WHY WE SUCK!!
03/09/2004

This part hasn't been updated in years or something. Hell. Reasons are as follows: we're disorginized, lazy, internet-dumb, we don't write stuff down and it seems we play too many shows to keep up with the writing about them. Countless shows...jeez. It never ends.
Since our last babble about a specific shows there have been awesome local shows, insane and fun hc/punk action, foreign bands playing with us in Iceland, us going on tours and what have you. It would have been great to document all that on this very page but we failed.
Maybe we will pick up the pen again for you to enjoy.
We have so many people to thank for all the memories and glorious and not so glorious moments.
All the people that go to shows, dance, sing along, just watch, hang out and talk to us. All the superb bands we've played with. All the people that help us in any way. All our friends. I Adapt would not function without you. It's been an amazing journey and it's not about to end. We owe it all to you.
There are not words to express our grattitude. You know us and maybe you can use that knowledge to imagine how we feel. The fire is still burning - the sonds and actions, driven by passion...

Yours Truly

-I ADAPT
september, 2004

I Adapt, útgáfutónleikar í Vesturporti 9th Ágúst 2002
17/01/2003

After a whole week of wheat-postering, radio and newspaper interviews, intense rehearsals, stressing out on finishing the cd, making the t-shirts, renting the venue etc etc the day of our release party finally happened. Held at the independent theatre, Vesturport, a really cool but incredibly warm venue with really nice people who run it, we rolled in the PA system and gear, decorated the room with pro-gay flags and decorations as this gig was also a celebration of the Gay Pride festival even though this wasn’t an official part of it we wanted to do our bit for gay rights and tolerance towards homosexuals. Soundcheck, everything fine. Let the crowd in and give everyone a condom. The venue was immediately packed to our surprise and our merch table with the t-shirts and cds was crowded the entire show. Oh the show, well it started with the only rap group worth listening to in Iceland, Afkvæmi Guðanna gave a decent set with a guitar player and all. Up next, Snafu and things started to get really hot. Unfortunately I missed most of their set but I was told that this was their best show for a long long time or possibly ever. Too bad I was to stressed out to watch it (I being Villi). Apparently we were running things on a bit too high volume since the cops came but the really nice venue owner talked to them and bought us some time so I Adapt took the stage/floor. Right from the start it was obvious that the show was gonna be a legendary one. Birkir was in top form on the vocals and the rest of the band have rarely been as intense and passionate (in my humble opinion). We played most of the songs of the album as well as two covers (Strife and Shockwave). We even played a song of the album for the first time live, “where it all makes sense” is the name of the song and it is one of our most melodic songs ever but still fast and aggressive with really catchy melodies. I think it went down well even though it is so hard to play that we can’t fool around too much while playing it. All in all the show was perfect, the venue packed with people of all age groups from all different scenes, metal kids, hardcore kids, punks, indie kids and everyone left with a smile which is in the end the main purpose of our gigs, that people leave happy with a smile on their face. We sold all the cds we had to offer at the time and almost all of the t-shirts and I would like to take this opportunity to thank everybody who bought our shit, showed up and had a good time. And also, this was the first gig for our new drummer Óli who has helped us out before but is probably gonna be a part of the band for a few months now. Welcome to the family.

