This week the music festival All Tomorrow Parties (ATP) comes to Iceland for the third consecutive year. The festival takes place between 2 and 4 July at a former NATO base next door to Keflavik International Airport on Reykjanes peninsula, 30 minutes drive from the capital.
The festival’s settings are very impressive and unusual, to say the least, as hangars, runways and air traffic installations are still visible on the site.
ATP kicks off on Thursday when Iggy Pop, Public Enemy and a handful of local artists and bands perform. More than 30 bands will perform live over the course of three days. You can see the whole line-up and buy tickets a Midi.is.
ATP also host every year a number of uniquely intimate events throughout the UK, Spain, Australia, Japan and the USA.
A former US Naval Air Station
In 1941, the American armed forces came to Iceland to use it as a hub during WWII and the Cold War. The US Navel Air Station stayed long after the war ended becoming a miniature version of America within Iceland until it was closed in 2006.
The site is located only five minutes from Iceland’s main International Airport, 15 minutes from the Blue Lagoon.
This week the music festival All Tomorrow Parties (ATP) comes to Iceland for the third consecutive year. The festival takes place between 2 and 4 July at a former NATO base next door to Keflavik International Airport on Reykjanes peninsula, 30 minutes drive from the capital.
The festival’s settings are very impressive and unusual, to say the least, as hangars, runways and air traffic installations are still visible on the site.
ATP kicks off on Thursday when Iggy Pop, Public Enemy and a handful of local artists and bands perform. More than 30 bands will perform live over the course of three days. You can see the whole line-up and buy tickets a Midi.is.
ATP also host every year a number of uniquely intimate events throughout the UK, Spain, Australia, Japan and the USA.
A former US Naval Air Station
In 1941, the American armed forces came to Iceland to use it as a hub during WWII and the Cold War. The US Navel Air Station stayed long after the war ended becoming a miniature version of America within Iceland until it was closed in 2006.
The site is located only five minutes from Iceland’s main International Airport, 15 minutes from the Blue Lagoon.
