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Minor Majority

Minor Majority

About Me

Minor Majority is a Norwegian pop/rock/country group formed in 2000. Over the years they have released five albums, sold more than 150.000 albums and played around 500 concerts.

The first three years of their career was spent basically as a duo, seeing the release of "Walking Home From Nicole's" (2001) and "If I Told You, You Were Beautiful" (2002). The band first saw widespread commercial success after in 2003, the five piece band was established. "Up For You & I" (2004), "Reasons To Hang Around" (2006) and "Candy Store" (2007) all made the gold album in Norway and "Reasons.." won the Norwegian Grammy "Spellemannsprisen" for "Best Pop Act". "Candy Store" is a "best of" album with a bonus eleven track cd.

All cd's are available internationally at http://www.cdon.com/.

Minor Majority just finished a Norwegian Tour, playing the biggest venues all over the country for packed audiences up to 1800 strong. The spring of 2008 will bring tours in Germany, France and Switzerland.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/19/2005
Band Website: minormajority.no
Band Members:

Pål Angelskår - Guitar, Vocals

Jon Arild Stieng - Guitars, Backing Vocals

Halvor Høgh Winsnes - Drums, Percussion

Henrik Harr Widerøe . Bass, Banjo, Flute, Backing Vocals

Harald Sommerstad - Keyboards

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Buy Minor Majority albums online at iTunes!


Influences: Free, Ryan Adams, Johnny Cash, Neil Young, Dinasaur Jr, Kenny Rogers & The First Edition, The Lemonheads, Elliott Smith, Dolly Parton, Joni Mitchell, Alison Krauss & Union Station, The Jayhawks, Dixie Chicks, Teenage Fanclub, Don Caballero, Slayer, The Posies, The Zombies, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Nick Drake, Built to Spill, The Cardigans, Motorpsycho, Aretha Franklin, The Band, Supergrass, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Leonard Cohen, Bruce Springsteen, Nick Cave, Chris Casavas & Junkyard Love, The Three O' Clock, Paul & Linda McCartney, Guided By Voices
Sounds Like:
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Record Label: www.sonet.no
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

German tour

Hi! Just finished our German tour. That was fun! This tour is one of the more comfortable tours I've had. One thing was the nice people in the nice places and all good crowds. Secondly, ...
Posted by Minor Majority on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:26:00 PST

Spring tours

Soon it will be February, and we'll be back on the road again. We'll be visiting different parts of Europe this spring and we're really excited about playing some sweet new material for all ...
Posted by Minor Majority on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:17:00 PST

Curling

Hi all, sorry I'm late!Last week we participated in our booking agency's annual curling cup for the first time. Harald, Jon, Helena form Truls & the Trees and I had a team called Minor Majority &a...
Posted by Minor Majority on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 03:30:00 PST

Back on track!

Hi, everybody, and a happy new year to y'all!  We've had a nice, long holiday with our families and friends, with lots of presents exchanged and plenty of food and drink consumed. We have even (f...
Posted by Minor Majority on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:58:00 PST

Christmas time´s a-comin´

So It´s upon us again this thing we call Christmas... For some it´s the worst part of the year while others enjoy every minute of it. I know for sure that I belong to the last category - at least...
Posted by Minor Majority on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 04:48:00 PST

Another mixtape from Pål

First of all; a big thank you to all the people who came to our shows this autumn. It's been a great tour! We're going to take a little break from live performa...
Posted by Minor Majority on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 05:25:00 PST

My Baleani Altimoro

In the absence of touring, shows and the guys, my days are hopelessly boring and this makes it extremely hard to find suitable themes to write about on the Minor Majority blog. So,...I usually use two...
Posted by Minor Majority on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 01:35:00 PST

Last incidence of coincidence

As our holidays rages on, nothing much is going on in the life of Minor Majority. Consequently, coincidences has been on my mind lately. It seems every time I look up a word in the dictionary, that sa...
Posted by Minor Majority on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:02:00 PST

Back from Switzerland

Hi, everybody! Minor Majority's christmas holiday has officially started! After a couple of pretty intense months, we are at the end of this years tour. It's a bit sad, of course, but I'm really looki...
Posted by Minor Majority on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:13:00 PST

The hangover is now gone

So, the hangover is gone and thinking back at Saturdays last show at Sentrum Scene (Oslo) today makes me a little mellow in fact. For me this tour has been everything I hoped it would b...
Posted by Minor Majority on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 03:18:00 PST