Kings of Convenience are a music duo formed in Bergen, Norway, playing a style that features acoustic instrumental playing and their two voices. The band consists of Erlend oye and Eirik Glambek Boe.
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The Music (Australia)
February 23, 2024
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The duo's delicately plucked guitars blend together so mellifluously that it makes you wonder whether the contribution of electricity to popular music might have been overrated.
Bergen, Norway’s Kings of Convenience aren’t the kind of band you stumble onto easily. Arguably one of the most underrated folk-pop acts to come around in the last couple decades, the duo of Erlend Øye (also of the gentle indie-pop group The Whitest Boy Alive) and Eirik Glambek Bøe inspire a level of deep devotion
Kings of Convenience return to the live scene in Milano after a 5 year absence is unusual for a variety of reasons. This is one of the first concerts by an international group to take place in a theatre after the pandemic struck in Italy, way back in February 2020.
It's very rare to find two Norwegian schoolchildren who began their musical adventures through the forum of rap to go on to form a guitar music folk duo whose debut album title
The duo who gave new meaning to the term “quiet is the new loud” perform two shows at Royal Festival Hall this month. Sunday's matinee performance includes songs from their latest album,
The setting is an amphitheatre on the banks of Lake Garda and it seems many cool 20 to 30ish Italian boys and girls have decided to meet up and celebrate the band which with their 2000 album Quiet Is The New Loud helped create the new acoustic movement’ in pop’s underground scene.
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