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November 2006
Do you want to book Erlend? Here are the possibilities. 23 November 2006 Erlend is going to play some gigs in Brazil in December, check out dates and details in the gigography. 16 November 2006 A correction about Cornelius' song 'Omstart' featuring Erlend. It also features Eirik vocals and both KoC collaborated with Cornelius for the lyrics (thanks Akira for sending me the CD credits!). 14 November 2006 KoC will play in Bergen at Johanneskirken November 17th. More infos here (thanks Marita for the tip!). 19 October 2006 Erlend sings in the song 'Omstart' from Cornelius' new album 'Sensuous' out October 25th. 18 October 2006 Erlend's collaboration with Kompis is on sale (mp3s or limited edition 7 inch) here. 12 October 2006 Kommode are going to record at least 3 songs, according to what they write on myspace. 28 September 2006 From WBA myspace: munich secret show at Zundfunk we are playing a show on friday to be recorded by zundfunkradio. there is space for 60 people. 8.30 - 10.00 write to us at bubbles@whitestboyalive.com and get on the guestlist! (only way to get in) marcin and erlend 20 September 2006 Here's Erlend covering The Cure's 'Boys Don't Cry' during the shooting of the 'Misread' video in Versailles park (thanks to François Néméta, the director of the video). 19 September 2006 Rubies talks here about recording with Kommode. 13 September 2006 Eirik from pop to politics: according to Dagbladet and Bergens Tidende, Eirik is considering to participate at next year Bergen's city council elections as a candidate for the liberal party Venstre (thanks Joe for the translation). 11 September 2006 Kommode has a myspace page here (thanks Stefan for the tip!). 5 September 2006 Eirik will support The Whitest Boy Alive in Kristiansand at Charlies Bar today and in Stavanger at Folken tomorrow with his new group Kommode. Some infos here (thanks Øystein for the tip!). 31 August 2006 '24k', a new song to listen to on The Whitest Boy Alive myspace page. 2 August 2006 Here's a recording of the gig at Skåtøy Kirke (thanks Lars!). 1 August 2006 The 7 inch of Kompis feat. Erlend (a previous version of 'All Ears') will be released by Kompis own label Off the Wall in September with an untitled b-side. 31 July 2006 Some new gigs for The Whitest Boy Alive in Germany, Switzerland and Iceland. All about them here. 28 June 2006 Erlend plays guitar in 'S'kcorratiug', a song from Schneider TM's latest album 'Škoda mluvit'. 26 June 2006 Check out some new gigs of The Whitest Boy Alive in Italy, Sweden, Norway and Denmark here. 10 June 2006 Two new KoC gigs announced: July 8th: St. Petersburg, Russia, Bridge Lounge July 29th: Skåtøy, Norway, Skåtøy Kirke 9 June 2006 Some gigs in Italy for The Whitest Boy Alive: June 30th: Turin at Spazio 211 for Spaziale Festival July 27th: Bologna at ex Convento di Santa Cristina August 4th: Verona at Green Fly August 5th: Urbino at Fortezza Albornoz for Frequenze Disturbate Festival For all the Italian fans: go visit the KoC Italian forum. 1 June 2006 Do you like The Whitest Boy Alive album? Help Erlend spreading the word! 27 May 2006 Star You Star Me have just released (only in Finland), 'Simple Things', their debut album featuring a collaboration with Erlend, 'A Place In My Heart', that was out in 2004 as a 12 inch single. 25 May 2006 Here you can listen to 'All The Way To China', a song featuring Erlend from the soon to be released album of James Figurine, Mistake Mistake Mistake Mistake (thanks Jaqueline for the tip!). Three Summer gigs announced: July 6th: Riga, Latvia at Sapņu Fabrikā July 21st: Tønsberg, Norway for Slottsfjell Festival July 22nd: Molde, Norway at Romsdalsmuseet for Molde Jazz. 14 May 2006 Erlend will dj in Catania at Mercati Generali June 24th for the Flow.er Festival. Some infos about the Kompis track directly from Erlend here. 12 May 2006 A new collaboration with Kompis for Erlend. You can listen to this yet untitled track here (thanks to shakas for the tip!). 11 May 2006 You can now preorder The Whitest Boy Alive album 'Dreams' here (you'll get it May 31). 9 May 2006 You can listen to a new song, 'Above You', on The Whitest Boy Alive myspace page. 8 May 2006 The Whitest Boy Alive's 'Dreams' tracklist and artwork:  01. Burning 02. Above You 03. Inflation 04. Fireworks 05. Done With You 06. Don't Give Up 07. Figures 08. Borders 09. Golden Cage 10. All Ears You can now order here the single 'Burning/Inflation'.  4 May 2006 A little correction from Service Records about The Whitest Boy Alive releases with their press sheet (thanks Ola!): Single: WHITEST BOY ALIVE “BURNING/INFLATION” SERV026 May 17 Album: WHITEST BOY ALIVE “DREAMS” SERV027 June 1 Whitest Boy Alive is Erlend Øye’s new band from Berlin. They’ve left the electronic music to again find the sound of a group of people actually playing together, thus having recorded the album live in their studio (which used to be DDR leader Erich Honecker’s secret room in Café Moscau) without layering, editing or effects. There is the guitar, the bass, the drums and the voice. And the result is astonishing. Erlend’s breezy yet intimate voice and every tone get the same amount of room and care in this airy and personal ten song production. And each and every song is as strong, making “Dreams” an outstanding album and “Burning/Inflation” a, well yes, double A-sided single. Still, the band’s background in club music can’t be missed at their live shows: the vibe is quite high when they mix the songs together with a steady kick drum dj stile, ending their set with a version of "Music Sounds Better With You", Erlend crowd surfing but ending up stuck in the disco ball... A truly original pop band making the simplest sounding songs the hardest way, making us feel the beautiful sounds of human interaction again. 