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Elliot Minor
Origin	York, United Kingdom
Genre(s)	Rock Pop Punk Pop Rock Indie rock Neo-classical Symphonic Rock
Years active	2005–present
Label(s)	Repossession Records Warner Bros. Records
Website	Elliot Minor's MySpace [1]
Members
Alex Davies Ed Minton Dan Hetherton Ali Paul Teddy Hetherton

Elliot Minor (formerly The Academy) is a band from York, UK. They cite among their influences The Shadows, Muse, The Noise Next Door, MC Hammer and Fairground Attraction. The band is classically trained and the music is a fusion of classical and rock. Their first three single releases all charted in the UK Top 40.

1 Lineup
2 Band History
3 Discography
- 3.1 Singles
- 3.2 Albums
4 References
5 External links

Lineup

Alex Davies (Guitar,Piano,Vocals and Songwriter)
Ed Minton (Guitar and Vocals)
Dan Hetherton (Drum and Backing Vocals)
Ali Paul (Piano and Keys)
Teddy Hetherton (Bass)

Band History

The band is comparable particualry to McFly not only in the way they were formed but also in the music they produce. Alex Davies is the creative force behind the band. He was born into the world of classical music, and was expected to become a concert violinist, but when he met Ed Minton at Uppingham School in 2000 his eyes were opened wide to the world of rock. Overnight he went from listening to ‘Adagio for Strings’ to Green Day, The Starting Line, Something Corporate, Blink-182 and The Ataris. Alex and Ed quickly became great friends. Elliot Minor started as an acoustic duo (Alex Davies and Ed Minton) in 2004/2005. In their last year at school, Alex and Ed got serious about the band and built a simple recording studio in their attic flat, where they spent every spare minute writing songs, recording demos and performing. At the end of their time at Uppingham, they both decided to take a gap year to develop the band and Alex built a more sophisticated home studio in his garage. They made great progress, but something was lacking: they needed a drummer. In October 2005, Alex Davies and Dan Hetherton found themselves at the Minster School in York, both picking up younger brothers. They arranged to have a jam back in Alex’s garage and shortly after, the original duo became a trio. The three began recording new songs, improving old songs and sending out demos. For their live performances, a keyboard player and a bass player were needed, so Ali Paul, a childhood friend of Alex, and Teddy Hetherton, Dan’s brother and also a childhood friend of Alex, were invited to join the band.

Elliot Minor is classically trained in the violin, piano, clarinet, cello, double bass, saxophone and singing. Alex, Dan and Ali were choristers at York Minster Choir School, while Ed Minton, born in Japan, began his education in England as a chorister and ultimately head chorister at St John’s College, Cambridge. In a few short months the band was signed to Repossession Records, a new label founded by former MCA Vice President and Head of A&R Gary Ashley, who is credited with signing and developing legendary acts including Kylie Minogue, Blink-182, Shaggy, New Found Glory, Something Corporate, Aqua and Sublime among others.

In November 2006, they flew out to Los Angeles to record the first single with producer Jim Wirt (Hoobastank, Incubus, Something Corporate, Jack’s Mannequin) in Los Angeles, California. After hearing the track, Neal Avron (Yellowcard, Fall Out Boy) offered to mix the record and, of course, the boys accepted. Their first single, Parallel Worlds, was released on April 9th, 2007. Parallel Worlds is energetic rock track, driven by guitars, but woven together with violin and piano. The song is about the spooky/paranormal events that occurred in Alex and Ed’s attic flat at school. Alex swears the room was haunted. Drawers would fly open, lights would swing and posters would mysteriously peel off the wall. In the video for the single the boys rehearse the song in a spooky old room, and as they play the energy from the music is transferred to the objects around them. The single entered at number 31 on the UK Singles Charts where it featured for one week in April 2007.^[1] Prior to this it had already been playlisted on major channels such as Kerrang! TV, MTV2, The Box and The Hits.

Elliot Minor currently have 26+ songs recorded and are still writing and recording. All material to date are original songs written and recorded by Elliot Minor or Alex Davies, the frontman. Their debut album is completed with release scheduled for February 2008 (it was November but at recent gigs they have stated it has been completed but pushed back to make way for a fourth single). Their second single, 'Jessica', was released August 6th. It was playlisted on Kerrang! TV, The Box and The Hits and MTV Hits, and was ranked 19th in the UK chart for one week in August 2007.^[2] The band have said the song is about the Fantastic Four star Jessica Alba. The song includes many quotes referring to Jessica and her career. "Jessica" was originally known as "Walk With Me". Every Monday, the band posts a new webisode on to their MySpace. Elliot Minor have played numerous small gigs in their local area, including The Mount School, York where there was no entry fee. Since March 2007, they have been touring around the country including Scotland, on their "Glorious Nonsense Tour". Locations include the Fez Club Reading, Brighton, Southampton, Cardiff, Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Leeds, London, Glasgow and Birmingham. The majority of the venues booked are smaller halls within various Carling Academies. They were the second band to play on the Dimebag Darrell Stage on Saturday 9th June at the Download Festival 2007. The Band are back on another tour in October/November and this is also the first time the band will be playing abroad in Ireland with 2 gigs in Dublin and Belfast. They are to be the headline act at ButserFest on September 15th 2007, Queen Elizabeth Country Park. On August 25th, 2007, the band supported Fall Out Boy in Edinburgh due to Cobra Starship dropping out. The band stated that they had only met Fall Out Boy the previous day. Elliot Minor's third single, titled "The White One Is Evil" was released on October 29th and reached number 24 in the charts. However, as with the previous singles, it only held its position for a week before dropping out. Still Figuring Out was announced November 14 2007 as the fourth single from the debut album to be released in January. They have another UK tour starting in January and ending in April of 2008, while Kerrang! Magazine in the UK have said the album will be self titled "Elliot Minor", and that it's release date is in May. This has yet to be confirmed by the band, however.

Discography

Singles

Date	Single	Album	UK	UK Indie
April 9 2007	"Parallel Worlds"	TBA	31	1 (1)
August 6 2007	"Jessica"		19	1 (1)
October 29 2007	"The White One Is Evil"		27	N/A
January 28 2008	"Still Figuring Out"		N/A	N/A