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FM Belfast Teaches Canadians How To Run Around Iceland In Our Underwear When It Is 20 Below.  Singer Lóa Hjálmtýsdottir in a mound of ribbons By Stephen Weir written for my Huffington Post blog Published in the Travel Section Caribbean Camera newspaper May 2018 Two men in front tried the impossible, putting on their pants while stumbling to the exit. There was    an urgency – it was 2 am and we were being herded out the concert doors into a normal Icelandic night. Black. Windy. Sub-Zero temperature. It didn’t take a detective to figure out that the laundry droppers were Canadians – the Roots labels gave ‘em away.    Not that anyone in the crowded Reykjavik art gallery cared about their lack of  trous . Blame the lack of clothes on the band that 600 of us had just seen. It was FM Belfast, one of Canada’s most favoured Icelandic bands. The veteran electro-pop group closed out the Airwaves music festival concert with a group participation song called Underwear.   Lóa