Iceland: Last News

EXCLUSIVE: Canada’s new-look Farpoint Distribution is hitting the Croisette for the first time with a 700-hour slate for MIPCOM.

Sigur Rós have announced a UK and European tour where they’ll perform with local orchestras, including a London residency – find all the details below.The Icelandic trio are set to perform in “some of the world’s most iconic orchestral venues” where they’ll showcase their 2023 album ‘ÁTTA’ alongside tracks from their extensive catalogue.Sigur Rós wrapped up a North American orchestral tour earlier this month. In November, they’ll kick off the Nordic leg ahead of further shows in Asia and Australia before heading to Europe and the UK next September.The latter stint will include a four-night residency at the historic Royal Albert Hall in London (September 30, October 1, 2, 3), marking their first-ever appearance at the venue.The band are due to be joined by and performing with the London Contemporary Orchestra (LCO), and all shows will be conducted by Robert Ames.Icelandic post-rock band @sigurros are coming to the Hall with the @LCOrchestra in autumn 2025.Priority Booking for Friends & Patrons open at 10am on Wed 16 Oct.

Björk has announced a new book that will document and chronicle her five-year ‘Cornucopia’ tour – find out more below.Cornucopia: The Book serves as a physical commemoration of the artist’s boundary-breaking ‘Cornucopia’ tour that morphed through multiple iterations over the last five years.The book is due for release on November 15 – pre-orders are available now. The book is 480 pages long and will include over 300 images from photographer Santiago Felipe.Björk wrote of Cornucopia: The Book on social media: “Before this tour, I spent a decade working with 360-degree sound and visual software in virtual reality and animation, creating ‘Biophilia’, the first app album, and later ‘Vulnicura’ as a VR album.

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Damon Albarn and Kaktus Einarsson have joined forces for the new single ‘Gumbri’, from Einarsson’s upcoming album ‘Lobster Coda’. Check it out below.The collaboration follows years of the pair working together, beginning in 2007 when a then-15-year-old Einarsson played trumped on the Gorillaz track ‘Stop The Dams’ from their compilation album ‘D-Sides‘.

Björk previewed her new ‘Cornucopia’ film at Climate Week yesterday (September 27), outlining its core environmental message.The Icelandic music icon is the creative director of the film, which is currently in post-production, according to Deadline.Filmed live in Lisbon, Portugal from the European leg of her ‘Cornucopia’ world tour, the movie captures Björk’s climate crisis activism.In a statement to the publication structured in the form of a poem, the singer shared the significance of the project.“It is an emergency, in order to survive as a species we need to define our utopia. The Paris climate accord is a modern utopia impossible to imagine, but overcoming our environmental challenges is the only way we can survive.“We have to imagine something that doesn’t exist, carve intentionally into the future and demand space for hope, weave a matriarchal dome.

St Mirren footballer Shaun Rooney has been charged with assaulting a woman in Glasgow city centre.

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St Mirren have suspended defender Shaun Rooney following an alleged incident in Glasgow city centre last week.

Sickening footage has shown the moment two men were brutally battered and kicked in the head during a violent street brawl.

Annika Pham AMC and Oble Studios’ Hungarian revenge period drama “Fata Morgana” executive produced by Bela Tarr, the Irish/Canadian spy thriller “The Reluctant Contact” from writer Stephen Burke, and the Estonian/ Swiss/Danish fantasy thriller “The Code of Thule” feature among the 10 series in development, selected for the TV Beats Co-financing Market in Tallinn Variety has learned in exclusivity. Other possible standout dramas set to lure co-financiers take in the Icelandic/Danish crime “Norröna Murders,” the Finnish live-action/animation/doc hybrid “The Women I Think About at Night,” based on Mia Kankimäki’s best-selling novel, and Slovenian psycho-thriller “Bunker” starring “Triangle of Sadness”‘ Zlatko Burić.

Tui has warned passengers travelling to Europe of a major change taking place from November. The EU is set to roll out its new Entry/Exit System (EES) from November which will require British travellers to provide fingerprints and a photo when they enter the Schengen area.

Lord of the Rings marathon on March 22, 2025 at the BFI IMAX which will be introduced by three-time Oscar-winning composer Howard Shore.Shore will also join Canadian film director and screenwriter in introducing screenings of the 1996 film Crash as well as 1998’s Dead Ringers.

Aldi shoppers have hit out at the budget retailer for charging nearly £3.50 for a bag of crisps.

EXCLUSIVE: Baltasar Kormákur’s Icelandic box office hit Touch has been chosen as the country’s International Feature Oscar entry. This marks the fifth time that the filmmaker is repping Iceland in the category.

A former bingo hall in Wishaw is set to go under the hammer at auction later this month.

Jodie Foster has won her first Emmy.

Georgia has selected Rusudan Glurjidze’s drama The Antique as its submission to the best international feature film category at the 97th Academy Awards.

The Northern Lights were once the preserve of pricey trips to Iceland beloved by celebs, but the spectacular light show is going to be visible in parts of the UK tonight, the Met Office have announced. So now you don't need to be Kate Ferdinand (though the bikini while watching them is optional).The weather service said the best times to catch the Northern Lights are on Thursday evening or the early hours of Friday.The colourful patterns in the sky, caused by particules colliding with gases around the earth's magnetic poles, are best viewed between 11pm and 2am.

A much-loved city centre café appears to have been closed and seized by its landlord.

CBS has set fall premiere dates for daytime soaps The Bold and the Beautiful and The Young and the Restless, as well as game shows The Price Is Right and Let’s Make a Deal.