About this Event

Grúska Babúska

is a 6-piece all female band, with an electronic, melodic, acoustic, and twisted Icelandic folk fairytale sound. The band was founded in 2010 by Arndís, Harpa and Guðrún Birna. Dísa joined the group in 2011, adding drums and percussion to the the other instruments, which are flute, ukulele, synths, keyboard, guitar, melodica, musicbox and beats. Björk has also recently joined the band, adding visually hypnotic electronics and vibes as well as base guitar. The most recent band member is Íris, who comes in with a breath of fresh voice and electronics.



Grúska Babúska music has been described to range from the Notwist to old Icelandic folk rhymes to 70´s children´s TV music, and also from Múm meets the Knife.…. Well, or simply like the most common description: it can´t really be placed anywhere.



Grúska Babúska has performed at numerous shows in Iceland, where they focus on putting up their own shows in inspiring spaces and places in and around Reykjavík, such as Laugarnestangi, the old Salt fishing factory in Grandi and in Nauthólsvík. The band has also toured in the UK, where the UK label Static Caravan put out their first release - a babuscka-usb-doll containing 6 songs, co-produced by Mike Lindsay (Tunng, Cheek Mountain Thief) and mixed at Greenhouse studios (Sam Amidon, Paul Evans and more). The band had their Airwaves debut live performance at Iceland Airwaves in 2013, where they released their B-sides in wooden babushkas containing an online code to 4 songs. In 2015 the band released their 5 video single, with a premiere on Iceland Airwaves 2015.



Port Erin

''Very smart and fleet-footed – a modern math-rock vibe… very evolved but still rocking out as well''



David Sinclair (The Times, The Guardian, Kerrang!)



Their ability to touch upon so many unique stylistic elements, not only over the course of the album, but within a single song, intimates an affinity with a higher musical purpose, almost as if the notion of the ‘genre’ was non-existent; Port Erin are a genre unto themselves, ‘meta-music’, if you will. ‘Floating Over the City’ is one of the most unique and diverse albums that will hear this year. Lyric Lounge Review