Todmobile promises new twists at concerts marking honorary award

Icelandic band Todmobile will perform at Harpa, a concert venue, on Friday and at Hof, a cultural centre, on Saturday. The shows will celebrate the group’s honorary award from the Icelandic Music Awards earlier this year, mbl.is reports.

The concerts will trace the band’s career from its early years to the present. “We’ll put on a varied show and bring talented people on board,” musician Eyþór Arnalds, one of the band’s members, told Morgunblaðið.

Todmobile was one of Iceland’s most popular bands around and after 1990, playing well-attended dances and concerts around the country. Its energetic playing, strong rhythms and Andrea Gylfadóttir’s powerful vocals helped it quickly build a following. The band later went on hiatus, but its songs have endured, and it has performed regularly in recent years on selected occasions.

“Whenever we’ve performed in recent years, we’ve always brought in something new and unusual. There’s always a new sound in some way,” Eyþór said.

The current lineup consists of Andrea Gylfadóttir, Þorvaldur Bjarni Þorvaldsson, Eyþór Arnalds, Eiður Arnarsson, Ólafur Hólm Einarsson and Kjartan Valdemarsson. Guests at the concerts include singer Jónína Björt Gunnarsdóttir, a 50-member choir from the Filharmónía singing society, the Siggi String Quartet and clarinettist Guðni Franzson.

Singer and actor Eyþór Ingi Gunnlaugsson will be a special guest. He has taken part in several of Todmobile’s biggest concerts and recorded two albums with the band.

The setlist will include some of Todmobile’s best-known songs: “Stelpurokk,” a hit from the 1989 album “Betra en nokkuð annað”; “Stúlkan,” which is still frequently played on the radio; “Eldlagið,” from the 1990 album of the same name; and “Pöddulagið,” as well as “Ég heyri raddir” and “Lof mér að sjá.” Both concerts start at 8 p.m.