Venues in Iceland -#6

Faktorý

Faktorý was the last incarnation of the bar/music venue Grand Rokk Outside of the signage, I don’t think there was much of a difference getween the two. During the day the downstairs was the province of chess players and bar flies. At night the place was lively with the patio 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:

So many great shows, Vicky ripping it up in 2009:

It was always intimate and sometimes 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, here is a moody video of Samaris, October 10, 2012: