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23 October 2007
Modular will release WBA in the UK, single of 'Burning' (backed with '24k') out November 5th, album 'Dreams' out November 26th. 12 October 2007  1 October 2007 Rubies album 'Explode From The Center' will be out October 6th in Japan with label Rallye/Klee. Eirik and Kommode collaborated to this album, you can listen to the song 'Too Bright' here. 29 September 2007 Welcome to the KoC Indonesian fanpage! 28 September 2007 The Whitest Boy Alive nominated for best electronica at Alarmprisen. You can vote for them here (just select them and click on Legg igjen stemme). 17 September 2007 Two other gigs in Norway: October 3rd in Bergen at Hulen October 4th in Stavanger at Checkpoint Charlie. 14 September 2007 KoC will play at Uka Festival in Trondheim October 7th (thanks Øystein for the tip!). 17 July 2007 Married Couple did a rework of 'Parallel Lines' that you can listen here. 16 July 2007 Maximilian Hecker has released a cover of 'Homesick', you can listen to it here. 20 June 2007 'Casualities', the Phonique song featuring Erlend, is out as a 12 inch single with two remixes. You can listen to them here. 2 June 2007 Erlend is releasing a new solo album on July the 1st. It's called 'Øye Como Va' and you can watch the first video on his new site. Update: take it with a pinch of salt, because there are too many mysteries in this story. Update two: Erlend confirmed that it's a fake. 30 May 2007 Kommode recorded two songs for Rubies next album, hopefully to be released at the end of the year. Some interesting tidbits about Erlend and Eirik in this interview with the girls. 25 May 2007 Here's the translation of the interview posted yesterday (thanks to Martin Nordsletten!). 24 May 2007 According to this interview (in Norwegian, complete translation would be welcome), Eirik is leaving politics to devote himself to music and parenting (yes, there's a baby coming in August). (Congratulations to Eirik and Ina and thanks Zu for the tip!). On June the 1st at 9 p.m. CET, Italian Radio 1 will broadcast the concert The Whitest Boy Alive played in Milan on April 29th. You'll be able to listen to it on the net here. 16 May 2007 A recording of the Kommode+WBA gig in Paris at La Flèche d'Or is available here (thanks Arnaud!). Kommode songs titles are temporary until pressing and unfortunately first half of 'Samba' is missing. 3 May 2007 Phonique's new album 'Good Idea' will be relased on May 8th by Dessous Recordings. It features another collaboration with Erlend, 'Casualities' of which you can hear a snippet here. 26 April 2007 Go listen to the first Kommode song online, 'Patient'. 23 April 2007 News from KoC myspace: " yo. we have started visiting the studio in bergen again. demo'ing some songs for a 3rd album. we are both living in bergen now, which obviously helps the chances that we might get somewhere. until myspace finds a way to get rid of all the spam, we will disable the comment-function. as 95% of all messages sent to us here are either spam or a one-line message, we rarely check those messages. leave a commment in the kingsofconvenience.org guestbook instead. erlend, april 2007" 5 April 2007 Kommode will only support WBA from the Munich to the Amsterdam gig. 4 April 2007 Change of venue for the WBA+Kommode gig in Cologne, it's now at Bogen 2. 1 April 2007 Tellé will release an EP by Kommode titled 'Under the Autumn Star' on June 4th. Here's the tracklist: 01. Look Back On Happiness 02. Ghosts 03. Spring Night 04. The Birds 05. Ice Palace 06. Hunger Eirik vocals in all songs except 'Look Back On Happiness' and 'Hunger' where it's Øystein Gjærder Bruvik that sings. Another Kommode song, 'Jenny', will be featured on the Tellé compilation out on May 14th. From today until Friday, exclusively on this site, an mp3 from the EP each day, starting with 'Look Back On Happiness'. Enjoy it! Update: oups, none of this news is true and the mp3 actually it's Rufus Wainwright singing 'April Fools'. :p 30 March 2007 The venue for the WBA+Kommode gig in Paris on May 2nd has changed, now it's at La Flèche d'Or. 29 March 2007 You can download Erlend concert in Porto Alegre here, thanks to Broona who recorded it. 28 March 2007 Watch the video of 'Golden Cage' by Geoff McFetridge (thans Zu for the tip!). 27 March 2007 Erlend will join Rubies on stage for a couple of songs on March 30th in San Francisco at Rickshaw Stop. You can buy tickets here. 26 March 2007 Here's a video-interview with Eirik as architectural psychologist (in Norwegian). 12 March 2007 Erlend collaborated to Phonique's next album 'Good Idea' to be out in May, more details soon (thanks Zu!). 9 March 2007 Concierto Radio recorded Erlend's gig in Chile, you can download it here (thanks Zu for the tip!). 7 March 2007 Eirik sings with Feist in 'How My Heart Behaves' from her upcoming album 'The Reminder' out in Europe April 23th and May 1st in the rest of the world. 4 March 2007 If you want WBA merchandise, they've just created a webshop. 28 February 2007 KoC will also play March 6th in Mexico City, always at Polyforum Siqueiros. You can buy tickets here (thanks Zu!). 27 February 2007 Three other gigs for WBA+Kommode: April 29th in Milan at Magazzini Generali May 10th in Leipzig at Conne Island May 12th in Berlin at Tape 18 February 2007 New WBA+Kommode gigs in Germany, France and Belgium, check them out here. 13 February 2007 The Whitest Boy Alive and Kommode in Amsterdam at Paradiso May 3rd (thanks Stefan for the tip!). 6 February 2007 'Shooting Silvio', an Italian film-documentary about ex Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi that features Erlend as himself, will premiere in Bologna at Link on March 3rd. Here you can watch the trailer with Erlend singing 'Fine Day'. 3 February 2007 KoC are going in studio in Bergen in May. 2 February 2007 KoC will play in Mexico City at Polyforum Siqueiros March 7th (thanks Mihu23, Zu and David). 1 February 2007 KoC will play at Slottsfjell Festival next July, date to be announced (thanks Zu for the tip!). 26 January 2007 Erlend will play in Brazil, Porto Alegre at Goethe Institut January 30th (thanks Bruna for the tip!). 25 January 2007 Here's the winner of the 'Golden Cage' video contest. 2 January 2007 The Whitest Boy Alive are nominated as best electronica music at Spellemannprisen (the Norwegian Grammy). 2006 news archive 2005 news archive 2004 news archive 2003 news archive 2002 news archive |