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Icelandic Gloat: competition winner's photos
Icelandic Gloat: competition winner's photos
sean by Sean Adams July 2nd, 2008
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Many of you may remember that we ran a competition on DiS a few weeks ago to win a trip to Iceland to see Björk and Sigur Rós. That trip happened this weekend, and we asked our randomly selected competition winner, Adam Brooks, to keep a photo-journal of his trip to Reykjavik.

Adam visited the area around Reykjavik, took in some local delicacies, visited Greenhouse Studios where Björk has recorded, and he also had time to join ten per cent of the Icelandic population in a grassy park to watch the show. We already ran some photos of the show here, and here's what he sent us...

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Photos and captions by Adam Brooks and Tom Rosenfeld


Just keep telling yourself 'This is not Monopoly money'


2am sunset


UK yet to rubberstamp 'White van man' and 'Toeless pigeon' equivalents


Obligatory comical foreign foods shot.



Crowd during Sigur Ros



Bjork


Sigur Ros trombonist Helgi Hrafn Jónsson in the Greenhouse Studio


...and all we get is TOX O7 (London-centric)


Last night sunset at 2am


Exactly.

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Adam's trip was organised by Iceland Music and he flew to Iceland via Iceland Air, who have recently put onsale their packages to goto Iceland Airwaves in October.



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