Photo Credit: Sigga Ella
Eivør has a voice like an avalanche dressed in a spider web, and a gaze that doesn’t just meet yours but reaches out and grips you by both ears, with an anchor in your soul. We’re backstage at Download Festival, ahead of her much anticipated set to headline the Dogtooth stage. She’s just arrived – thirty minutes ago, to be precise – but already, the storm is stirring inside her.
“Yeah, I’m feeling great,” she says, wide-eyed but steady. “It’s my first time here… but already, I love the vibe. I’m excited to see what’s going on tonight. I’m just going to take it all in.”
You get the feeling she means that in the purest way – this isn’t just another stop on the never ending tour calendar. Eivør absorbs places. Crowds. Moments. Energy. She makes them part of her. That’s why songs like Falling Free don’t just land – they leave her bootprints all over your soul.
I tell her its a song which makes me cry. Not sad tears. The other kind – the kind you only get when a song crawls into your chest and reminds you you’re still alive.
“Thank you… that means so much,” she says with genuine softness. “I wrote that song many years ago. It’s changed a lot over time I’ve taken in like, a lot of energy from the audience. It has kind of changed it a bit. And I love when songs are able to do that. They connect with people, yeah. And when you can, like, kind of move freely within them somehow. For me, it’s about something different every night, but it’s, it’s about, you know, surrendering to something, to kind of giving in to whatever is waiting for you, and embrace life, I guess.”
And that’s Eivør in essence: a voice not confined by genre or geography. A storm that knows when to whisper. And yet, she’ll admit, there’s always something fluttering in the stomach before a big one like this.
“Of course I still get a little nervous – there’s always a bit in there,” she nods. “But mostly, it’s just excitement now. We’ve been touring so much over the past two years. Well, there’s always a little bit of nerves tickling somewhere, but mostly excitement. And we’ve played so many shows, we’re in a good routine, I think. So yeah, I’m more excited.”
The rhythm shows no sign of stopping. From Faroe fjords to European festivals, the road keeps unspooling in front of her.
“We’ve got a busy summer – a bunch of festivals – and then I’ve got a big European tour this fall. And next year… Australia, and more places I’ve never been. It’s exciting. I’m enjoying life on the road.”
I ask her who inspires her which she answers after a brief pause of contemplation.
“Robert Plant. Björk. Radiohead. Massive Attack. Artists who don’t just sing – they feel. They express. I grew up with their sounds, and they shaped me.”
And what about her home – the Faroe Islands, those remote, windswept rocks in the North Atlantic? Does living in a remote community so far from the mainstream making breaking through any harder?
“Maybe I haven’t thought about it much for a long time, but I remember when I was a young artist, when I started at it when I was just 16, it felt like a very distant dream to me,” she reflected. “It’s not so hard to get my music out into the world, and we live so isolated from the world in Faroe Islands, that somehow, I guess, if you want to make your dreams come true, and you just keep working hard, you’ll find your way, I guess.”
She’s found her way, alright. And the Download crowd felt at first hand what that sounds like. Not just a voice – a force.
See Eivør live, with special guest Ásgeir and support from Elinborg, at one of the following dates:
September 2025
Fri 19th – GHENT, BE – De Vooruit
Sat 20th – BRISTOL, UK – Electric Bristol
Sun 21st – MANCHESTER, UK – New Century Hall
Mon 22nd – GLASGOW, UK – SWG3 Galvanizers
Tue 23rd – LONDON, UK – Electric Brixton
Thu 25th – AMSTERDAM, NL – Paradiso
Fri 26th – COLOGNE, DE – Carlswerk Victoria
Sat 27th – FRANKFURT, DE – ZOOM
Sun 28th – PARIS, FR – Casino de Paris
Tue 30th – METZ, FR – La BAM
October 2025
Wed 1st – ROUEN, FR – Le 106
Thu 2nd – MARSEILLE, FR – Espace Julien
Fri 3rd – TOULOUSE, FR – Interference
Sat 4th – PORTO, PT – Hard Club
Sun 5th – LISBON, PT – República da Música
Tue 7th – MADRID, ES – Mon Live
Wed 8th – BARCELONA, ES – Razzmatazz 2
Fri 10th – PRATTELN, CH – z7 Konzertfabrik
Sat 11th – VIENNA, AT – Ottakringer Brauerei
Sun 12th – STUTTGART, DE – LKA Longhorn
Tue 14th – KRAKOW, PL – Klub Studio
Wed 15th – PRAGUE, CZ – ROXY
Thu 16th – BERLIN, DE – Huxleys Neue Welt
Fri 17th – HAMBURG, DE – DOCKS
Sat 18th – COPENHAGEN, DK – Poolen
Sun 19th – LUND, SE – Mejeriet
Tue 21st – HELSINKI, FI – House of Culture
Wed 22nd – TAMPERE, FI – Tavara Asema
Fri 24th – GOTHENBURG, SE – Filmstudion
Sat 25th – STOCKHOLM, SE – Fållan
Sun 26th – OSLO, NO – Sentrum Scene
Tickets are on sale HERE.
