I Was A King Concert History

I Was a King is an indie band formed in Egersund, Norway and based in Oslo, Norway, clearly influenced by acts such as Teenage Fanclub, Dinosaur Jr., and My Bloody Valentine. Their music is most commonly referred to as shoegaze and power pop.

May 26, 2009
I Was A King Empty Bottle Chicago, Illinois, United States
May 17, 2009
Casiokids / The Temper Trap / I Was A King Oakford Social Club Reading, England, United Kingdom
May 14, 2009 –
May 16, 2009
The Great Escape 2009
Mumford & Sons / The xx / Cage The Elephant / The Temper Trap / Kasabian / Marina / Metric / Bombay Bicycle Club / Metronomy / Peter Bjorn and John / Citizen Cope / The Maccabees / Crystal Fighters / Noah & The Whale / Django Django / Wavves / LIGHTS / Fink / Chairlift / Everything Everything / Black Lips / Blind Pilot / Dan Auerbach / The Joy Formidable / Villagers / Enter Shikari / The Charlatans / CSS / Mystery Jets / Ane Brun / William Fitzsimmons / Little Boots / White Denim / Mr Hudson / The Pains of Being Pure at Heart / The Big Pink / The Boxer Rebellion / Asaf Avidan & The Mojos / We Were Promised Jetpacks / Just Jack / Connan Mockasin / Heartless Bastards / Gang Of Four / Johnny Flynn / Slow Club / Ben Kweller / fanfarlo / Wolf Gang / Dan Black / Sea Power / Little Comets / School of Seven Bells / Cloud Control / Arkells / Cursive / Girls / Datarock / Beast / The Low Anthem / Idlewild / The Handsome Family / Titus Andronicus / Holy Fuck / Bell X1 / Hockey / Patrick Wolf / V.V. Brown / Racoon / Cocoon / The Veils / Wintersleep / Dan Mangan / Triggerfinger / British India / The Twilight Sad / Moriarty / The Soft Pack / Vivian Girls / The Invisible / Hey Rosetta! / And So I Watch You from Afar / We Have Band / Jesca Hoop / James Yuill / We Are the Ocean / Soap&Skin / Emmy the Great / Sophie Hunger / Thomas Dybdahl / Teenagers / The Hundred In the Hands / The King Blues / The Rumble Strips / I Blame Coco / TTNG / Frankmusik / Lightspeed Champion / Teitur / Maps / De Staat / The Pipettes / Chew Lips / Dinosaur Pile-Up / Neil Halstead / Liam Finn / The Acorn / The Leisure Society / Bashy / Casiokids / Evil Nine / Pulled Apart By Horses / Manel / Future of the Left / Naive New Beaters / Sharks / Futurecop! / Crystal Antlers / Marnie Stern / Juliette Lewis / Black Box Revelation / Times New Viking / Leona Naess / Evan Dando / Dananananaykroyd / Turbowolf / Polly Scattergood / Micachu & The Shapes / Speech Debelle / General Fiasco / S.C.U.M / Rainbow Arabia / Telepathe / Johnny Foreigner / Freeland / Riz MC / Smoke Fairies / Kap Bambino / Three Trapped Tigers / Trailer Trash Tracys / Peggy Sue / Lawrence Arabia / Solid Gold / Gran Ronde / Golden Silvers / Zach Hill / Dan Smith / Let's Wrestle / Hanne Hukkelberg / The Phantom Band / Abe Vigoda / The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble / Brakes / Fight Like Apes / Friendship / Iain Archer / Broken Records / Kissy Sell Out / Hjaltalín / The Apples / Sky Larkin / I LIKE TRAINS / Lay Low / Esser / Yves Klein Blue / Karkwa / Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu / DM Stith / Mirrors / Amazing Baby / Engine-EarZ Experiment / The Mae Shi / Woodpigeon / The John Steel Singers / Ohbijou / The Gay Blades / Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson / Phantom / We Are Wolves / Pure Reason Revolution / Filthy Dukes / 80Kidz / The Answering Machine / Grasscut / The Bewitched Hands / Theodore (UK) / The New Wine / The Shining / Miranda Lee Richards / Colourmusic / The Ghost of a Thousand / Alan Pownall / Shapes / Anita Blay / zZz / The Miserable Rich / Medusa / Post War Years / Kid British / The Deer Tracks / Flashguns / The Computers / Blue Roses / Duchess Says / Mika Miko / Thomas Tantrum / Aziz / Melissa McClelland / My Latest Novel / Beth Jeans Houghton / Die! Die! Die! / Ocelot / Banjo Or Freakout / I Was A King / My Tiger My Timing / Trip / Fan Death / Mutiny On the Bounty / Luke Doucet / Dark Horses / Found / Spires / Bearsuit / The Rogues / Hatcham Social / My Sad Captains / Exlovers / The Week That Was / Grammatics / I Heart Hiroshima / Heartbreak / Advaita / Fever Fever / Skint & Demoralised / Blakfish / Race Horses / Sweethead / The Boy Who Trapped the Sun / Harrys Gym / Your Twenties / LoveLikeFire / Mongrel / Phantom Limb / The Voluntary Butler Scheme / Baddies / The Chapman Family / Mechanical Bride / It Hugs Back / DE DE MOUSE / A Grave With No Name / Sad Day for Puppets / Mpho / Mike Bones / Official Secrets Act / Hot Leg / Yes Giantess / Tonight Is Goodbye / Gable / Thomas Truax / Dag för Dag / Crave / Betty and The Werewolves / Slaves to Gravity / The Brute Chorus / SJ Esau / Bang Bang Eche / Invasion / Ipso Facto / Magic Magic / Kurran and the Wolfnotes / Brian Borcherdt / Joe Gideon & The Shark / Swarathma / Soft Toy Emergency / Rebekah Higgs / Hexes / Calories / Males / Elle Bandita / Indigo Children / The Alexandria Quartet / Tommy Tokyo & Starving For My Gravy / Cuchillo / Throats / Gentle Friendly / Roses Kings Castles / Ou Est Le Swimming Pool / Ulterior / Gloria Cycles / Absent Elk / Mothlite / Catherine A.D. / Perfect People / Kaputt / Rosie & The Goldbug / Fanzine / Kasms / The River Phoenix / Adam Heldring / Screaming Tea Party / Koko Von Napoo / Gold Teeth / Swanton Bombs / The Locarnos / Tucker / Video Nasties / This City / Hospital Bombers / Planet Earth / Jaakko & Jay / Our Fold / Christopher Rees / The Mark Inside / Me My Head / Hoodlums / Citadels / Telegraphs / The Last Republic / Electric City / Betty Steeles / Panama Kings / To the Bones / Dirty Stop Out / Birdengine / Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man / Riddim Saunter / Threatmantics / Come On Gang! / Lyrebirds / An Experiment On a Bird In the Air Pump / TV Off / Tom Allalone & The 78s / Mean Poppa Lean / Giantess / Superfuzz / Ruby Jean & the Thoughtful Bees / Emily Baker / Kids Love Lies / 4 or 5 Magicians / Lightsgoblue. / The Moi non Plus / The She Creatures / Barringtone / Artefacts for Space Travel / London Blackmarket / Youves / Dimbleby & Capper / Nathan FLutebox Lee / The Balky Mule / Charlie Ash / Televised Crimewave / You Animals / The Shiny Brights / Ultimate Power Duo / Juliette and the New Romantiques / The Great Shakes / Lion Club / valerie francis / Kate Rogers Band / Rory McVicar / Joe Rose / Arthur Delaney / Pocket Lips / Hot Silk Pockets / Natccu / PUNCH & THE APOSTLES / Luke Doucet & Melissa Mcclelland / The Rouges / Cubrik / ANGEL PIER / Battletorn / Last Mango in Paris / Lonely Ghosts / Bonne Aparte / Snish / Girl In A Thunderbolt / Ezra Bang & Hot Machine / tin can telephone / Rodney Fisher / Charlie Calleja / Rgbs / i!AMYOU / Little Lost David / Meme Love / Nullifier / Baby Venom / Astro Firs / DJ Pdex / Geometri / Hunting the Minotaur / Butcherd Beats / The Electric Flowers / This Tawdry Affair / Cassie & The Cassettes / The Train Chronicles / ROCK i.D. / Northernxposure / Riot Lights Show all bands
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The Great Escape 2009 Brighton, England, United Kingdom
Show Duplicate for May 14, 2009
Apr 28, 2009
Gang Gang Dance / …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead / xzibit / Jackson Browne / Datarock / Sondre Lerche / Brandi Carlile / Angie Stone / Satyricon / Easy Star All-Stars / Silje Nergaard / Flying Lotus / Balkan Beat Box / Little Feat / Ha...
Gang Gang Dance / …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead / xzibit / Jackson Browne / Datarock / Sondre Lerche / Brandi Carlile / Angie Stone / Satyricon / Easy Star All-Stars / Silje Nergaard / Flying Lotus / Balkan Beat Box / Little Feat / Handsome Furs / Kaizers Orchestra / Candi Staton / Bo Kaspers Orkester / Lou Rhodes / Hawksley Workman / Bob Hund / wovenhand / Jim White / Hugh Masekela / Firewater / Seth Lakeman / Miss Li / YACHT / Liam Finn / Roy Paci & Aretuska / CC Cowboys / Holy Ghost / Cortney Tidwell / Hey Negrita / Sivert Høyem / Baby Charles / A Mountain of One / Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba / I Was A King / William Hut / Fred / Amy LaVere / Eli 'Paperboy' Reed / Casiokids / Rachel Unthank & The Winterset / Pee Wee Ellis / Carolyn Wonderland / Diskokaine / Jason Ringenberg / Virgin Passages / Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion / MADAM / Baskery / Moon Unit / Jessie Evans / The Legendary Tigerman / Hannah Holland / of Montreal / Get the Blessing / Georgia's Horse / Good Time Charlie / Storm Weather Shanty Choir / J.D. Souther / Pasión De Buena Vista / Bygdin / Untz Untz Djs / Velferd / Big Sandy & Los Straitjackets / Shemekia Copeland / Asel / PILS / José González Show all bands
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Bergenfest Bergen, Vestland, Norway
Feb 19, 2009 –
Feb 21, 2009
by:Larm 2009
Juvelen / Hjaltalín / Pony the Pirate / The Megaphonic Thrift / The New Wine / Tommy Tokyo & Starving For My Gravy / I Was A King / Harrys Gym
Various Locations Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Aug 23, 2008
Sufjan Stevens / wovenhand / Serena-Maneesh / Darren Hanlon / Elvira Nikolaisen / Ingrid Olava / I Was A King / Noxagt / Black Feather / Tones / Sarah Hepburn / Kloster / Happy Dagger / Steve Stevens Nordan Industrihall Moi, Norway
Jul 03, 2007
Deerhoof / I Was A King Café Mono Oslo, Oslo, Norway

