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
Hey guys... Just wanted to give you a little heads up about the next three months.
Tomorrow... I'm playing Bræðslan festival, supporting Glen Hansard. Honored, Anxious, pissing my pants and giggling with infantile glee...
Then, off to Litchfield Connecticut (USA) and Toronto (Canada) to play at some nice little functions for beautiful people. (well... paid awesome concert in US and just a friendly jam in Canada...) ;-)
On the 19th of August, Friday, I'm playing the Copenhagen songwriter festival at the Onkel Danny Plads Mainstage...
Then... My wedding!
Then... I'm curating and directing the Melodica Acoustic festival Reykjavík on August 26. to 28.
After that, some album recordings, rehearsals and stuff...
24th of September, I'm off for a tour of Germany, Poland, Switzerland and Austria. The tour lasts just over 2 weeks.
November... Baby!!! :D YAY!!!
January: Recording new solo Album... :D YAY!
I'm happier than any Clam has ever been!
Thank you all so much for your support!
Your friend,
Svavar Knútur
p.s. Please tell me what you think of this song... Just comment in the song if you like...
Hey gang! :D
Just wanted to let you know I've put up a new section on this page called Covers and remixes. (it's under music).
If you have ever covered or remixed one of my songs, just put it up on youtube or make an MP3 and I'll add it to the page!
I'd love to get your stuff you guys, so don't be shy!!! :D
Best wishes,
Svavar Knútur
Hey you guys.
I know I haven't been very active in the past month but there's a lot of reasons for it ;-) I promise...
I'd just like to do a bit of a post-tour thank you to all the folks that welcomed me in France, Belgium, Germany and Sweden in the last tour. It was beautiful and you are too many to mention!!!
But I'll try:
Sverrir and Þóra and all the folks in Åkarp.
My bro Nóni and all his family in Sönderborg!
The Melodica teams of Hamburg, Berlin and Århus! My god, you guys! You are amazing! Torben and Rike, Craig and Anika (and Oskar), Björn and Saundrah, Mijo and Lena, Mathias and Jona and Claudio, Niels, Everyone else there that knows who you are!
The folks at the Science slam and the Ex'n'pop in Berlin.
The wonderful folks in Würzburg, the Café cult folks and Mareike!
My dear friends at the TrachtenVogl in München! Christian Ohlman, you are a genius!
Nils and Tina in Landau and of course my dear new friend from Leipzig!
Bernhard from Onkel Tony in Osnabrück for being such a darling man!
Lars and Kathrin and the folks in Stamm Silva in Solingen! Thanks for the Messer... :D
Münster gang! Sebastian, all the Teilchen gang, and of course Jan and Jana. You guys are awesome!
Max, Sonja and all the Katinka folks and of course Johanna Marx. (And the nice jeweler who sold me my engagement ring!
My beautiful friends in Bochum! Ortwin and family and friends at the Geimeinde Stiepel.
Sarah Verhaeghe and Arthur and the farmers at the nice little farm we played. As well as my support singing calf.
Jurgen Vanderbroek in Gent! What a lovely young beautiful beast!
Everyone in Paris! Renaud and Rósa, and my dear Vincent at the Beguin.
And Last but not least! My dear friend Maleen and my new label in Germany Beste Unterhaltung and its chief Christian Pliefke
It's amazing! I'm so happy!
But now, I'm chilling in Djúpavík, a little hotel owned by some very good friends in the middle of nowhere!
Loving it!!! Preparing for a wonderful journey to U.S. and Canada and another European tour in Sept-oct. And then, in the end of october. I will receive the greatest gift a man can receive... :D
with love and joy!
Svavar Knútur
