Sigur Ros News

Sigur Ros have revealed their first live date in almost four years, announcing plans to play Bestival in September.

After a three-year hiatus, where frontman JA3nsi took to multiple projects that included solo album Go , side project Riceboy Sleeps and the soundtrack for Cameron Crowe's We Bought A Zoo , the prolific Icelandic band has announced they will be touring again in 2012.

Have you ever wondered what happens when a band regarded as avant garde, with a reputation for the unconventional, signs to a major label? Well for one thing, their music starts getting played by the BBC as backing for its programme tasters and if I hear "Hoppipolla" used in this way for another wildlife documentary I shall scream.

In the summer of 2006, Sigur Ros returned home to play a series of free, unannounced concerts for the people of Iceland.

Teachers at Liberty Middle School in Madison are pictured in a still from a video project done by the school's broadcasting class.