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Elliot Minor Timeline
Dan Hetherton, Teddy Hetherton, Alex Davies, Ed Minton and Ali Paul.
2000 - 2004
Alexander James Davies and Edward Jun Minton met age 13 at Uppingham school.
Alex was planning on becoming a concert violinist before Ed introduced him to rock and punk music.
Together they would play acoustic cover versions of popular songs by bands such as Green Day and Blink 182.
2005 -
Alex persuaded Ed to take a gap year from school to focus on making music together
They continued as a duo until Alex bumped into old school friend Daniel Hetherton whilst he was picking up a younger brother from school.
They invited Dan to a band practice and shortly after he joined as the official drummer
for a short while they had a bassist named Mike who was also an old school friend
They named themselves The Academy
Soon after Mike left to go to university rather than continue in the band.
Now without a bassist Dan suggest they recruit his older brother Edward Hetherton ( better known as Teddy, Tedward or Ed H)
With their music having a classical element to it Alex contacted another old school friend Alistair Andrew Paul to join the band as their keyboardist
Sometime during this year they changed their name from The Academy to Elliot Minor due to legal reasons.
Alex built a studio in his home which he named Mavehole Studios which they used to record their demo album which featured songs such as 'Breaking' 'Song for the Festivity' 'What about Christmas' 'One wish' 'Jacky Jules' and 'Shes getting around' the latter two both being re recorded in a studio and released as bsides to singles released on their first and second album (japanese version of Solaris for Jacky Jules).
They gained most of their fanbase through social networking sites such as myspace in which drummer Dan sent messages to many myspace users inviting them to become fans of their band (they started doing this back when they were still named The Academy).
Since fans have helped with the promotion giving out fliers in their area and finding unique ways to promote.
2006 -
Elliot Minor entered and won a competition to support Mcfly at a gig in newcastle with a crowd of over 13,000 people.
They were signed to a independent record label Repossession Records which is run by their manager Gary Ashley.
2007 -
They headlined music festival Butserfest
signed a distribution deal with Warner Bros. Records.
Alex, Ed and Dan flew out to Santa Monica California to record their debut album with Jim Wirt as their producer (Jim would go on to produce their second album also)
whilst recording in America they started a series of webisodes on their youtube channel that showed what they were getting up to in the studio and around the area.
www.youtube.com/user/ElliotMinor#grid/user/6FCE76C26C2333F0
In a few of the videos short clips of songs that were goin to be on the soon to be released album could be heard playing in the background when they were inside the studio.
The webisodes include clips of them recording and writing songs for the album and showed them playing pranks on their producer Jim by setting fire to his hair as he worked.
One of the first webisodes showed them calling keyboadist Ali Paul who was still home in england.
Another showed them deciding single art work for the song Parallel Worlds whilst on the phone to their manager.
Later in the series Alex, Ed and Dan were joined in America by Ali
The final webisode of the first series sees the boys heading to the airport to fly back home to England.
April 9th 2007 Elliot Minor released their first single 'Parallel Worlds' which is claimed to be based on the paranormal activity Ed and Alex experienced in the attic flat they shared at Uppingham school.
The Music video showed the band playing in a old room where shelves would fall draws would open and light would shine through holes in the wall.
Ed Minton used two different guitars during the filming of this video due to the strap breaking mid filming.
The Bsides to this single included a Acoustic version and a Honky Tonk piano version which the boys claimed was recorded in a busy bar but can clearly be heard as the boys themselves making a lot of noise in the background. This is most noticeable at the beginning when you hear Alex Davies yell “oi get off me lipstick”.
The vinyl release featured the track 'Wait Another Week'
The second single released from the self titled debut album was 'Jessica'
Jessica was released on august 6th 2007
Members of the band have said the song was written about Jessica Alba.
The original name for this song was 'Walk With Me'
The Bsides to this single were a 'dance' version an acoustic version, 'Forgetting You' and the demos for 'Breaking' and 'Another Morning'
Jessica reached 19 in the UK charts and 1 in the UK indie charts
The music video shows the band playing in the crypt of a church and begins and ends on close up shots of Alex Davies opening and closing his eye.