I Adapt, Ieper fest in Belgium 16th August 2002
17/01/2003

Oh boy, the first time playing outside of Iceland and what a place to start, one of Europe’s greatest hardcore festivals sporting a line up of who’s who in modern European hardcore along with class act US bands. But this was more than just a gig, it was a journey. A large group of people travelling around Europe in trains to see their favorite bands play and to have fun and enjoy each others company. Together with a group of friends we arrived in Amsterdam on the 12th of August carrying our instruments, luggage and around 50 I Adapt cds and some t-shirts. It was late at night but we still travelled some distance to the countryside to get a good and quiet hostel where we checked in and then sat outside and talked late into the night. The following day we travelled to Dusseldorf, Germany where we were going to see Good Clean Fun play. After walking around for hours we finally found the hostel where we stayed and we immediately went downtown to have some (veggie) food before the show started. When we arrived at the venue we were surprised because it was so small, we thought a band of GCF size would be playing bigger venues. But anyway, we saw the crowd get bigger with all types of punks and hardcore kids filling the place. I’m not sure what the first band was called but they played a rather uninspired type of emo-rock in the vein of Alkaline Trio. Next up were Anomalie, a band playing a style similar to Reversal Of Man, they were enthusiastic and passionate (well some of them) but suffered from some really poor musicians but they were fun nonetheless. They brought a lot of attention to us Icelanders since some of us were wearing the I Adapt t-shirts that state ICELAND HARDCORE and during the middle of Anomalies set they stopped to ask us what we were doing there (in a nice way) and welcomed us, very nice guys with their hearts in the right place, one of the few bands during this whole trip who actually had something to say between songs. Good Clean Fun were up next and boy did we dance and sing a long and have fun for the entirety of their set, I was smiling the whole time. Mike, their bass player was wearing an I Adapt shirt which made us real proud. One of the highlights of the entire trip.
The following day we travelled to Ieper where we put up our tents and met some of the organizers of the fest, really nice people who deserve nothing but credit for all their hard work. During this whole time there was a heatwave going on in western Europe so we all got sunburned. When Friday the 16th finally arrived we were all pretty psyched about the whole thing. We arrived at the fest a short while before we were due on stage. We were the second band on the first day of the fest, coming straight up after the mighty CHIMAIRA who were nice enough to lend us their gear since we only had our guitars and no amps or anything. We were all pretty tuned up and as soon as we had soundchecked we started playing simple noise while Birkir gave some introductions and fooled around. There was already a surprising amount of people in front of the stage, a big thank you to all the Icelandic kids there who stood there in the heat and sang along and supported us, it means a lot to us! We played a selection of both old and new songs and gave it our all, heart and soul, right from the first note, we were there to give all the other bands a run for the money. Right from the start the response was amazing and I think we managed to turn a European head or two during our set. While we played “Six Feet Under” our friend Siggi, lead singer from Snafu, came and sang the chorus with us which sounded great. Thanks for that! I think this was probably one of the best I Adapt shows ever both soundwise and performance wise.
After the show we just went and talked to our friends and set up our distro as well as checking out the band that followed us on stage, Reply from Belgium who are fucking great. Too our surprise we sold all the cds and shirts that we had and where overwhelmed by the amazing response we got. The rest of the fest was of course brilliant, the weather was great, the vegan food was superb, the people and the atmosphere wonderful. During this fest we saw some of our favorite bands play including; Sworn In, Strike Anywhere, As Friends Rust, Circle, JR Ewing, Amulet, Majority Rule, Darkest Hour, Heaven Shall Burn and last but not least Point Of No Return who totally blew me (Villi) away and is perhaps the most inspiring band I have ever seen. Of course there were loads more great bands, cool people and fun things that happened but we’ll write about that elsewhere.

Galtalækur (4. August)
04/07/2002

This show is so dear to us. It was early in our time as a band and it was beyond all expectations. It took place at 3 day traditional family(festival) weekend. When we came there we expected nothing. All we wanted to do was see some new faces, play for young kids and play well and hard and put on a good show.
It took place in a rather big tent. When we took the stage there were alot of people in there all the way into the back. Lots of kids and adults too watching out. See, that´s interesting...
It was our first show in some time with Axel and having him back with us on stage gave us an xtra boost that gave us all dynamite up the ass. Needless to say we played hard and had so much fun. From the first minute it seem to ignite the audience. From then on people were jumping up and down and goofin around. It was so great.
The highlight was when we stopped the set before this one song. We´d noticed some really young kids that were in fron of the stage and they looked really surprised by us and how we did our thing. These kids were probably at the age of 11-13! Birkir asked them to join us on stage, wich they did. Then he wispered in their ears what he wanted to do with them. What they would do was to stage-dive all at the same time joining hands and the crowd was asked the catch them nicely. Birkir even asked the parents in the audience that if they owned any of those kids and they didn´t like what was gonna take place they should raise their hands. No parent did. So we burst into a fast song and the kids along with Birkir stage dived!! It was great and fun as hell. I think those youngsters were really happy. And we were blown away by all this.
Damn, and the bands that played with us. We were dancing all night to them too. Snafu, Andlát and Innvortis. This was a night to remember!

