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About Me

This whole mess started in 2005. We had ideas about what we wanted to do and through the bands short existence they have developed and grown. Now we do this because we have to.

Releases:
I: The end of every minute EP - self released(2006)
II: ...tell us how it ended, tell us how we died EP - self released(2006) *out of print*
III: Views of distant towns - 12 TÃ³nar www.12tonar.is (2006)
IV: Hand in hand with traitors, back to back with whores - 12 TÃ³nar www.12tonar.is (coming soon)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/21/2005
Band Website: viewsofdistanttowns.blogspot.com
Band Members: ÃžÃ³rir - guitar and vocals Kolli - vocals Addi - bass Sindri - drums
Influences: Spiderland, Jane Doe, It..s Me God, End Hits, The River Bed, Courtesy and Good Will Towards Men, Witness, The Shape of Punk to Come, Through Silver in Blood, We are the Romans, Blues Moderne: Danois Explosifs, Interviews with David Frost.
Sounds Like: Rocking out to alternative music while having a cup of ice-tea
Record Label: 12 Tonar
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

We have a proper blog site now...

Posted by Gavin Portland on Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:33:00 PST

Gavin in Kerrang! and Reykjavík Grapevine.

Because we're ecotistical jerks we decided to put up a couple of reviews our album has gotten lately, one from the noted Kerrang! magazine in England (thanks Paul) and the other from the most excellen...
Posted by Gavin Portland on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:56:00 PST

III: Views of distant towns in the UK

If anyone in the UK is interested in getting our new album you can contact us via myspace or email us at [email protected]'re selling it for £11 postpaid.rock out!
Posted by Gavin Portland on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 06:00:00 PST

III : Views of distant towns out now!!!

Our album is out and we're dead proud of it. It's out on 12 Tónar (www.12tonar.is) and people in Iceland should be able to walk out to the next record store to get it.People who live in other co...
Posted by Gavin Portland on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 06:01:00 PST

In the studio?

yeah, that´s right...last night we finished the recordings of our first full-length sceduled to be released in the middle of october by 12 Tónar.It doesn´t have a title yet but here...
Posted by Gavin Portland on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 02:13:00 PST

A new song..

I put a new song up, its called I dont think Im up for any more of this. Its from our second ep that will be out any day now. -rir
Posted by Gavin Portland on Fri, 07 Apr 2006 07:00:00 PST

Songs not working? Get them here!

For some reason myspace wont play our songs in most computers and it wont allow us to delete them either so we could upload them again...well, if youre dying to hear us you can get these two songs her...
Posted by Gavin Portland on Wed, 05 Apr 2006 05:22:00 PST

First EP ready

Our first release is now ready for some listening, it´s called I:The end of every minute. The first edition should hit the stores pretty soon, we think it´s going to go for 700kr. a piece. If ther...
Posted by Gavin Portland on Wed, 08 Feb 2006 12:51:00 PST

rocking out in the studio...

so we did it...finally...the first ep down, the first chapter done and we´re happy with it. Keep your eyes peeled coz it´ll be hitting the streets in no time. here are some pics of us being lame...a...
Posted by Gavin Portland on Mon, 30 Jan 2006 01:23:00 PST

NEWS! some good....some bad

Let´s keep this short. Here goes... Aight, next week we´ll hopefully start recording this fucking EP and that shouldn´t take us long once we start. Thanx to the Big Kahuna boys we´ll be able to...
Posted by Gavin Portland on Fri, 16 Sep 2005 06:25:00 PST