Purrkur Pillnikk

Purrkur Pillnikk ('Sleepy Chess-Player') was an Icelandic punk band who existed for 18 months (1981–1982) and were active in releasing 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 and the Sugarcubes. The members of Purrkur Pilnikk were: Ásgeir R. Bragason, Bragi Ólafsson, Einar Örn Benediktsson and Friðrik Erlingsson, the latter three formed Smekkleysa / Bad Taste publishing house in Reykjavík with friends and were also members of The Sugarcubes. 
==Links To Peel==
Peel probably first heard the band when they were planning to tour with The Fall in the UK during May 1982. On his BBC Radio One show on 28 April 1982, he played their track "Fullkomnum" (Perfection). There is no evidence so far whether he played any other tracks from the band. Einar Örn, the singer in an interview with the Guardian in 2015 mentioned listening to Peel's show in 1977 in Iceland by realising that he could park his mother's Sunbeam car in a certain position, where he could pick up BBC Radio One listening "to John Peel, playing the Ramones”. 
==Shows Played ==
thumb|335 px|Purrkur Pillnikk - Fullkomnun(The list maybe incomplete. Please add further information if known.)
1982
*28 April 1982: Fullkomnun (LP - Googooplex) Gramm
==External Links==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
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