{"id":8264,"date":"2023-02-01T11:27:35","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T11:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musiktilraunir.is\/2022\/"},"modified":"2024-02-16T12:53:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T12:53:21","slug":"2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musiktilraunir.is\/en\/2022\/","title":{"rendered":"2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" type=\"1\" start=\"1\">\n<li><strong>place: Kusk<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>place: Gunni Karls<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>place: Sameheads<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<p><strong>The People\u2019s Band: B\u00ed B\u00ed &amp; Jo\u00f0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Best Singer: <\/strong>Svanhildur Gu\u00f0n\u00fd Hj\u00f6rd\u00edsard\u00f3ttir from B\u00ed B\u00ed &amp; Jo\u00f0<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Best Guitarist: <\/strong>Oliver Devaney from Sameheads<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Best Bassist: <\/strong>Fri\u00f0rik \u00d6rn Sig\u00fe\u00f3rsson from Project Reykjav\u00edk<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Best Keyboardist: <\/strong>Magn\u00fas \u00de\u00f3r Sveinsson from Project Reykjav\u00edk<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Best Drummer: <\/strong>Mikael Magn\u00fasson from Merk\u00far<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Best Electronic Musician: <\/strong>Kolbr\u00fan \u00d3skarsd\u00f3ttir from KUSK<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Recognition for Icelandic Songwriting:<\/strong> Kolbr\u00fan \u00d3skarsd\u00f3ttir from KUSK<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>The following 25 bands competed: <\/strong>Absence, B\u00ed B\u00ed &amp; Jo\u00f0, Donyen, D\u00f3ra &amp; D\u00f6\u00f0lurnar, Dusilmenni, flea market sweater, Gunni Karls, H\u00e1R\u00fan, Heagle, Hunulu, KRADAK, KR\u00cdSA, KUSK, Little Menace, Merk\u00far, \u00d3HP, \u00d3kindarhjarta, Project Reykavik, Purple9, Raggi J\u00f3ns &amp; band, Runes, Sameheads, S\u00f3\u00f0askapur, TTC, Woolly Mammoth\u00b4s.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Did You Know? <\/strong>Despite the ongoing impact of Covid-19, the IME still went ahead as planned at the end of March.\u00a0 The aftermath of Covid-19 did cause some disruptions, and fewer bands than usual registered to participate.\u00a0 As a result, there were only three semifinals instead of the usual four. For the first time in IME history, an individual was crowned the winner, rather than a band.\u00a0 The winner, KUSK, went on to participate in the Stage Europe Network project in the Netherlands and performed at the Westerpop music festival in Delft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The People\u2019s Band: B\u00ed B\u00ed &amp; Jo\u00f0 Best Singer: Svanhildur Gu\u00f0n\u00fd Hj\u00f6rd\u00edsard\u00f3ttir from B\u00ed B\u00ed &amp; Jo\u00f0 Best Guitarist: Oliver Devaney from Sameheads Best Bassist: Fri\u00f0rik \u00d6rn Sig\u00fe\u00f3rsson from Project Reykjav\u00edk Best Keyboardist: Magn\u00fas \u00de\u00f3r Sveinsson from Project Reykjav\u00edk Best Drummer: Mikael Magn\u00fasson from Merk\u00far Best Electronic Musician: Kolbr\u00fan \u00d3skarsd\u00f3ttir from KUSK Recognition for Icelandic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":8092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/musiktilraunir.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/MT2022_assetar-plakat-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musiktilraunir.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musiktilraunir.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musiktilraunir.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musiktilraunir.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musiktilraunir.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/musiktilraunir.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8265,"href":"https:\/\/musiktilraunir.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8264\/revisions\/8265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musiktilraunir.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musiktilraunir.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musiktilraunir.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musiktilraunir.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}