3 December 2002

Pics of the Source Christmas party feat. Erlend here.

23 November 2002

Erlend is on 'Seasonal Greetings - A Compilation of 13 Christmas and Winter Songs' out on November, 25 with the Wham! cover 'Last Christmas' (an acoustic version that he recorded in his apartment in Berlin).
Listen to a sample here.

22 November 2002

'Unrest', Erlend's solo album will be out on February, 10th and the video to the first single, 'A Sudden Rush' will be directed by Jarvis Cocker from Pulp. Don't forget to check out his tour dates.

16 November 2002

Erlend explains 'Unrest' song by song here. Contrary to the mp3s that circulate, 'A While Ago and Recently' is not with Timo Maas, but with the artists formally known as Op:l Bastards.
The first single from 'Unrest' should be 'A Sudden Rush' out in January 2003. Meanwhile there are 12" promos of 'Ghost Trains' and 'Symptom of Disease'.

7 October 2002

Added the lyrics to the rare 'The Beat of a Drum' featured only on the 'Brave New World' Éllet EP (thanks to Scott O'Riorden).
Jolly Music releases today the vinyl-only single 'Talco Uno' feat. Erlend on vocals and lyrics. The song will be also on their album 'Jolly Bar' (due out October, 21st).

20 September 2002

Erlend's solo album 'Unrest' due out on October, 15th has been postponed to 23 March 2003. An advance copy circulates on the net, here's the tracklist (thanks Fabrizio):

01. Ghost Trains (with Morgan Geist)
02. A Sudden Rush (with Kompis)
03. Sheltered Life (with Soviet)
04. Prego Amore (with Jolly Music)
05. Symptom of Disease (with Mr. Velcro Fastener)
06. The Talk (with Bjørn Torske)
07. Every Party (with Prefuse 73)
08. The Athlete (with Minizza)
09. A While Ago and Recently (with Timo Maas)
10. Like Gold (with Schneider TM)

The Jolly Music's single 'Talco Uno' feat. Erlend has been delayed, too. It's slated for a vinyl only release on October 7th. 12" and 10" available with mixes from Prefuse 73, Tiefschwarz, Rob Mello and Mat 101.

10 September 2002

Listen to KoC's performance at 90.3 KEXP radio and watch Erlend's interview for Dotmusic.com.

26 August 2002

The Irish band Ash releases today the 2-part single 'Envy'. CD 2 contains 'I Shall Not Die' featuring our very prolific Erlend. ;)

17 August 2002

KoC are on 90.3 KEXP radio in Seattle at 4 p.m. PST today (live on the net, too). Listen here to their performance on WFUV 90.7 (9 August 2002). They are at 1h49min from the beginning of the show.

13 August 2002

August, 28th KoC will hold an exclusive gig at Den Nationale Scene in Bergen, the oldest theatre in Norway and for the first time opened to a pop concert. In order to get one of the 400 free tickets one has to be a first year student at the University of Bergen and to attend one of two special evenings at the Den Nationale Scene with both lectures and extracts from the plays the theatre is staging this autumn. Read more here.
'Total Lee! The Songs of Lee Hazelwood' compilation featuring Erlend is out now also in the U.S. Listen to a sample of his cover of 'No Train To Stockolm' and read what Hazelwood thinks about it here. Check out Erlend's solo tour dates.

4 August 2002

This week select stores are offering the chance to win a pair of tickets to see KoC's U.S. shows. Enter to win boxes can be found at the following music stores:
- Wed. Aug. 7 New York @ Angel Orensanz Foundation
Mondo Kims, NYC
Ear Wax, Brooklyn
- Fri. Aug. 9 Chicago @ Martyrs
Rock Records, Chicago
Reckless, Chicago
- Mon. Aug. 12 Los Angeles @ The Troubadour
Aron's, LA
Rhino Westwood, LA
- Wed. Aug. 14 San Francisco @ Great American Music Hall
Mod Lang, Berkeley
Streetlight Records, San Francisco
- Fri. Aug. 16 Portland @ Berbati's Pan
Music Millennium, Portland (2 locations)
- Sat. Aug. 17 Seattle @ Experience Music Project
Sonic Boom, Seattle
Orpheum Records, Seattle

Another upcoming release featuring Erlend's lyrics and vocals is Jolly Music's single 'Talco Uno' due out September, 2nd.

