More and more details on Bjork and Sigur Ros’s big free Icelandic festival emerge. It’s in a park! A large park! It looks set to be Iceland’s biggest free concert ever. I’d like for us all to go, but seeing as it was inspired by this book right here and focuses on the preserving the Icelandic environment, I don’t know how kindly they’d view excessive plane usage. In an interview on her website she says:

“Neither me or Sigur Rós look at ourselves as experts on nature, or as politicians, but we do travel a lot and we believe we know a lot about what image Iceland has abroad, and that we are far behind when it comes to being” Says Björk when asked how the concert came to be. “I spent for example 2 months in South-America and there you saw the poor doing recycling. We can’t be 30 years behind, we need to work together on this and preferably we should be leading the way.”

“Too often battles being fought for nature turn into something negative and into mudslinging. We will not go that way, we are not saying that this and that is forbidden, we are rather asking “what about all these other possibilites?”. The 21st century is not going to be another oil century but rather a century where we need to recycle, think green and design both power plants and our surroundings in harmony with nature.”

You could always travel with your ears, I suppose.

Ailbhe Malone is 21 years old. She continually gets Malcolm McClaren and Steve McClaren mixed up.
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