Mike Lindsay - CHEEK MOUNTAIN THIEF

Mike Lindsay's love affair with Iceland starting in 2006 with a girl, KEA, and an unforgettable New Year's Eve party. 2011, makes Lindsay - better known as the front man of Tunng - back on to Iceland, to spark not only the romance back, but also an album under the name "Cheek Mountain Thief" record, inspired by the landscape and the people of Iceland.The idea is born 2010, as Iceland Airwaves festival invited to Tunng. With the return to London Lindsey plague the thoughts of Husavik, the small fishing village in northern Iceland, which he attended together with Harpa: "It struck me: if I love this place so much why do not I just move there for a while? "
Tunng while taking a break, Lindsey takes the next plane to Husavik for a few months to build a studio, to record an album and Basilea simple Icelandic life. "Over the following two months I settled into a very simple life," says Lindsay. "I worked until six then went for an afternoon swim and hot tub politics with the old guys. All of life's problems are discussed in the hot tub. I remember in the first week plugging in the guitar, turning the amp up, standing on the porch looking at the mountains and just playing, loudly, for hours, not another soul around. It was like a never-ending music video. "Together with the inhabitants of Iceland and the borrowed exclusively from their instruments takes Mike Lindsay "Cheek Mountain Thief" on, which is in Reykjavik with Gunni Tynes remixed by Mum.At this time, Lindsay has been completed with mentally London: "I had fallen in love with this new life and Harpa here, (...) The record had become the story of this new life. What a year ... what a place ... What an experience. "
The eponymous album "Cheek Mountain Thief" issued on 17 August on Full Time Hobby / Rough Trade - folky, poppy, Icelandic.