This week, our coverage of Day 3 of the 2014 G! Festival. We'll hear some music from Marius, Ave, and Confect. We'll sing along on the beach and then evacuate from an oncoming flood. It's another soggy, late night at the coolest music festival in the world.
This week, we talk to Birgir Kruse and Eiler Fagraklett about the short story, "Manor." It was written 130 years ago by a German man considered the world's first gay activist. "Manor" is a vampire story set in the Faroe Islands. We'll talk about how this work finally got translated into Faroese and about the groundbreaking life if its author.
This week, a tribute to our good friend Jennifer Henke. She was one of the first guests on this podcast back in 2009, and she also participated in our first Nordic Obsession Tour this past summer. This show includes highlights from her several appearances on the podcast. UPDATE: Jennifer Henke passed away on December 27, 2014, about two months after this show posted. She was 68 years old.
This week, a debate between Hans Hermansen and Pete Bethune on the contentious subject of Faroese whaling. The debate is hosted by our own Heri Simonsen and was aired live on Ras 2. It is our hope that forums like this will help interested listeners on both sides of the issue to better understand what people on the other side of the divide think.
This week, we sample music from day two of this year's G! Festival. We'll hear music from Allan Tausen, Eivor, Lover Lover, Swangah, and ORKA. Then we steal food from Eivor's grandma. Really.
This week we listen in on a Q&A session Sea Shepherd leaders did at a democracy festival in the Faroe Islands. Sea Shepherd volunteers spent the summer "monitoring" beaches in the Faroes in an attempt to prevent any whale hunts from taking place. At this forum, SS volunteers attempted to explain their views to a crowd that, at times, was quite hostile.
This week, we recap some of the action on the first day of this summer's G! Festival. We'll also talk to Greta Svabo Bech about her recent successes, including being nominated for a Grammy and getting an invitation to play this year's Iceland Airwaves festival.
This week we talk to Woody Wright, an American gospel country singer who peformed in the Faroe Islands this summer. Then we'll offer a former apology to a hotel.
This week, we talk about the new Faroese Academy of the Arts. Two of the school's directors talk to us about their plan to bring high-level art instruction to the Faroe Islands. Then we'll visit a nearby village and think of a friend.
This week, we talk to two Danish filmmakers about their documentary on Nordic music. The pair spent much of July talking to Faroese musicians and trying to figure out what defines the so-called Nordic sound. While their project isn't finished yet, they're already got some fascinating insights about Faroese music and the people who create it. Then we head out to windmills that generate electricity and try to avoid flying liquids.
This week, Heri Simonsen interviews podcast host Matthew Workman for a special Olavsoka edition of his radio program. They'll talk about the national holiday, the recent Nordic Obsession Tour Workman led, and Heri even asks some questions about a certain group of activists calling the Faroes home this summer.
This week, part two of our conversation with conservationist Pete Bethune. He founded Earthrace Conservation and hatched a plan to send hundreds of activists to the Faroes to interfere with whale hunts. He eventually abandoned the plan when he determined it would be counter-productive to his goals of ending Faroese whaling. In the second half of our conversation, Bethune talks about why he objects to the whale hunts and how he believes they might eventually end. He'll also talk about the moment ...
This week, part one of our conversation with Pete Bethune. Bethune is a conservationist and animal rights activist. A couple of years ago, Bethune was preparing to assemble a group of 150 activists to patrol the beaches of the Faroe Islands and disrupt any whale hunts. But when Bethune traveled to the Faroe Islands to do some advance work, he abandoned those plans, even though he still strongly opposed the whale hunts. This week, Bethune talks about his first impressions of the Faroe Islands and...
This week, we talk to the brewmaster for Faroe Beer. The brewery started in 1888, and alcohol was banned in the Faroe Islands about a dozen years later. But Faroe Beer is still around and they're back to brewing one of their signature beers.
This week, we talk to three people from Uruguay who traveled to the Faroes to make an ad for a South American credit card. They'd heard of a Faroese man named Ivan who is a mad supporter of Uruguay's national football team and decided to feature him in their ad.
This week, we talk to a former CEO of Vagar Airport, the only airport in the Faroe Islands. We'll talk about the challenges of operating an airport in the Faroes, and about the change that is coming to the facility.
About once a year, we like to check in with the neighbors, namely Shetland and Orkney. The island groups are the closest neighbors to the Faroes, and they share a lot of history. So we talk to Tom Ordeman about his experiences in Orkney and how that culture compares to the Faroe Islands.
This week, we talk to Faroese musician/producer/DJ Brynjolfur. He's been a fixture in the Copenhagen electronic music scene for several years, but the past few months have seen his career really take off. We'll talk about his newfound success, being Faroese in Copehnagen, and the early days of the Faroese music scene in the late 1990s. Then we'll watch a family play on a chilly beach. Also an update on our Kickstarter campaign.
This week, we launch our second annual Kickstarter campaign. We're raising money to return to the Faroes to record more episodes of our award-winning podcast. If you like what you've heard over these past 200 shows or so, please head over to our Kickstarter page and show us a little love. And because we're still about having fun, we'll play a rowdy singalong from last summer's G! Festival....
This week, we search for an abandoned city called Famara and talk to the man who started living there. We'll hear about his utopian vision for Famara, and the Faroese government's attempts to remove him from the land.
This week, we remember the final day of the 2013 G! Festival. We'll hear music from Hogni, Lover Lover, and a Faroese supergroup wearing gold lame suits. We'll also hear what is perhaps the silliest interview ever recorded with Teitir. It's all part of one of our most epically long podcast. Enjoy.
This week, we check out some of the action on day two of the G! Festival. We talk to people in hot tubs, row out to a boat reserved for VIPs and then settle in for some great music from Teitur, Eivor, and Brynjolfur.
This week, we take a look back at last year's G! Festival. We'll wander the festival grounds, talk to some old friends, and hear a little music from Marius, BYRTA and Frostfelt.
This week we talk to Birgir Kruse about the rapidly changing media landscape in the Faroe Islands. In less than a year, the biggest and oldest newspaper has closed, a brand new internet portal has started, a new radio station was born, and TV news took the summer off. Much to talk about in this episode. Then we'll head off to a village that is both so small and so industrialized that you may wonder if it's a village at all.
This week, we talk to a German football coach who is in the Faroes, and we stand outside a very nice prison.
This week, we talk to Birgir Kruse about putting together a Faroese atlas of the world. (Spoiler alert: it's WAY more complicated than you'd imagine.) Then we'll visit a village with not many people, but a lot of friendly ducks.
This week, we talk to Gutti Winther. He's a Faroese chef who is starring in a TV show highlighting food and tradition on all 18 of the Faroe Islands. Then we'll visit a village on the southern island, and check out the lineup for this year's Summer Festival.
This week, we learn about a major tunnel project in the Faroes that will connect Streymoy with two other islands. Then our good friend Heri Simonsen talks to an Englishman who is running a university in China and looking for a few good Faroese students. And finally, we take a windy walk to a place where people went to a lot of trouble to attend church.
This week, the second part of our conversation with Runi Nielsen, He's a Faroese conservationist and a leading voice advocating the and of Faroese whaling, We'll talk about the effectiveness of techniques used by foreign anti-whaling groups, and ask if whaling has any long-term furure in Faroese society. Then we'll head out into the rain for football (soccer) practice.
This week, we talk to Runi Nielsen. He's a conservationist and probably the leading Faroese voice speaking out against whaling in his country. Then we'll hear some music from the first five artists announced for this year's G! Festival.
