Eirik Glambek Bøe

Eirik Glambek Bøe born 1975 is from Bergen Norway and is a musician, writer and vocalist, best known for being part of the pop duo Kings of Convenience together with Erlend Øye. He h

Eirik Glambek Bøe born 1975 is from Bergen Norway and is a musician, writer and vocalist, best known for being part of the pop duo Kings of Convenience together with Erlend Øye. He has also studied psychology at the University at Bergen . Although his native language is Norwegian, many of his writings are in English.

He formed the band Skog together with Øye in the 1990s. They formed the Kings of Convenience in 1999 and released their first album, Quiet is the New Loud in January 2001. Øye had become interested in electronic music and in October of 2001 they released the remix album Versus. The single Toxic Girl brought Bøe's music to the attention of fans and received critical acclaim for its unpretentious simplicity and lyrical quality. In 2004 the Kings of Convenience released Riot on an Empty Street which was followed by a European and North American tour in 2005.