The 3rd single 'The White One is Evil' was released on October 29th 2007
This single made it to number 27 in the UK charts
The bsides to this single were the demo songs 'So Here We Are' and 'Now Shes Gone'
In 2007 they toured twice the first tour was called 'The Glorious Nonsense Tour' the second simply being called 'October Tour'
2008-
On January 28th 2008 Elliot Minor released their 4th single 'Still Figuring Out'
It was written when Alex and Ed were still in school when they were unsure about what the future would hold or them.
The song was performed on british Charity show Children In Need.
It reached number 17 in the UK chart
The video showed the band performing on a stair case in a abandoned house in front of a crowd of their fans.
The fans in the video were all members of the bands street team
The Bside to this single was the demo song 'Sometimes You Are Wrong'
On April 7th Parallel Worlds was re released just a head of the release date of Elliot Minors debut album.
The re release also had a new video which featured the band as Ghosts playing on a table frighting the guests who were dining in the room at the time. The video shows Alex knocking over glasses Dan throwing books and the whole band performing on a large table.
The re release had a live version of the song for its bside
On April 14th 2008 Elliot Minors self titled debut album was released reaching number 6 in the UK charts.
During 2008 Elliot Minor performed at festivals T in the Park Reading and Leeds and Download.
Time After Time was the next single
The Video shows Alex Davies repeating the same day 3 times over in america whilst trying to get a date with a girl. Along his journey he bumped into each member of the band who played business men (Teddy) delivery boy (Dan) street performer (Ali) and Ed played himself.
Elliot Minor toured 3 times in 2008 the first was 'The Elliot Minor Tour' the support band for this tour were called The Days. The second was 'Skimpies and Aviators' during this your they had a feature in Kerrang! That showed the boys standing on brighton beach in the freezing cold weather.
The last tour of this year was the 'Discover Tour' they were supported by Anberlin and The Hot Melts.
2009-
Alex Davies and Ed Minton started work on their second album in early 2009
Alex said in an interview that the songs where about the last few years and how their lives had changed
April 2009 Elliot Minor released the single Discover (Why The Love Hurts)
The Video was filmed in 2008 and showed the band walking around the streets and train stations in whilst Alex sang through a megaphone.
part 1
Dan Hetherton, Teddy Hetherton, Alex Davies, Ed Minton and Ali Paul.
2000 - 2004
Alexander James Davies and Edward Jun Minton met age 13 at Uppingham school.
Alex was planning on becoming a concert violinist before Ed introduced him to rock and punk music.
Together they would play acoustic cover versions of popular songs by bands such as Green Day and Blink 182.
2005 -
Alex persuaded Ed to take a gap year from school to focus on making music together
They continued as a duo until Alex bumped into old school friend Daniel Hetherton whilst he was picking up a younger brother from school.
They invited Dan to a band practice and shortly after he joined as the official drummer
for a short while they had a bassist named Mike who was also an old school friend
They named themselves The Academy
Soon after Mike left to go to university rather than continue in the band.
Now without a bassist Dan suggest they recruit his older brother Edward Hetherton ( better known as Teddy, Tedward or Ed H)
With their music having a classical element to it Alex contacted another old school friend Alistair Andrew Paul to join the band as their keyboardist
Sometime during this year they changed their name from The Academy to Elliot Minor due to legal reasons.
Alex built a studio in his home which he named Mavehole Studios which they used to record their demo album which featured songs such as 'Breaking' 'Song for the Festivity' 'What about Christmas' 'One wish' 'Jacky Jules' and 'Shes getting around' the latter two both being re recorded in a studio and released as bsides to singles released on their first and second album (japanese version of Solaris for Jacky Jules).
They gained most of their fanbase through social networking sites such as myspace in which drummer Dan sent messages to many myspace users inviting them to become fans of their band (they started doing this back when they were still named The Academy).
Since fans have helped with the promotion giving out fliers in their area and finding unique ways to promote.
2006 -
Elliot Minor entered and won a competition to support Mcfly at a gig in newcastle with a crowd of over 13,000 people.
They were signed to a independent record label Repossession Records which is run by their manager Gary Ashley.
2007 -
They headlined music festival Butserfest
signed a distribution deal with Warner Bros. Records.
