Saw Solstafir up at Warsaw Proxima last night and here are are a few of my pics from the gig which I guess try to capture some of the Viking-type mysticism served up by the band (or that's the way I interpret it, anyway):
Won't pretend to know any of the songs by name, as, like many of the modern-day Prog-type bands, the tunes kind of merge together as a nice coherent whole without me knowing any of the names of the individual parts.
Don't really like the Proxima as a place for gigs, but last night it was okay.
Solstafir vocalist 'Addi' Tryggvason (below) is a great frontman, and joked about there being nothing much in Iceland but black sand (referring to the name of one of their tunes):
He also affectionately referred to his fellow guitarist as 'Gringo':
Just capturing a bit of the on-stage 'anthropology' here with 'Addi' tuning up his flying V (below):
Special mention here for second band on, Esben and the Witch, who I only discovered on Youtube a few days before the gig, but who were also excellent:
Singer and vocalist, Rachel Davies (below), has a great voice in the kind of Siouxsie Sioux vein:
Yeah, I really enjoyed Esben and the Witch despite not knowing much about them:
And the first group on, Obsidian Kingdom, well with all the growling/grunting, they weren't really my cup of tea, but they still seemed to go down quite well:
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