Brain Farm Interview



Part One - Erlend from KoC faces the Brain Farm Questionnaire

December 2000

NAME: Erlend Oye

FRAME OF MIND: Happy

APPROXIMATE LOCATION: Royal Albert Hall in London 100 metres away

EARLIEST MEMORY: Desperately objecting to letting a babysitter put me in a cart and go for a walk

AND MOST RECENT: Going to Dublin to see Alfie play live

OPINION OF JOURNALISTS: On the good side

WHAT'S THE LAST SONG YOU HEARD THAT MADE YOU THINK "SHIT! I WISH I'D WRITTEN THAT!"?:
''The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side" by Magnetic Fields

MOST ROCK N' ROLL THING YOU'VE EVER DONE: Flown to New York to see a girl I had known for three days

FAVOURITE WELSH BAND: Super Furry Animals

CATS OR DOGS?: Cats

FAVOURITE SUPERHERO: Spiderman

WHICH OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS DO YOU ENJOY BREAKING MOST? Not to steal

IF YOU WEREN'T IN A BAND, WHAT WOULD YOU BE DOING: I would be a flagmaker

ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS YOU RECORDED AS A BAND WAS A COVER OF ''THE ETERNAL." HOW BIG AN INFLUENCE ON YOU ARE JOY DIVISION?
Rather small, I'd say. But I do like them a lot.

HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT OF TOURING WITH QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, SO AS TO BE THE KINGS AND QUEENS?
No. I would like to open up for Cradle of Filth, though.

Part Two - We see who the true king of convenience - it's a little known fact, that Erlend and Erik first met at a Geography contest when they were both very young. And, one of them can draw a freehand map of the world in five minutes. Armed with this most tenuous of links, the Kings of Convenience now take the Brain Farm "Capital Cities" Quiz.

Country

Erik

Erlend

Correct Answer

Bulgaria

Sofia

Sofia

Sofia

Vietnam

Hanoi

Hanoi

Hanoi

India

N. Delhi

New Delhi

New Delhi

Peru

Lima

Lima

Lima

Indonesia

Djakarta

Djakarta

(D)Jakarta

New Zealand

Wellington

Wellington

Wellington

Ethiopia

?

Addis Abeba

Addis Ababa

Saudi Arabia

Ryad

Riyadh

Riyadh

Nigeria

Lagos

Lagos

Lagos

Bolivia

La Paz

La Paz

La Paz

Score:

9/10

10/10


So there you have it, Erlend is indeed the KING of Convenience. Congratulations!

Thanks to Seth Carnill for playing delivery boy.

The Kings Of Convenience's debut EP 'Live in a Room' is out now on Source UK Records