Alex, Ed and Dan flew out to Santa Monica California to record their debut album with Jim Wirt as their producer (Jim would go on to produce their second album also)
whilst recording in America they started a series of webisodes on their youtube channel that showed what they were getting up to in the studio and around the area.
www.youtube.com/user/ElliotMinor#grid/user/6FCE76C26C2333F0
In a few of the videos short clips of songs that were goin to be on the soon to be released album could be heard playing in the background when they were inside the studio.
The webisodes include clips of them recording and writing songs for the album and showed them playing pranks on their producer Jim by setting fire to his hair as he worked.
One of the first webisodes showed them calling keyboadist Ali Paul who was still home in england.
Another showed them deciding single art work for the song Parallel Worlds whilst on the phone to their manager.
Later in the series Alex, Ed and Dan were joined in America by Ali
The final webisode of the first series sees the boys heading to the airport to fly back home to England.
April 9th 2007 Elliot Minor released their first single 'Parallel Worlds' which is claimed to be based on the paranormal activity Ed and Alex experienced in the attic flat they shared at Uppingham school.
The Music video showed the band playing in a old room where shelves would fall draws would open and light would shine through holes in the wall.
Click to viewEd Minton used two different guitars during the filming of this video due to the strap breaking mid filming.
The Bsides to this single included a Acoustic version and a Honky Tonk piano version which the boys claimed was recorded in a busy bar but can clearly be heard as the boys themselves making a lot of noise in the background. This is most noticeable at the beginning when you hear Alex Davies yell “oi get off me lipstick”.
The vinyl release featured the track 'Wait Another Week'
The second single released from the self titled debut album was 'Jessica'
Jessica was released on august 6th 2007
Members of the band have said the song was written about Jessica Alba.
The original name for this song was 'Walk With Me'
The Bsides to this single were a 'dance' version an acoustic version, 'Forgetting You' and the demos for 'Breaking' and 'Another Morning'
Jessica reached 19 in the UK charts and 1 in the UK indie charts
The music video shows the band playing in the crypt of a church and begins and ends on close up shots of Alex Davies opening and closing his eye.
The 3rd single 'The White One is Evil' was released on October 29th 2007
This single made it to number 27 in the UK charts
The bsides to this single were the demo songs 'So Here We Are' and 'Now Shes Gone'
In 2007 they toured twice the first tour was called 'The Glorious Nonsense Tour' the second simply being called 'October Tour'
2008-
On January 28th 2008 Elliot Minor released their 4th single 'Still Figuring Out'
It was written when Alex and Ed were still in school when they were unsure about what the future would hold or them.
The song was performed on british Charity show Children In Need.
It reached number 17 in the UK chart
The video showed the band performing on a stair case in a abandoned house in front of a crowd of their fans.
The fans in the video were all members of the bands street team
The Bside to this single was the demo song 'Sometimes You Are Wrong'
On April 7th Parallel Worlds was re released just a head of the release date of Elliot Minors debut album.
The re release also had a new video which featured the band as Ghosts playing on a table frighting the guests who were dining in the room at the time. The video shows Alex knocking over glasses Dan throwing books and the whole band performing on a large table.
The re release had a live version of the song for its bside
On April 14th 2008 Elliot Minors self titled debut album was released reaching number 6 in the UK charts.
During 2008 Elliot Minor performed at festivals T in the Park Reading and Leeds and Download.
Time After Time was the next single
The Video shows Alex Davies repeating the same day 3 times over in america whilst trying to get a date with a girl. Along his journey he bumped into each member of the band who played business men (Teddy) delivery boy (Dan) street performer (Ali) and Ed played himself.
Elliot Minor toured 3 times in 2008 the first was 'The Elliot Minor Tour' the support band for this tour were called The Days. The second was 'Skimpies and Aviators' during this your they had a feature in Kerrang! That showed the boys standing on brighton beach in the freezing cold weather.
The last tour of this year was the 'Discover Tour' they were supported by Anberlin and The Hot Melts.
2009-
Alex Davies and Ed Minton started work on their second album in early 2009
Alex said in an interview that the songs where about the last few years and how their lives had changed
April 2009 Elliot Minor released the single Discover (Why The Love Hurts)
The Video was filmed in 2008 and showed the band walking around the streets and train stations in whilst Alex sang through a megaphone.
part 1