20 July 2002

Future releases involving Erlend: Röyksopp's single 'Remind Me' (vocals and lyrics) August, 5th; Dntel's EP '(This Is) The Dream of Evan and Chan' (vocals in the Safety Scissors remix) August, 20th and his own album 'Unrest' October 15th.
Listen to 'Feel the Fjords', a documentary of BBC Radio 1 about music in Scandinavia featuring, among others, an interview with KoC.
Read an interview for Zimmermag.com.

12 July 2002

Added a gigography.
Watch an interview and a performance of Winning a Battle, Losing the War in Italy in November 2001.

10 July 2002

New confirmed date for the U.S.A. tour:
12 August at Troubadour in West Hollywood, CA.

8 July 2002

Last Saturday KoC were at Meco Dance Festival in Portugal for a very appreciated gig featuring the unreleased song 'Everyone has got a friend in Stockholm' and a cover of 'Garota de Ipanema' sung by Eirik in a perfect Portuguese. Later Erlend made a DJ set with other artists songs and his own material. Read more about it here and here and two interviews from Y and Diário de Notícias (only Portuguese).

5 July 2002
 
Watch the K & M Session for Oui Rock in France on 19 December 2001 here.
It features the unreleased 'Cayman Islands' (it's not written, but it's after Toxic Girl) and 'I'd rather dance with you'.

4 July 2002

A report of Erlend's performance at Aquaplaning Festival from French newspaper Le Monde.
Two confirmed dates for the American tour:
7 August at Angel Orensanz Foundation in New York, NY;
9 August at Martyrs in Chicago, IL.
You can buy tickets at Ticketmaster.com.

11 June 2002

Added two interviews: one for the site of MTV Italia (that you can also watch clicking on the little yellow TVs here) and the other for MTV Italia Brand New (thanks Fabrizio for the tip). And lyrics to Cayman Islands (thanks Eirik Omvik).

24 May 2002

KoC are in tour this Summer (Portugal, U.S.A. and Canada). Check out their tour page. Erlend wi?ll be at the electronic music festival Aquaplaning at Hyères Les Palmiers in France on June, the 30th 2002.

19 May 2002

Until May, the 31st you can buy Versus and other Labels/Virgin albums at a special prize and have a DVD with 90 minutes of videos (among which Failure and Röyksopp's Poor Leno) at least in Italy (read more here), France (read more here) and Germany (read more here). (Thanks Fabrizio).

16 May 2002

Yesterday at a gig of Röyksopp in Paris, there were leaflets announcing Erlend's solo album. It will be out in September 2002 on Source and will feature Prefuse 73, Bjørn Torske and Morgan Geist (thanks Arnaud for the info).

13 May 2002

I've found out a three songs performance KoC did for dotmusic.com. Check it out here. They play 'Manhattan Skyline', an instrumental song and a cover of Magnetic Fields, 'The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side'.

12 April 2002

I've added a live session for French Radio Aligre in the audio pa?ge and a report from Norwegian TV2 on the video page.

3 April 2002

I've put an interview with Erlend on the audio page from NRK site.
You can listen to him talking about his project in Norwegian (if someone can translate, I'd be very grateful) and to some samples of his new songs.

28 March 2002

Welcome to my little site dedicated to the Kings of Convenience.
I collected all the material I could find about them.
If you have something new and want to contribute, please email me.
As for the news: Erlend is currently working on his solo project which will consist of ten songs from ten cities. Each track is worked out in close collaboration with local musicians. As far as I know he worked with Sneaker Pimps, Röyksopp, the Italian duo Jolly Music, the Finnish Mr Velcro Fastener, the Japanese Cornelius, the Swedish Kompis and German Schneider TM.
He has also contributed a track, No Train to Stockholm, to 'Total Lee!', a Lee Hazelwood tribute album released by City Slang and due out 3 June 2002.