Bag of Joys

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The band was formed in 1994 when a few friends who’d been making music together at home decided to start rehearsing properly and put together a live band. In 1995 they released a cassette called “Minnir óneitanlega á Grikkaland” of rather poor recording quality. The name roughly translates as “Kinda reminds me of Greece”. It was limited to a total of 40 editions, and managed to get bad reviews which were then reprinted on the sleeve of their next publication, the 7″ single “Nú á ég vermand vini”. This single was released in 250 editions later that same year and the recording quality had improved somewhat. In 1997 Bad Taste ltd released a series of smallish cd’s with a few notable young underground bands, each CD containing around 7-9 songs, so these were kinda mini-LP’s designed to get the bands some starting point, but not distributed or promoted widely it seems. I think all of these bands disbanded pretty soon after those releases, and never properly got off the ground. The CD “Eins og ég var motta” (”Like I was a rug”) was released in 1997, and here they had aquired a female vocalist named Lena. The recordings are great and the songs are sparkling with naivety and non-sensical lyrics, including a cover of “We like to do it” by a band I do not know called Avocado Baby. They had a well attended release party, and then promptly disbanded. Since then they’ve occasionally resurfaced playing one concert in 2002 and at a wedding last year, and one member named Sighvatur, also k

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