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Kings of Convenience in Singapore

March 19th, 2006 -- Posted in music | No Comments »

The Kings of Convenience were in town the last week… and I missed them!!!

(And my dear friend Mel did try to remind me… but it was too late. Nevertheless, thanks for the reminder, schweetiee…)

“The Norwegian pair creates lulling acoustic melodies and sing harmonies beautiful enough to make Simon & Garfunkel blush.” – Boston Guide

Once upon a time there was a fearless Nordic duo, who waged war on the world armed with only two soft voices and two acoustic guitars. Their names were Eirik Glambek Bøe and Erlend Øye, and like their Viking ancestors they crossed continents to bring their songs of love, heartache and life to the world beyond.

Soon strange tales began to filter out of an odd pair, who’d met at an inter-schools geography contest as children (which Erlend won by drawing a map of the world freehand from memory) that had later reunited in song, in a gloomy rock band that did Joy Division covers called Skog (Norwegian for Tree).

Destiny however had other plans, and soon it was goodnight Skog and the Kings Of Convenience were born.

With their delicate lush lyrics, the indie-pop duo were thrust into the public eye in 2001 with a magnificent debut album Quiet is the New Loud which sold more than 200,000 copies worldwide, garnered strong reviews and a cult following to boot.

Kings of Convenience is credited for spearheading the New Acoustic Movement, in the tradition of Simon and Garfunkel and Nick Drake. Fans of Belle & Sebastian and Elliott Smith would likewise be seduced by these sweater-clad dreamers.

One of the signature single “Misread”, which I believe many know the band by, is my favorite. It has meanings so real to most of us… on friends who have misread our good intentions and only left us with nothing more than disappointment. 








Misread

Check out other songs at the Kings of Convenience Jukebox or my past blog posts I Don’t Know What I Can Save you From and Toxic Girl.

Tomorrow May Never Come

March 19th, 2006 -- Posted in story | No Comments »


This is already the first hours of today, yet it is not yet tomorrow. Theoretically, once it’s past midnight, it’s the next day. Yet as long as the sun hasn’t risen, it is still today.

What brings us near towards tomorrow, when we feel less for today? We either feel delight in looking forward for a better tomorrow, or we dread it. Either way, tomorrow is treated with more attention than today.

Why not today? Why tomorrow?

Perhaps it is just our human nature… that we anticipate an improvement in tomorrow when today isn’t that great. Or, we try to drag today by wishing tomorrow may never comes (when it definitely have to) not realizing today is still today.

What about yesterday?

Yesterday is the culprit for making us remember tomorrow more than today. When we know what happened yesterday, we only think it may happen again tomorrow. But we forgot it hadn’t happened today.

Then we will sometimes remember too much of yesterday that we forget we still here today. And we often forgets that tomorrow is in our hand how it should happen.

Yesterday should be a lesson we learnt to help us to get by today, and tomorrow should be a target we set based on goods and bads of yesterday.

So we live today. And embrace tomorrow as another today when it comes.

Don’t rush… just walk.