Hey you guys! The tour is just going beautifully!
Apart from a little cold, sniffling and throat hacking, the minstrel is doing famously... Sat on a train, hacking and sniffling, finally realizing that I was sitting beside a very posh German Frau. She was not amused...
Started in Bochum on the 17th with a wonderful night in Luther's with good friends. It was tight and warm and everything as it should be. Thank you Ortwin, Annette, Annika and Bahne and everyone else! :D
Aachen was also very fun, kind of a talk show thing with amazing guests! I met a wonderfully talented young singer songwriter named Lyra. She has a future! Keep your ears peeled. :D
Last night I played the Lange Jan church tower in Middelburg, courtesy of Avendouren's Tonnie Dieleman.
Lange Jan in Middelburg is awesome like the awesomest!
Amazing sound, amazing people, amazing ambience! Totaly Amaaaazing :D And life is good.
A friendly dutch Toilet reminder...
Tonight I'm playing at a the Familie Denissen in a tiny village in Netherlands. I'm so happy to play for such wonderful people :D
What a beautiful life.
Just had a wonderful Grimbergen bier with my host Jan and his friend Marcel at the local tavern. Now, dinner is cooking...
Tonight, I play for their guests at their wonderful home.
Soon, I will be on my way to Nürnberg for more music.
Train, train, take me away... Into the blue, out of the grey :D
I'm a terrible Singer/songwriter... Too happy... Need to step up my sulky whiny bitterness...
See you in all the other cities on they way... And as always, I'm a chubby, DIY indie troubadour without any radio or video presence. That means I rely on the worlds best marketing team: You guys! Tell your friends... Bring your friends!!! :D
Ooh Oooh!!! I have T-Shirts!
And yes, I put a new song up as a podcast :D
Big love,
Svavar Knútur
Svavar Knútur and Markéta Irglová - Baby would you marry me - unfinished but sweet
Hey my beautiful friends.
Just wanted to keep you updated. I'm sorry I haven't been writing a lot, but family life takes its time and energy!
I'm starting recording of my new album today in the Greenhouse studios, home to the world famous Bedroom Community.
I love it here, and the working conditions are amazing.
Can't wait to give you guys a sample...
Also!
I'll be in Berlin on March 1st taking part in the troubadour competition at Wabe!
More info soon!
Best wishes,
Svavar Knútur
Wow you guys!
I've been working like a crazy person these last couple of days.
Three songs in three sit downs is a new record for me.
One love song to my daughter. One ode to childbirth and one Zombie apocalypse love-and-meat-lust rap song... I've got a beautiful rap crew lined up for colab. :D
YIIHAAA!!!
Touring in March and April! It's going to be wild!!!
Hey you guys!
Just wanted to say happy happy new year and thanks so much for all the beautiful moments in the last year! :D
Also! My new friend Kevin from Singapore just sent me his cover of Emotional Anorexic.
I'm so proud I could burst! :D
So! Thanks a lot Kevin! What a beautiful version of my song! Keep it up! I heard you do a mean version of Clementine as well!!!
Check out some more of Kevin a.k.a. Ghost 's songs on youtube.
Also, please send me your covers of my songs, I absolutely love to get mp3's and videos like this. (More on the covers and remixes music subpage).
You can of course download the original song on http://svavarknutur.bandcamp.com
Ho ho ho! Merry christmas my dear friends,
Just wanted to thank everyone for the amazing time we've had in the past year with the touring, Melodica festival, new album and new baby!!! :D I'm so happy I could explode!!!
So I just wanted to give you guys a christmas song I wrote in Icelandic.
It's called Höldum jól, which means, let's hold christmas.
I'm so grateful for you guys and for all your support! I'm working on putting Kristjana and my new album up on Itunes :D Shouldn't be too much of a problem :D
But it can also be downloaded on www.icelandicmusic.com Here's a link!
I love you guys and I can't imagine my life without seeing you around the world.
Let's see each other in the next year!
Best wishes,
Svavar Knútur
Hey everyone!
Svavar Knútur here,
I'm writing to encourage you to stand up against a great injustice in this world.
As you know, the Russian government is attacking the Gay/lesbian community with one of the most disturbing legislations in recent history.
Please sign the allout petition found on THIS PAGE!
Also, in other news, My baby daughter Emma was born just over a week ago on November 17th. She and her mother are doing fine and healthy!
Hey you guys,
Just wanted to say thanks for an amazing tour of Germany, Poland, Austria and Switzerland last september and october.
It was a wonderful experience and full of crazy gigs and funny happenings.
Now I'm back in Iceland, waiting for a baby to come into the world and everything's going pretty peachy. :D
I can't wait to see you guys again. I'm coming back in April and hope to be bringing with me my new album! I'm going to record it in january and It'll hopefully be out by April.
Oh! I'm putting up a little Cover I did with my friend Kristjana, part of our new duets album Glæður (embers). It'll only be released in Iceland as it's a cute little Kitch number for our Icelandic fans. (But I'll bring some extra copies over for my next tour for the most dedicated fans :D)
I love you guys!
Best wishes,
Svavar Knútur
Thanks for an amazing trip and new album coming out
Well well well...
I've been terribly busy of late.
Organizing both the Melodica acoustic songwriters festival and the Troubadour Olympics, a related tour where two groups of five international singer/songwriters tour around Iceland doing beautiful music in the most amazing venues in tiny fishing villages.
It went great...
The festival has started. First day over of three days, four venues and 60 acts, some of the international acts playing different venues on different days for maximum exposure. A total of over 60 man hours of music... :D
It's been an awesome festival so far and it's just getting better!
Can't wait to come out to Germany, Poland, Austria and Switzerland suckers :D
And don't I know anyone from the Baltics? I want to play Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania!!!
Best wishes,
Svavar Knútur