Fuck Nato 2002 14-05-2002
14/05/2002

FUCK NATO
2. dagur/day two - 14-05-2002

First off we wanna thank our good friend Siggi (of Forgarður Helvítis) for orginizing this two day fest and for letting us play one of the best shows of our life!
We can´t put it in to words how we feel about this show. It was crazy! The stage was big so we could run around alot and do whatever we wanted wich made for a pretty active stage performance. We were going off.
And the crowd... this was their moment! It was amazing! Dancing like crazy, having fun, stage dives, goofin on the stage and singalongs like you wwouldn´t beleive. They sang so much that it just broke our hearts.. in a good way though.
We played some covers too. Damn this was a good show and this two day fest was really soemthing that we needed as fans of the music and scenesters.
Again; thanx for doing this shit Siggi and thanx to everybody that came out to support this effort and see good bands and take in some politics too.

Rock against racism/ Rokk gegn rasisma - 15/07/2002
30/03/2002

Rokk gegn Rasisma/Rock against Racism, Hitt Húsið, 30 Apríl 2002

A show organised by Heimsþorp, the anti-racism organization that members of this band were founding members of with other people. This was quite a diverse show considering there were only three bands but hey, that’s the way we like it. First up were Dys, our favorite new band. They are a punk band in the true sense of the word. They are all older guys and the only scene related person in the band is Siggi Pönk, the lead singer from Forgarður Helvítis but it is fun to have these new guys coming to shows and taking part in this youth orientated scene. They were fucking awesome like always. We were next and were quite tight and good this time round. We played the new song again and it went down well. There weren’t that many people there but we still managed to get a sizeble pit going and everyone left with a smile and that makes us happy campers. Ingi went nuts and gave the best performance in ages, he was inspiring to watch. All in all we are quite happy with this show, especially since we love playing for a good cause like this. Last band on stage were Maus who we have shared a stage with once before. They were very good. They play very good emo-ish pop rock and play with their hearts completely into the music, they are also inspiring to watch. A good show with good people and I hope there will be more of these.

dordingull.com benefit show -
23/03/2002

I Adapt, Dordingull.com benefit, Hitt Húsið, 23 march 2002

Boy what a fantastic gig! First of all the line up; Reaper, Citizen Joe, Spildog, Down To Earth, Sólstafir, Dys, Forgarður Helvítis, Andlát, a Faroese Island band called Makrel and us! Does it get any better than that? This was a benefit for the web-area that is the glue for our little scene here in Iceland and hosts our webpage along with plenty of others. The whole event started early, at 5 in the afternoon so it was finished early and therefore a completely all ages show. We were so happy to be playing this show and you could see that from our performance, I think we have rarely been this good. We were tighter than a tight thing, haven’t been this lively on stage for a long time and delivered everything unusually well. The crowd was huge filled with people of all ages, scene mainstays and newcomers, metal kids, punks and hardcore kids, just the way it should be! There were massive sing-a-longs during our set and we joked a lot between songs keeping the atmoshpere very happy and positive. Villi sang unusually much in the back ups which made for a good change in our sound. Probably my favorite gig in a long, long time. The other bands were kick ass as well and all members of I Adapt were smiling from the first note of the evening till the last. This gig was Hardcore as good as it gets.

Húsavík 02.16.2002 - 14/03/2002
14/03/2002

Húsavík
The Sour Blast Tour
“We´ve got duditude!”