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Roskilde Festival 2011
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 Roskilde, Zealand, Denmark
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)


How many concerts has I Was A King had?

I Was A King has had 37 concerts.

What genre is I Was A King?

I Was A King is most often considered to be Indie, Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Psychedelic Rock, Shoegaze, Power Pop, Norwegian, Modern Power Pop, Norwegian Indie, Norwegian Rock, and Oslo Indie.

When was the last I Was A King concert?

The last I Was A King concert was on August 06, 2019 at Øyafestivalen in Tøyenparken, Oslo. The bands that performed were: Andre Bratten / Bendik HK / Big Thief / Black Midi / Blood Orange / brenn. / Christine & The Queens / Connan Mockasin / Cult of Luna / Deathcrush / Earl Sweatshirt / Eliza / Erlend Ropstad / Erykah Badu / ezra collective / Farao / Fay Wildhagen / Fieh / Fontaines D.C. / girl in red / Hellbillies / Hollywood / Hot Snakes / hyukoh / I Was A King / IDLES / Jakob Ogawa / James Blake / Jonathan Wilson / Kadhja Bonet / Karpe / Kokoroko / Kommode / Laruel Halo / Lil Halima / Mae / Marja Mortensson / Misty Coast / Mitski / Motorpsycho / Moyka / NAO / Off the Meds / Ora The Molecue / Orville Peck / Parcels / Pen Gutt / Penelope Isles / Pom Poko / Pond / Protoje / Razika / Rex Orange County / Ricochets / Robyn / Safario / Sâver / Shikoswe / Sigrid / Silvana Imam / Slowthai / Soccer Mommy / Spurv / Stereolab / Sushi + Kobe / Tame Impala / The Cure / The Needs / The Ocean / Thea Hjelmeland / Tirzah / Turnstile / Unge Ferrari.

What setlist does I Was A King play live?

The songs that I Was A King performs live vary, but here's the latest setlist that we have from the April 17, 2019 concert at Le Trabendo in Paris, Île-de-France, France:

  1. Bubble
  2. Clouds
  3. Egersound
  4. Frozen Disease
  5. Run
  6. Hatchet
  7. Tiny Dots
  8. Winter Sleep
  9. Shake
  10. The Woods
  11. No Way Out

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