I didn’t want this photo. I was six and very shy.
My mum, Hafdís, bribed me with a My Little Pony stable and said I’d be thankful one day.
Backstage in Reykjavík, I sat in the green room doing a word search while Europe got ready to play to a packed arena. I think the venue may have been a converted horse stable — I need to check that.
My dad was the band promoter making it all happen.
Between 1986–1990 he brought bands to Iceland and somehow always found a way to make it work — alongside running his hair salon, Töff, on Laugavegur.
If only I’d had a camera back then.
This is the start of a new project: Bits + Bobs.
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