Sigur Rós, Björk play National Geographic
Here’s some good news for those that missed Björk last year at Coachella, or weren’t lucky enough to score tickets on the hot selling Sigur Rós tour right now. This weekend, tomorrow actually, National Geographic will be streaming a super concert that includes, well, Björk and Sigur Rós. Considering the international appeal of both artists, this should be a treat for everyone.
The Náttúra concert is a bid to raise awareness of the destruction of Iceland’s natural
landscape, and will be webcast live from from 7pm to 10pm GMT (3pm—6pm EST) on Nat Geo Music.
The Náttúra concert will be an open-air event, held at the Botanical Garden on Laugavegur, near the center of Reykjavik, Iceland. The country boasts the largest unspoilt wilderness left in Europe, and Náttúra is being organized as a response to the ongoing enviornmental degradation caused by Iceland’s increasingly invasive aluminium smelting activity.
This is exciting, especially since Sigur Rós just released the marvelous Með suð í eyrum við spilum 
endalaust, and both artists will be in their native home of Iceland. Oh, it’s also being filmed by National f’n Geographic, whose work you should be familiar with, unless you’ve been living under a rock all your life. They’re not just pros with nature but with concerts, too. They proved that by making U2 look exciting again in this year’s U2 3D.
So, given the spectacle that these two bands promise to be, Saturday promises to have a nice lil’ evening. And considering Sigur Rós is playing here in Chicago when I’ll be learning fun things like modern rhetoric and prose (in a pencil pushing night class), this will be a good catch.
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