Dyrdin
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Dyrdin is an Icelandic band with alternative rock background that also likes to play pop music.Band/artist history
Dyrdin was formed by former indie and noise rockers in 1994, purely in order to create fun, naive and catchy pop tunes. The mission was accomplished admirably and two songs were recoreded and released by Veraldarkeröld, a small independent record label in Iceland.
But since the Icelandic market is highly responsive to serious, brain-dead pop tunes aimed at horny teenagers, the band's success was a small one and it was met with ignorance.
Deriving it's influence from pop and disco, and spicing it with occasional fuzzy guitars a la Jesus and Mary Chain, it created silly parodies of the dominating teenie pop scene, with the superb aid of a Dr. Rhythm drum machine, timeless tunes of innocent wonder at the world we're living in.
The members also being fans of science fiction, lyrics revolved around f.e. a girl falling in love with Mr. Spock of Star Trek fame, and wishing she could beam away with him to faraway galaxies and explore realms where no man has gone before.
Another pop tune, called 'Brottnumin' (Abducted) was about a girl falling in love (what else) with a hideous slimy alien who only eats glass and zippers, and overcoming all obstacles fly away in a spaceship and have children on some strange faraway planet.
Needless to say, rather than finding this wonderfully hilarious the ignorant audience got alienated themselves and went back to even more silly songs about sex in much duller places under much duller circumstances. Here these gems may finally come to live, although the lyrics are all in Icelandic, and who knows, the band may have a bright future yet!Have you performed in front of an audience?At present we have not played for a long time, but are starting again, getting another bass player and moving the old one on to keyboards, which he can't play but will try anyway.
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We all like groups like The Fall, Jesus and Mary Chain, Pixies and The Cure, and Einar, the most active songwriter has a background of creating veeeery loud walls og guitar noise with a band called Wapp, back in 1988-1990. But then again we also like, and partly imitate, f.e. ABBA.The Geysir
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the music is light and funny...it is cool..like it. and not bad that you are singing in icelandic.. hunangsdropa..hehe regard´s.."insomnia in iceland"