Venues in Iceland -#6

Faktorý

Faktorý was the last incarnation of Grand Rokk and, outside of the signage, I don’t think there was much of a difference. During the day the downstairs was the province of chess players and bar flies. At night the place was lively, the plaza in front of the venue filled with scene-sters:

Inside, it could become quite sauna-like and, with no coat check, it was easy to get over heated:

Vicky ripping it up in 2009:

It was always intimate and sometimes became magical:

Soléy 2012

This venue was demolished, lost in the great Reykjavík hotel building boom of the last decade, but my memories of the performances I saw there still live on:

Vicky, 2009

And, finally, a moody video of Samaris, October 10, 2012: