#Klemens Hannigan

[scarefox]

from the "A Song Called Hate" documentary

[guysofeurovision]

[hatari-translations]

Matthías and Klemens's Patreon show has a free episode up featuring Einar where they talk about their journey with Hatari! Lots of fun, juicy stuff here, including a snippet of a demo which I'm of course going to transcribe and translate.

[blcsphemy]

Hatari at Iceland Airwaves, November 2nd 2023.

So excited for what Phase III has to offer. 🖤⛓️

[thisisstanne]

My beloved angst-fic writers: if you aren’t listening to the amazing work of Klemens Hannigan as you write, are you even writing angst?

(His music deserves soooooo much more recognition than it gets. Seriously. Go sit in a darkened room and close your eyes and listen to these songs and then come back here and tell me you’re not changed as a writer, that this doesn’t deepen your fic’s angst by fathoms. It’s gorgeous and painful and hungering.)

[helloyurop]

me & my extrovert friend

[yourfavealbumisgender]

Neysluvara by Hatari is Asexual!

requested by anon

[yuri-vision]

been listening to alot of hatari recently

[scarefox]

from the "A Song Called Hate" documentary

[guysofeurovision]

[hatari-translations]

By the way, if you haven't seen, Matthías and Klemens have a new English-language podcast/show together on Patreon called "Seasons of Friendship", which is ultimately sort of a nice excuse for them to get together and hang out and create something now that Hatari can no longer serve that purpose in their lives.

In the first episode, released yesterday, they discuss Matthías's departure from the band, some stories of their time in the band and musings on the overall experience, and more. There is unfortunately no free tier (the lowest tier to gain access to the episodes is $7 a month), but I at least enjoyed the show and do recommend it if you can spare the money and miss hearing the two of them be dorks together.

[hotonhoth]

This is going to sound crazy, but I kind of felt Dansið eða deyið, the tour, and the music video, was the coda or conclusion of an anti-capitalist tale told by Hatari. (I know it was from an earlier song they wrote years ago, having listened to it many times). And that would inevitably mean an end to their performances.

The video was incredibly nostalgic, with reference to all of the interviews, Iceland Music News stuff, and Eurovision. It's the handshake in the video, the eurovision routine being acted out by little hatari, and even the message in the song itself, that seemed to summise an anthology of the corruption in everyday life. To dance or die. It's impossible to live an anti-capitalist life when our only option is to earn money to eat and have a home. Either we make money or we dont live. I've always seen the music as part of a performance, like theatre, so each song tells us a tale of capitalism and the expectations in society we face. I think of William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience. So, being a performance or a story, it does have an end. I just didn't want to admit to myself that it was indeed the end of something. It does mark the end of an era, which is sad.

I'm not sure if there will be more performances in the future, but I feel like it will be very different, if Matthias did decide to get into it again.

However, I think it's a very honourable thing to get a full-time job and to take care of one's family, and make that a priority. Matthias is totally right to stop doing something he doesn't enjoy anymore. And it is exhausting to combat capitalism every day or to keep thinking about it. There is some irony that Matthias is a copywriter, writing to sell products, something that might manifest itself in his screenplays, perhaps! As he says, the writer never dies.

Aside from that, going on holiday or getting takeout with friends, or buying a new pair of shoes, or spending time with family - those things are what makes life pleasant, they are comforting, and they are totally needed. Sometimes, it is better for one's mental well-being to take the sedative rather than feel the constant pain of the world's injustices.

What I really want to know is, what will happen to all that pleather?

[jesdamons]

matthías tryggvi haraldsson, hatari

[helloyurop]

my reaction when my boss asked me to revise my work for the 163957th time because I haven't added the vp's master's title to the poster

[klamstelpa]

Hatari under the Hatari fan

[storm-ec]

I fixed it...