From 1997 to 2001, I worked on a national lottery funded initiative “Millennium Greens”, which helped people to create new community green spaces where they were previously lacking. The word ‘Minnellium’ came about because of the number of times during that era that people either said it (inadvertantly) or actually mis-typed it. It just made me chuckle every time I heard it.
I had started to make my own electronic music at the time and needed a name for my ‘band’. It sounded right because the word sounded electronic and modern. I soon bagged the URL minnellium.com and so the word / brand started to take on its own form and gradually it has become less about the audio and more about me, generally.
Minnellium isn’t an alter ego – it’s become a moden day metaphor for me and mine!
D.