All About Bjork
Bjork cancels on Sydney Big Day Out
It has been revealed that Icelandic pop-princess Bjork is now no longer appearing at the Sydney Big Day Out on Friday January 25th. [more]
Shy Child to support Bjork
Dubbed 'the White Stripes of new rave', New York-via-London duo Shy Child have been announced to support Bjork. Nice work if you can get it! [more]
Bjork pounds the paparazzi again
It won’t be long before she’s in Australia to perform at the Big Day Out , but Bjork is already making waves in her oh-so recognisable fashion... She's lashed out at a photographer in Auckland! [more]
Gold Coast Big Day Out sold out!
Following yesterday's record sell out of the Big Day Out in Sydney, Queensland has followed suit and snapped up all tickets for the Gold Coast leg of the tour, and in less than one day! [more]
Bjork and Thom Yorke team up
It’s the stuff indie dreams are made of – Bjork’s ‘people’ have announced the new single from the Icelandic chanteuse features Thom Yorke of Radiohead on backing vocals. [more]
Bjork's latest festival exit explained
Icelandic pop star Bjork recently pulled out of Renaissance’s Wild In the Country festival at Knebworth, UK, blaming her withdrawal on the ‘volatile nature of the event’. [more]
Sigur Ros and Bjork dazzle at free concert
It’s times like these you wish you were one of Iceland’s 300,000-odd citizens. While roughly half that number of Poms were sprawled across Glastonbury, Icelandic nationals Sigur Ros and Bjork “celebrated nature” with a free concert in Reykjavik. [more]
Germany’s Melt Festival grows in 2008
The truly one-of-a-kind Melt Festival, staged amongst retired coal-mining diggers on Germany’s Ferropolis peninsula, has line-ups to match its location. In 2008, there’s an extra day added to accommodate the all-star cast. [more]
Icelandic pop idol Bjork dreams about ditching conventional housing to move into a lighthouse, she revealed this week. [more]
A fight broke out in a New York nightclub after a man accidentally doused Icelandic singer Bjork with ice water. [more]
Bjork has confirmed her fifth studio album, Medulla, will be released on August 30. The 14-track album features Bjork singing over rhythms performed by voice artists, or beatboxers as they prefer to be known. [more]
Bjork says she's been recording new songs for her new album with Japanese beatbox artist Dokaka. Dokaka collaborated with the Icelandic singer on tracks for the untitled album at a New York recording studio. [more]
The annual Big Day Out circus rolled into Adelaide once more, selling out in record time. And there is something enjoyable about an event that is an annual must attend regardless of who is playing! [more]
Nothing says “I’m here to rock n’ roll” quite like having no plan, a ticket and a smile, so I organized a lift an hour before it started and off I was to arguably the biggest event of 2008. Check out the ITM review of the QLD Big Day Out experience! [more]
Big Day Out 2008 @ Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne (28/01/08)
by onetwothreefour on January 31st, 2008
There are some aspects of the long-running Big Day Out festival that will never disappoint. Among them, the line-up. 2008's entry into music history, featuring Bjork, Silverchair, and a reformed Rage Against The Machine, could again do no wrong here. [more]
It sure was a coup for the Sydney Festival organisers. Bjork, the quirky Icelandic singer who’s been one of the most consistent fixtures on the musical landscape over the last 20 years, had agreed to participate in Sydney’s biggest cultural festival. [more]