SINGAPORE SLING

Substrate Gallery is pleased to present a sound installation by Henrik Bjornsson and Helgi Orn Petturson, to perform a stripped down version of the band complete with red lights, smoke machine and larger than life taxidermist bulls head. Gallerist Ramses and Henrik had talked for years about getting the Singapore Sling to play the gallery, finally in 2012 this took place.

Singapore Sling was formed in spring 2000 in Reykjavík, Iceland, by singer, songwriter and guitarist Henrik Björnsson, aided by his friend, guitarist Einar Þór Kristjánsson. Björnsson had some 8-track demos and wanted to create a band. One of these demos was "Overdrive", which surfaced online on the Iceland Airwaves 2001 official website, and later became "Overdriver", the opening track on their first studio album.

Despite Björnsson's job as a bartender, the band's name did not come from the Singapore Sling cocktail but from a 1990 art film, Singapore Sling by the Greek director Nikos Nikolaidis.