Happy Birthday ‘Ágætis byrjun’

To mark the 10th anniversary of the Icelandic release of their breakthrough album ‘Agaetis Byrjun’, Sigur Rós have made available two exclusive live performances from the original launch party concert at the Icelandic Opera House on the night of June 10, 1999 – back when few people outside Reykjavik hadn’t the foggiest clue who they were.

‘Nyja Lagid’ video – filmed originally for Icelandic TV and unseen for years, shows the boys when they really were still boys, performing a song that never made it onto Agaetis Byrjun (or any subsequent album) and disappeared from their set-list shortly after this date.

~ by Félix Adorno on June 30, 2009.