28 April 2006 Here's a video live session of The Whitest Boy Alive and here's an audio interview in Swedish (about after 36 minutes from the beginning of the program) for Swedish radio P3 (thanks KlaraJ for the tip!). 26 April 2006 Swedish label Service will release The Withest Boy Alive single 'Burning' May 24th and the album 'Dreams' June 21st (thanks Jaqueline for the tip!). 17 April 2006 Two new gigs of The Whitest Boy Alive: May 18th in Leipzig at Die naTO for the Pop Up Festival and June 1st in Bergen at USF Verftet for the Natt Jazz Festival. 13 April 2006 From a blog about Feist, All Things Feist, two excellent solo versions of 'The Build-Up': one from a gig in Paris and another from a gig in Chicago. 12 April 2006 The Whitest Boy Alive debut album 'Dreams' will be out in May. Smalltown Supersound will release it in Norway and Denmark. Some news of another Erlend's collaboration: he's singing in 'All The Way To China', a song from 'Mistake Mistake Mistake Mistake', the forthcoming album of James Figurine aka Jimmy Tamborello, to be released on July 25 by Plug Research (thanks Angela for the tip!). 5 April 2006 A new song, 'Burning', up on The Whitest Boy Alive myspace page. 1 April 2006 I'm happy to announce that after six years together, Eirik and Ina got married yesterday in Bergen. Eirik gave me permission to share this news and Erlend is going to send me some pics of the marriage that the couple chose to make public. As soon as I have them I'll upload them. Update: here are some very nice pictures of the marriage. :) 28 March 2006 KoC will play in Spain: May 1st at Teatro de Cervantes in Málaga. You can buy tickets here (thanks Carlos for the tip!). 21 March 2006 You can listen to an mp3 of 'Garota de Ipanema' , an Antonio Carlos Jobim cover, from the gig in Bandung here (thanks to A.!). Erlend will dj in Jakarta at Manna House March 24th. 6 March 2006 Four other gigs of The Whitest Boy Alive announced. 1 March 2006 'Dead End', new song on line at The Whitest Boy Alive Myspace page and a video featuring Erlend posted by Jens Lekman on his official site (thanks Antje!). 25 February 2006 KoC will play in Lisbon at Aula Magna (Universidade de Lisboa) April 29th. All the details and where to buy the tickets here (thanks Nuno for the tip!). 21 February 2006 'Golden Cage', new song on line at The Whitest Boy Alive Myspace page. 20 February 2006 Check out The Whitest Boy Alive tour dates here or on their Myspace page. 13 February 2006 Other date for KoC in Indonesia: March 19th in Bandung at Sunan Ambu STSI. Only 500 tickets, presale starts today at FFWD Records/Monik House, Setiabudhi 56, Bandung, tel 022-2032740 (thanks Ben!). A new interview with Eirik here (thanks Flauntaneous for the tip!). 10 February 2006 For those who can watch French-German TV Arte, on February 14th at 1.15 a.m. there will be a reportage from Bergen, Musique des fjords / Musik aus den Fjorden, in the program Tracks. It features Annie, Röyksopp, Datarock and Eirik (thanks Jenny for the tip!). 8 February 2006 Listen here to 'Promise Less Or Do More', a new song by The Whitest Boy Alive. 3 February 2006 An interesting interview with Eirik about his choice of films (thanks Lori for the tip!). 27 January 2006 KoC will play in Indonesia: March 18th in Jakarta, Upper Room 12th FL @ Hotel Nikko Jakarta. Presale tickets available from February 1st at Aksara Bookstore (Kemang, Plaza Indonesia, Cilandak Town Square), FFWD Records, Aquarius Mahakam - Jakarta, Aquarius Dago - Bandung. Limited space, so hurry up! (thanks Indra!). 19 January 2006 KoC will tour Japan: March 10th in Osaka at Shinsaibashi Club Quattro and March 12th in Tokyo at Shibuya Club Quattro. Tickets available here. 12 January 2006 In addition to the KoC performance at Mosaic Music Festival in Singapore, Erlend will also do a DJ set for the same festival on March 15th (thanks Aileen for the tip!). 9 January 2006 From Jens Lekman official site: "Me and Erlend are inviting you to a very spontaneous show at Pustervik in Göteborg tonight. We just didn't have much to do and decided it'd be fun to play some songs. There will be tunes by Kings of Convenience, Erlends solo records, his new "the Whitest Boy Alive" project, a few of my songs and some covers. A quiet and warm acoustic night. Just 40 kronor." 5 January 2006 Contrary to what was announced, KoC weren't at yesterday's Concerto dell'Epifania in Naples. :( 2005 news archive 2004 news archive 2003 news archive 2002 news archive |