Icelandic label Kimi Records will host a free Christmas and publication celebration with a string of concerts at Reykjavík venue Bakkus on Tryggvagata tomorrow evening.
Kimono is among the bands playing at Bakkus.
Other music events next weekend include a Rolling Stones tribute concert at Sódóma on Saturday, on the occasion of Keith Richards’s 67th birthday (everyone whose birthday it is on December 18 will get free admission), Morgunbladid reports.
Performers at Bakkus are The Heavy Experience, kimono, Miri, Orphic Oxtra, Prinspóló, Retro Stefson, Reykjavík!, Stafraenn Hákon and Sudden Weather Change.
This year has been very successful and there is obviously significant growth in the Icelandic music scene, a press release states.
In 2010, Kimi Records published ten LPs, two SPs and two singles, all of which have been well received by customers and critics alike. Kimi’s subsidiary, Brak Records, also released nine albums.
Next year looks promising as well; the highlights are a new LP by Sin Fang Bous, an LP and SP by Sudden Weather Change and an LP by Reykjavík!.
The doors at Bakkus open at 9 pm tomorrow night and the first concert begins punctually at 9:30 pm. Kimi Records will have the performers’ albums for sale on site, along with other band merchandise.