We had been looking so much forward to this trip. I had a hard time sleeping just thinking about all of us in the car the day after, on out way to the town called Húsavík. I think it’s a town of 4000 people or something like that. We knew we would be taken care off nicely and that it would be fun cos our good friend Þórir lives there.
Nothing beats the feeling of going to the country side with your band in order to introduce you music to the locals and hopefully influence them to have fun with us and just let loose and goof around with us.
The drive itself was lots of fun. I think it was 6 or 7 hours drive but it felt much shorter. We had so much fun and the shit that happened in the car, some of it ain´t fit for printing hahaha! Big props to Villi who drove all the time. He brought some brilliant tapes for the ride. The bands most requested in the car were Limp Wrist and Dio. Does anybody remember Dio? Maybe some of you are too young or too punk too remember. It was this great metal band. They have so many amazing songs. Anyway, check them out if you wanna know your metal.
Our drummer Valur was busy with his other band (Andlát who just tear everything apart in a very metal manner) so he couldn’t come along for this trip. The last thing on our minds was to cancel this show, so what we needed was a fill in drummer who could help us out. We knew about Óli (Mannamúll, Reaper, Fake Disorder and many other bands) so we called him up cos we’d seen him often at our shows dancing like a maniac. We figured he’d be familiar with our songs. It turned out that he was and we did two “broken” practices with him. We weren’t tight and he wasn’t too sure about how some of the songs went but we didn’t care. We just wanted to play and Óli did too. He has a great attitude and he really got interested in hardcore during those days with us, him being a metal kid. It was just so much fun having him with us. He saved this trip.
On our way we pulled over for a break in Villi´s hometown called Hvammstangi )a town of 600 or something...). His mom made us great dinner and we ate like crazy. Villi has a funny dog. We saw for the first time pictures of Villi as a kid. He was dead funny then like he’s now!
We bought this crap “candy” called Sour Blast at the town’s gas station. It’s just the most useless at weirdest candy ever. It’s this fluid that you’re supposed to pump in your mouth. It has this really sour flavor that lasts for a couple off seconds and that’s it! We thought it was so stupid that we wanted to buy it. Needless to say we proceeded to pump this fluid on our various body parts and it was funny as hell. We had so much fun with this crap that we called our trip The Sour Blast Tour. Yeah, we are very easy to please hahaha!
When we pulled into Grindavík our buddy and Óli´s band mate, Reynir called us. He was in Húsavík and had hitchhiked from Akureyri for this show! Talk about hardcore! He turned out to be one of the funniest guy’s we’ve met. We had a blast together. You rule man!
We met Þórir and the guy’s in his band in the towns youth club. They were setting up the gear for tonight’s show. We were really happy to see him. Ah, he had a new fancy haircut. Very cute! For some reason the amps kept braking down during the sound check. In the end we got an amp that worked but sounded terrible. Who cares. After the sound check we walk around town a bit and ended up in this very nice restaurant to eat. At this restaurant we proceeded with all our stupid stunts and games. I believe the staff in this place was only too happy when we left.
This was a very special show. Not only was it our first show in the north of Iceland but also the line up was pretty damn weird. In a good way though. The first act were these six girls from Norway that played music not unlike the one you hear in Lion King or something. Like this kind of “drumming on wood” African style music. It was great! They happened to be in town on their cultural trip or whatever. Someone thought it was a good idea to ask them to play with us. It was a nice idea. Cool! Next on were Ben Húr (locals). They were tight but their music wasn’t very interesting and they seemed bored. Their set was much too long. They played for about an hour and a lot of people left while they played. It was really boring at the end. Lost came on next, Þórir´s band. They were much more fun. Very metal they were. Their drummer could be tighter and they didn’t have any bass player. That would help their sound. They had a really special sound and when Þórir sang it gave it a good edge. He doesn’t have that brutality going on in the same way as the lead singer. It was cool. The crowd held back but they listened. Lost covered Nora´s “Travellers”.
We could wait to get on there, cos we were in such a good mood. We just knew it would be good. When we came on there were about 50 people there, maybe slight more, I couldn’t figure it out. The most important thing was that these people waited for us and we were ready to play. As soon as we hit the first note those in attendance started dancing. As our set progressed the dancing got wilder and more fun. We were going off big time and our limps and axes were flying all over the place! We did a lot of silly stuff and said all kinds of crap between songs as well us addressing some serious topics but it was all smiles and good times and the crowd fed off it. Some kids were even singing along. When we wanted to do our last song the electricity blew out. We had no electricity in the youth club and it also blew out in the hotel next door and they were having this grown-up´s dance thing going on there hahahaha! Too bad the power went off cos we were ready to play “Young Until I Die”, with Birkir drumming and Óli taking care of the vocals. That would have been fun. It’s a great song to get unfamiliar people into the hardcore action. But there the show ended and we were out of breath and good time was had by all.
After the show we went out with the guys from Lost and their friends. We watched the video from that very show and listened to good music. It was nice. Great kids. It’s really a good feeling knowing that there are a couple of hardcore kids out there. We wish there were more in our city and on the countryside. What we do with I Adapt is what we offer for that to become reality. It’s an alternative that we wanna push as far as we can.
We slept at Þórir´s place and it was just nuts! The shit that went down there was so hilarious and I could write an essay about it. The day after we ate French fries and said goodbye to our newly made friends in Húsavík. We want to thank the Lost guy’s and Þórir from the bottom off our hearts for making the effort to bring us over. We can’t wait to get back!
On our way back home we behaved like mad people and had a blast. Once again we pulled off in Villi´s hometown and got something to eat. We also got half naked and very intimate in the car. It was just lovely.
Sour Blast Tour was the greatest!!

