31 Facts About Mugison

Mugison was so fascinated by Kjartan's mysterious presence, most notably his hair, that he sought him out and requested the musician teach Mugison how to become an artist.

Mugison chose this particular school because of its large amount of alumni that were musicians, most notably Pall Oskar, whose music Mugison enjoyed.

In 2000, Mugison went to London's Middlesex University to complete a Bachelor of Arts in Recording Art.

Interested in creating more portable music options, Mugison visited an Apple Store to enquire when the laptop would be big enough to handle music, only to be told by a salesperson, unequivocally, that laptops would not ever be big enough to make music.

Whilst working on his debut album, Mugison spent a lot of time listening to Andy Votel and Matthew Herbert, both of whom Mugison credited as influential in his music career.

Mugison sent a copy to Matthew Herbert who ran Accidental Records, as Mugison was a great admirer of his work.

The artwork for the record and all subsequent Mugison CDs were all handmade.

At this point in his career, Mugison had never played a live gig.

In 2003, Herbert was booked on a three-week DJ tour of Japan; during this tour Herbert insisted he perform live, as his support act, thus Mugison began to finesse his live performance one-man show.

The Mugison show in the early days consisted of himself, alone with a guitar and various gadgets.

Mugison had discovered Ableton Live by this point, and played around with looping and various other tricks that the software enabled him to conjure up.

Mugison played wild, crashing guitar while mixing vocals and distorted breathing through a laptop.

Mugison was booked to play at Sonar 2003 in Barcelona, which turned out to be a monumental turning point in his career.

Mugison moved to Reykjavik to release the album and perform at Iceland Airwaves Festival 2004.

Mugison had his album release party at the NASA venue, which completely sold out.

Mugison got the idea while in London one summer performing at a Rough Trade music festival that lineup included a host of up-and-coming talent.

Mugison thought it would be fun to put on a similar festival only a bigger and more weird in Isafjordur.

Mugison talked to some musician friends and everyone got excited about the idea.

Mugison said they were "cutie pies" and for a long time they thought that meant "yes".

Mugison invited popular acts to perform, but he extended the invitation to musicians with far lower profiles everyone from the local elementary-school choir to high-school garage bands to Isafjordur leather-sporting hair-metal act The Nine Elevens.

Mugison premiered the instrument at the inaugural Sonar Reykjavik in February 2013.

Mugison created another soundtrack for a film by the name of A Little Trip To Heaven.

Mugison moved back to The Westfjords with his young family, bought a house, converted the garage into a studio and started jamming with friends, this was going to be the basis of the next record.

Mugison wanted the album to sound timeless, so that one could not identify when it was recorded, the album comprises many different rock influenced styles including heavy, light and George Harrison-esq sounds.

Mugison sold this through his website and completed a sold-out tour of Iceland with Bjorgvin Gislasson.

Mugison was asked to participate in an Amnesty International charity event whereby he played all 5 boroughs of New York in one day.

Mugison performed the three concerts in one day, and they were all at maximum capacity.

All Mugison's albums are handmade, so to create 30,000 became a full-time job for some of his friends and family.

Mugison's father is a karaoke singer, and as the crowds at the karaoke bars in the small fishing villages they were touring had problems pronouncing his name, they came to call him Mugison.

Mugison is the Icelandic naming convention for the surname of someone who is "the son of Muggi".

Mugison's family is often involved in the making of his music.