I found a clip of my dad, Tony Sandy, and Bobby Harrison being interviewed by an Icelandic presenter ahead of Europe coming to Iceland…
…and managed to track him down through some Icelandic contacts (Iceland is like that — which I love).
His name is Finnbogi Marinósson, and we arranged a call to talk about his memory of the interview.
He told me he’d been asked to interview them — and the beard shaving was completely unplanned. Just my dad and Bobby’s sense of humour. His reaction says it all… genuine shock, but he was such a great sport.
This is part of Bits + Bobs, an ongoing project piecing together fragments of my parents’ lives. I’m currently focusing on the Icelandic chapter — looking at that late 80s music scene and gathering memories from people who were there.
Both of my parents passed away four months apart in 2012, and revisiting this time now feels like a way of understanding it properly — from an adult perspective, but also through the eyes of my younger self. I was about seven, quietly in the background while all of this was happening. Now I’m piecing it together.
More to come.
Archival clip from an RÚV broadcast, recorded from a family VHS.
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