Reykjavik from October 12-16, 2011. Approximately 200 bands will perform in front of about 10,000 people.

5,000 festival passes are sold each year with an additional 2,000 - 3,000 people purchasing day passes. That means that 7,000 - 8,000 people attend the festival per day. Also, since Iceland Airwaves is a showcase festival, it attracts hundreds of journalists and music industry professionals from around the world, especially from the US, UK, Scandinavia, Germany and France.

Iceland Airwaves 2011 will take place at 8 main concert venues in the center of Reykjavik - all in walking distance from another - with capacities ranging from 200 to 1,000. Then there is the 'off-venue program', taking place during the whole festival, from afternoon into the night, in selected record shops, bars, galleries and even a church.

Renowned for featuring only quality, up and coming and cutting-edge acts from around the globe, the Iceland Airwaves festival has featured performances by some of the best and brightest artists of today.

Previous performers include Vampire Weekend, CSS, Crystal Castles, Simian Mobile Disco, Handsome Furs, Singapore Sling, Final Fantasy, White Lies, Bloodgroup, GusGus and Junior Boys. Other previous performers include Bloc Party, !!!, Sigur Rós, TV on the Radio, Hot Chip, Ratatat, Architecture in Helsinki, Kalxons, Deerhoof, of Montreal and Chromeo.

Since the first show held in 1999, which was planned to be a one-off event in an airplane hanger, Iceland Airwaves has become one of the premier showcases for new music - Icelandic and otherwise - in the world.