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Purrkur Pillnikk

Band, IS
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Purrkur Pillnikk ('Sleepy Chess-Player') was a rock band from late punk era in Iceland. The band existed for 18 months (1981–1982) and were very active as they released at least two LPs, one live-album and two EPs. The distinguishable character of the band were Einar Örn's howling and off-key singing and his lyrics that most often described very day-to-day things but with a lot of interwoven angst. Members of the band later found themselves in KUKL, or in 1986 in The Sugarcubes.The band toured Britain with the Fall in 1982. Some of those dates are listed below:

Members

	Einar Örn voc, tr *1962
	Bragi Ólafsson b, eb *1962 IS
	Friðrik Erlingsson g *1962