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In 2006, Elliot Minor won a MySpace competition to support McFly for one show on their Greatest Hits tour with an audience of over 13,000 at Newcastle. Solaris Acoustic, was released on 15 November 2010, along with a DVD of the Kerrang!

An alternate version of "Solaris" was featured on the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics coverage.

Elliot Minor took a break from touring to write their second album, Solaris. 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. The tracks "Solaris" and "Discover (Why the Love Hurts)" were rerecorded before the album was released on October 19, 2009.

"Solaris" was announced to be the first single from the band's second album; however, due to technical problems with the format of the single, it was not released on iTunes as planned on August 10, 2009. Alex swears the room was haunted. They cite among their influences, Muse, The Used, Something Corporate, Jack’s Mannequin, The All-American Rejects, Queen and The Beach Boys.

At the start of 2010, it was announced that an acoustic version of the album Solaris was to be recorded and released later that year.

The band are featured in the book "The Virgin Book of British Hit Singles" for four of their releases. They signed to Repossession Records, an independent label run by their manager, Gary Ashley.

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.

Many of the songs from the album were written during their school days. Elliot Minor also supported McFly in Newcastle in 2006 to an audience of over 13,000 people and also performed at Wembly Arena. 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.

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. They were the second band to play on the Dimebag Darrell Stage on Saturday 9th June at the Download Festival 2007.
Their new tour which kicked off in Edinburgh sees them play many venues in England, Scotland and Ireland.

Prior to this it had already been playlisted on Kerrang! This album was also recorded with Jim Wirt.