A Gentle Storm

“I met the Airbag guys at high school; we all wore Pink Floyd shirts on the first day which pretty much sealed our friendship!”

Bjørn Riis’ passion for Pink Floyd shines through his work both as a solo artist and with Airbag, the band he helped form in 2004. So it comes as a surprise to learn that his biggest influence is actually a theatrical hard rock band.

“When I was eight years old, I would stand in front of the mirror with a Flying V that my teacher had helped me carve from wood, and my face made up like [Kiss singer] Paul Stanley’s,” confesses the Norwegian musician.

“I grew up in the 80s so I did all the hair metal, and Kiss were one of the first