Of concerts and prophets and storm
Remember Rockstarsupernova? That had the Icelandic nation in it's vice-like grip last summer, all on account of third cousin Magni being a contestant?
If you do, you'll also remember that our Magni came in fourth on account of the entire Nicelandic nation staying up nights to vote for him. And when it was all over, There Was Talk of the Supernova house band featuring Magni, Dilana, Toby and Storm Large going on tour as an opening act for Supernova featuring Lukas. Which meant that everyone was still One Happy Rockstarsupernova Family and, more importantly, all the fans of all the singers would be buying tickets.
However. Barely a month had passed before the Supernova camp had nixed all reports of the house band touring with them as opening act. Why? Well, rumour had it - and YT believes it - that Supernova were just too freaking scared to have the superexcellent house band open up for them. After all, that very talented house band with its evident artistic integrity would have been a pretty tough act to follow and would, in fact, have highlighted the shortcomings of old Supernova and its desiccated rockers to the extent that the entire Rockstarsupernova enterprise would have seemed like a bad joke.
Not to be undone, however, our Magni has simply summoned the entire crew over here to Niceland. So now the Supernova house band, plus Magni, Toby, Dilana and Storm, will be giving two concerts here this weekend and both are already sold out. And you can bet they'll be rockin'.
SPEAKING OF CONCERTS:
The Sugarcubes - remember them? They played a reunion concert a couple of weeks ago to commemorate 20 years since the release of the single Birthday, that made them famous and launched Björk Guðmundsdóttir's career. The thing about that concert was that it wasn't even sold out and Icelanders seemed completely nonplussed about the whole affair. Whereas around 1000 punters came from abroad just to attend. Compare that with the two sold-out events above and it just goes to prove that nobody is a prophet in his own country.*
OH AND THIS:
Sufjan Stevens was one of the punters that just couldn't give the Sugarcubes a miss. He was here to play two concerts at Fríkirkjan [that evidently were to die for and got five stars out of five in all the media and YT is kicking herself for always missing all the good acts even though I've only heard one song by the guy but apparently he's the greatest thing since sliced bread] and his earlier concert happened to be on the same evening as the Cubes were playing. So old Sufjan moved the concert up to 6.30 pm just so he could make the Cubes at 8.30 pm [or thereabouts]. Which proves that Sufjan Stevens recognizes prophets when he sees them and isn't Nicelandic.
BUT WHAT OF IT ALL? THE WEATHER:
Is miserable, thankyouverymuch. They issued a storm warning, and just like that the storm came. It started blowing late morning just as YT was out for a run and then it just got worse and worse and right now it's dark and the wind is whipping around the house and if you drive down by the shore your car will get doused in sea water and will rust to pieces. Temps are holding steady at 4°C [a lot more with windchill, though] and the sun came up at 10.42 and set at 15.50.
*Icelandic idiom.
If you do, you'll also remember that our Magni came in fourth on account of the entire Nicelandic nation staying up nights to vote for him. And when it was all over, There Was Talk of the Supernova house band featuring Magni, Dilana, Toby and Storm Large going on tour as an opening act for Supernova featuring Lukas. Which meant that everyone was still One Happy Rockstarsupernova Family and, more importantly, all the fans of all the singers would be buying tickets.
However. Barely a month had passed before the Supernova camp had nixed all reports of the house band touring with them as opening act. Why? Well, rumour had it - and YT believes it - that Supernova were just too freaking scared to have the superexcellent house band open up for them. After all, that very talented house band with its evident artistic integrity would have been a pretty tough act to follow and would, in fact, have highlighted the shortcomings of old Supernova and its desiccated rockers to the extent that the entire Rockstarsupernova enterprise would have seemed like a bad joke.
Not to be undone, however, our Magni has simply summoned the entire crew over here to Niceland. So now the Supernova house band, plus Magni, Toby, Dilana and Storm, will be giving two concerts here this weekend and both are already sold out. And you can bet they'll be rockin'.
SPEAKING OF CONCERTS:
The Sugarcubes - remember them? They played a reunion concert a couple of weeks ago to commemorate 20 years since the release of the single Birthday, that made them famous and launched Björk Guðmundsdóttir's career. The thing about that concert was that it wasn't even sold out and Icelanders seemed completely nonplussed about the whole affair. Whereas around 1000 punters came from abroad just to attend. Compare that with the two sold-out events above and it just goes to prove that nobody is a prophet in his own country.*
OH AND THIS:
Sufjan Stevens was one of the punters that just couldn't give the Sugarcubes a miss. He was here to play two concerts at Fríkirkjan [that evidently were to die for and got five stars out of five in all the media and YT is kicking herself for always missing all the good acts even though I've only heard one song by the guy but apparently he's the greatest thing since sliced bread] and his earlier concert happened to be on the same evening as the Cubes were playing. So old Sufjan moved the concert up to 6.30 pm just so he could make the Cubes at 8.30 pm [or thereabouts]. Which proves that Sufjan Stevens recognizes prophets when he sees them and isn't Nicelandic.
BUT WHAT OF IT ALL? THE WEATHER:
Is miserable, thankyouverymuch. They issued a storm warning, and just like that the storm came. It started blowing late morning just as YT was out for a run and then it just got worse and worse and right now it's dark and the wind is whipping around the house and if you drive down by the shore your car will get doused in sea water and will rust to pieces. Temps are holding steady at 4°C [a lot more with windchill, though] and the sun came up at 10.42 and set at 15.50.
*Icelandic idiom.
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