Gamla Sjónvarpshúsið
05/03/2002

Gamla Sjónvarpshúsið, 5 Apríl 2002

Another large gig and this time it was situated in one of the better venues we have seen lately, a big and very dark hall in the old national tv house. There was a huge sound system and during our set our good friend Raggi handled the sound and executed it with style. The evening started with a band called Noise who are a grunge band and are very tight and good at what they do. Next up were DUST, a nu-metal band who are also very good at their thing. Our set didn’t start well since Villi broke a string in the beginning of the first song and was more or less out of tune for the rest of the night. We thought our performance was awful but some nice people managed to convince us that it wasn’t actually all that bad. We did joke a lot and at least we thought it was funnyJ There was quite a large pit and people seemed to be enjoying themselves and after all, that is what we are all aiming for. We played a new song that doesn’t have a title yet and it seemed to go down well, it is a fast one and will probably (hopefully) be a live favorite in the future. We also had our first “wall of death” at this show and that was fun (and funny). Snafu, Andlát and all the other bands delivered good sets as we have come to expect from these great bands. Afterwards we all went to a big party that the guy who arranged the show was hosting and had a great time with all our friends. Another great example of what a good scene we have when it comes down to it.

Grindarvíkur trip - 23/01/2002
23/01/2002

Hell. Something told me this was gonna be a good show. Grindavík is a very small town. To our best knowledge no “hard hitting” bands have played there for the youth of the town. We were thrilled to be the one´s bringin’ it to them. But honestly we didn´t know what to expect. A small town and all we knew nobody there listens to hardcore. That´s a good feeling. Then you know that you are doing something fresh and hopefully ignite some kid´s intrest in hardcore and punk.
Villi got us a bus. That´s cool cos we could bring some of our friends with us. Árni, Smári, Erna, Eva and the mighty Tinna came along for the ride. We had a blast on our way to Grindavík. Showing our asses(mooning) everybody´s face. All those unlucky drivers who happened to drive along our bus or worse – be right next to our bus on a red light hahahahahaha!!! We ate stuff and sang some cool tunes as we listened to Villi’s brilliant mix tapes.
When we arrived we were greeted by the staff of the towns youthclub(Þruman) were we were due to play. There were some cool kids there who talked to us. The local band that was to play with us, called Predator was already there putting up amps and the equipment for the show. These guys were young! We did a short soundcheck. It sounded good enough for us. The next thing to do was to screw around and wait for the gig to start. We watched Animal Planet on TV. It was great. We also played table soccer and billiard. Cool!
Predator opened. The played alot of covers (Blink 182, Green Day, Weezer etc.). They were obviously new to this kinda thing. Very young guy´s. They´re only gonna get tighter in time and hopefully we’ll play with them again and that way we can see their progression. They were very shy. Their singer was awesome by the way...
When we came on there were around 50 people in the room. Great. A good turnout in a small town at our first ever gig there. Nice – boy were we ready to rock!
We were rocking out big time and alot of the audience was shy and stood as far away from the band as possible. There was no stage. We were just running around on the floor. As our set reached it´s second half the kids were right in our face dancing with us. It´s an amazing feeling! Just seeing the connection between the band and the crowd coming alive. We felt like we were creating a revolution. Our friends who came along from Reykjavík were dancing and who´s better to “demonstrate the style” than Árni goodguy!? When we played “Of U-turns and Roadkills” the kids started dancing and having fun! At the end of our set we did the crucial “introduce those not in the know to classic hardcore fun” by covering 7 Seconds “Young Until I Die”. We tought them the chorus before we started playing. Birkir took over the drums and Árni took over the mic. Right there everyone was dancing and singing along with us. Even Smári was dancing(when did that last happen?)! This was just beautiful. I think we made a very good lasting impression with those kids and we felt good. We also made some friends along the way.
Oh yeah. There was this one kid who knew all the words to our songs. How fucking cool is that!? You rule dude!!! We forgot his name but we´ll meet again. We just can’t wait to play in Grindavík again. Bring us over there a.s.a.p. We´re ready!!