A NEW EERA
Regardless of your personal view on things like fate and destiny, sometimes small gestures of kindness can allow incredible journeys to occur. For EERA (Anna Lena Bruland) this moment happened around the age of 15 when a friend gave her a burned CD of
Rated R by Queens Of The Stone Age. “I’d constantly listen to it on my Discman trying to not let it skip when I was walking. I absolutely loved it. Before this I was listening to more Norwegian singer/songwriter folk artists like Ane Brun and Thomas Dybdahl. When I got introduced to music from the States and the UK it completely changed my idea of what music could be. From there I moved onto Nirvana, diving deep into all the rock stuff and after Nirvana came Radiohead and PJ Harvey. I just took it all in. It was great.”
It was at this point Bruland picked up her first guitar, developed an interest in songwriting and at 18 decided that in order to develop her craft it was time to relocate from her native Norway. “I always wanted to move to England because my
