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The Minority

Alternative Indie Rock from Belfast

About Me

You can also buy our tshirts and demo cd featuring Empty City, Give Me Time and Know Your Enemies from our online shop at www.theminoritymusic.com/shop .

The Minority, formed in 2007, hail from Belfast, London and Leeds. The driving forces behind the band are co-writers Tim Murphy and Alan Ladd who met at Queen's University Belfast in 2002. Since then, they have been writing songs and collaborating with various musicians until they were joined by Kenny Harrower on drums and for guest appearances live and on record by Rick McKee on Lead Guitar. Rachael Moore, a drummer also from Leeds, joined the band for their recent UK Tour, playing in 11 cities, headlining and also supporting bands such as 'Stateless' and 'Tom White' of Electric Soft Parade and Brakes. The Minority have had their music played on various radio stations and podcasts in the past year. The track 'She' featured in The Trash Society Unsigned Volume 3 which is association with XFm and Artrocker and 'Can't Have Everything' will be on the next Bruised Fruit UITA compilation. Their sound is a fusion of Tim's influences of singer-songwriters and bands such as Ryan Adams, David Kitt and REM and Alan's love of indie rock bands and classical music, most notably Radiohead, Elbow and Doves. The result is a unique style that is difficult to compare or place in any genre. Alan and Tim continue to write, record and produce new material in their home studio in North Belfast and plan to gig extensively throughout Ireland this year.

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A clip of the music video for Empty City which is currently being put through the final stages of editing. This was shot in Belfast on the top of the Oh Yeah Building
Here's some footage from our 2008 UK Tour

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Member Since: 2/16/2007
Band Website: theminoritymusic.com
Band Members: Tim Murphy - Guitar / Vocals Alan Ladd - Bass / Vocals / Strings / Keys Kenny Harrower - DrumsRachael Moore - Drums
Influences: Radiohead, Elbow, Doves, Ryan Adams, David Kitt, REM, Duke Special, Aimee Mann, Bob Dylan, Brian Kennedy, Chicane, Coldplay, Counting Crows, Craig Armstrong, Damien Dempsey, Damien Rice, Dave Mathews, David Gray, Declan O'Rourke, Del Amitri, Delerious, Embrace, Gemma Hayes, Goo Goo Dolls, Jason Marz, Jeff Buckley, Kate Rusby, Lighthouse Family, Neil finn, Nick Drake, Oasis, Orbital, Paddy Casey, Placebo, Sigur Ros, Starsailor, Stereophonics, Sting, U2, Howling Bells, Fields, Pavement, Jonny Ladd, ¡Forward Russia!, Pull Tiger Tail, Youth Movie Soundtrack Strategies, Mogwai, Lupine Howl, Muse, Foo Fighters, Bjork, Young Knives, Soulwax, Super Furry Animals, Turin Brakes, Manic Street Preachers, Weezer, Iain Archer, At the Drive In, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Prodigy, The Reindeer Section, The Scare, Primal Scream, John Lennon, Scaramanga Six, Stevie Wonder, Panic!, The Maccabees, Jamiroquai, Rage Against The Machine, Bloc Party, Kula Shaker, Klaxons, iLiKETRAiNS, Shostakovich, We Are Scientists, The Hives, The Strokes, Blur, The Verve, Tchaikovsky, Cinematic Orchestra, The Cooper Temple Clause, The Dears, Stone Roses, Pigeon Detectives, Queens of the Stoneage, Queen, Maximo Park, Killers, Kaisers, Deftones, George Michael, The Jam, Paul Weller, The Police, The Smiths
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Broken Face Remix

Just up loaded a remix of Broken Face which Alwyn from Komodo Recordings has been working on. We were up there last week in Hillsborough and had a laugh and recorded a few more parts. Hope you enjoy!T...
Posted by The Minority on Sun, 11 May 2008 04:09:00 PST

Tour Video

Just posted up some footage from our UK tour, hope you enjoy !Tim
Posted by The Minority on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:51:00 PST

Blogging

hey, we are posting all our tour blogs at www.theminoritymusic.com/blog/ if your interested in some minority gossip!Tim...
Posted by The Minority on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:40:00 PST

New Track 'Empty City'

HeyJust added our third track to our site, took us a bit longer than we thought to record and mix it but happy with the result. Empty City is a song that has been worked on for a few years now, and we...
Posted by The Minority on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 07:43:00 PST