Trinity centre, BristolIn a show that blends pop and panto, the jocular Icelander has the hooks to transcend one-hit-wonder status
Daði Freyr has a question. “Who here thought we’d be six people in green jumpers doing a dance?” he asks, eliciting some cheers, a few laughs and enough shuffling of feet to suggest that some people, at least, expected precisely that. Such is the lot of the viral hitmaker.
At the height of lockdown last spring, the video for Daði’s Icelandic Eurovision entry Think About Things, released with his green jumper-clad band Gagnamagnið, blew up, its homespun choreography held aloft by TikTokkers and celebrities as a sort of Agadoo for our plague year. But with its purpose as a makeshift communal experience served, its Berlin-based creator seems keen to spit in the eye of expectation.
Daði Freyr is on a
UK tour until 26 November.