He actually did have a leather jacket on for about five seconds as the band launched into “I wanna be your Dog.” The crowd went insane screaming in languages I couldn't understand except for “IGGY POP!! IGGY FUCKING POP!” Behind Iggy, the band featured guitarist Kevin Armstrong and guitarist/keyboardist Seamus Beaghen, who toured with Iggy on his Blah, Blah, Blah tour 19, with Beaghen continuing on during the rock star's Instinct tour in 19. My stalker friends and myself are the least of his worries.įinally, around 10 p.m., Iggy hit the stage like an explosion, 143 pounds of leathery, shirtless rock and roll God. Jos was not in the best of moods as he is obviously there to work. “Is there going to be a make up show in the UK?” “Is there going to be crowd invitation to storm the stage this year?” Once I fond him I peppered him with a few probing questions: After quickly downing three beers right before his set, I went looking for my hero Jos, one of Iggy's back line roadies, who I've met several times on my quest to see the Ig in concert all around the world. Now this is the guy I crossed the world to see. Not surprisingly, the greatest moment of the weekend happened the minute Iggy Pop took the stage.
#KELIR MOUNTAIN ICELAND MOVIE#
But there were so many great bands food art and DJs, sitting down to watch a movie wasn't exactly the biggest priority. I was only able to catch a little bit of the original Roller Ball, a 1975 American movie about a future were the world is run by corporations and the settle their differences in a game called Roller Ball–a lot like roller derby, but played to the death.
There was a long list of great movies from The Exorcist to a skate movie called Tent City. One more large hangar for the Kelir-ATP cinema with movies was curated by the band Mogwai in honor of the band's 20th anniversary. Another area called the Officers Club was reserved for DJ's. The highlight for me was an Icelandic garage punk band called Pink Street Boys that rocked the shit out of the little stage.
In addition to normal festival fare– hamburgers and fish and chips lots of beer–there were also Icelandic staples like leg of lamb and lobster soup.Īcross the way from the main stage, there was another hangar-style building called the Andrew Theater that held another stage for less known and local acts. It had a large yard with storage containers set up as shops for food and beer vendors. The fans were a mix of Icelandic, European and quite a few Americas.Īs we approached the former military base, we could see a large airplane hangar with a large sign that read Atlantic Studios which housed the main stage. ATP had chartered buses to take us back and forth to the show. We stayed in an apartment in Reykjavík, the largest city in Iceland, with a population of about 120,000 people. But if you know me or our little group of friends I traveled with, you would know that if Iggy was going to play in the middle of a lava field in an airplane hanger, chances are we are going to be there. The old NATO base made for a very surreal venue to see headliners Public Enemy and Iggy Pop.
When the Germans took Demark, the English invaded Iceland, who then handed the base it over to America and we, along with our allies, used it as a naval station. Interesting fact: Iceland was not occupied by the Germans in WWII and was part of Denmark. It was moved to a former NATO base Ásbrú in the city of Keflavík this year with the help of Icelander Tomas Young. For one thing, there's no darkness this time of year, except for maybe a few hours a day.įormed in the UK in 1999 by Barry Hogan as an alternative to larger corporate music festivals, ATP has always been a sort of prized festival for travelers and is always on the move at different locales around the world. From the time we exited the plane, everything seemed just a little different in Iceland. Yes, it was a bit surreal, but nevertheless breathtaking. As we landed at Keflavik Airport and looked down over Iceland, our first impressions were that it looked more like we'd just landed on the moon or another planet–with moss-covered lava rock going into mountains as far as the eye could see with very few trees.
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