Who Knew?

…Here you can find some random and interesting info gathered from all over the place….

 

•    When the guys had just signed their deal with Columbia they were living in a shitty place in New York, not believing any of what they were doing was actually happening. One day a deliveryman came up to their door with a check for $50.000 , again, not believing in it too much they place the cheque upon the fireplace for a few weeks. Then one night when they are just drinkin beer and recording stuff, Stoney gets into a cleaning mania, in the mania he throws away the $50.000 check, later they found out that those $50.000 were a real payment from Columbia. The guys are still said to be angry at Stoney ;o)

 

 

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Who knew Ómars suitcase had so much fun. After returning from America one time all the guys luggage was lost, everyone exept Ómar got their luggage soon after that. But Ómar waited for a month without hearing anything about his luggage. Then a friend of his fom L.A. called him and told him that the U.S Army had his suitcase. The suitcase had accidentally been put on a military airplane which was on it’s way to Rammstein, Germany. Nobody recognised it there and it was sent to New Jersey where a military commander finally opened the bag and found his friends phonenumber and called him, he then called Ómar and the circle was closed. The interesting thing is that the suitcase was well labelled on the outside “Ómar Örn Hauksson” it’s a mistery how all this happenned.

 

 

•    Once at a show in Canada, Sölvi was playing his cool card and threw his drumsticks in the air prepared to catch them again, but, the stick landed on the space bar on his computer.. they use Protools at shows and the show couldn’t be continued without restarting the program and people noticing.

 

•    The man who welcomed the guys at the airport when they flew to America from Iceland to start their big tour in 2002, is named “Sven Adams” he is half swedish and half american, he was also the tour manager.

 

•    The bus that the guys had on their tour in america in 2002 was equipped with 12 bunkers, a sitting room with a sattelite TV, DVD player and computergames and a small kitchen with a lounge. The guys had rotated between hotels and airports for a month when they got the bus and felt it was a home away from home.

 

 

•    The driver had driven for the band “New Kids On The Block” and used to DJ for “Vanilla Ice”

 

 

•    When the guys did a performance of Stick’em up for the Howard Stern show, Sölvi was a little eagre and fell backwards off his chair and landed with his back on a brick resulting in him having to go to the hospital.

 

•    DJ Muggs from Cypress Hill calls the guys of Quarashi: “My Icelandic hom’s!”

 

•    Punk was the first song written for the album Xeneizes, it was created in august 1998.

 

 

•    When Quarashi released the single “Stick’em up” online at www.mbl.is, on september 17th 1999, the first person who downloaded it was “Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir” who then was the mayor of Reykjavík.

 

• When Quarashi was touring in 2002, Sölvi made the mistake of leaving an open container of milk on a table, their tour manager noticed and screamed at Sölvi for doing it and was ready to attack all of the guys because he believed that milk which is left on a table will turn into poisonous liquid. Thus he received the nickname: The Milk fit man. Let this be a warning to us all. ;o)