Prog

Brave The Elements

“I’m a frontman, I love the spotlight,” Magic Pie vocalist/guitarist Eiríkur Hauksson says with some amount of vigour, giving you absolutely no reason to doubt him.

“My mum told me that when I was four years old she had a little chair, and when she was having guests I would get that chair, place it in the middle of the living room, and stand on it and sing. If she didn’t think it fitted too well and she asked me not to, then I’d just cry until I could perform.”

Hauksson has come a long way since standing on chairs at his childhood home in Iceland and singing for visitors. His audience in 2019 largely consists of fans of Magic Pie, the Norwegian prog rockers whose stock

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