independence

When punk arrived in Iceland, we weren’t fighting against Margaret Thatcher ; for us it was more like declaring independence from the Danish. We were singing songs in Icelandic and being very punk, patriotic, and Viking.

My mother and father were born in the year of independence [1944] so it took that generation to get their heads around the fact they were actually their own person. So it was the role of my generation that really broke off.

Nzherald , 24.11.2007