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!!