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Accidents Never Happen (ANH) is an edgy rock band from Oslo, Norway, formed in 2005. After releasing their debut album Oslo Beat in 2006, vocalist and main songwriter Magne Mostue, guitarist Martin Natvig, drummer Christian Løvhaug and guitarist Jesper Jørgensen moved to Liverpool, UK. The more than two-year exile in the UK took its toll on the band and influenced the band's sound. Second effort Accidents Never Happen, recorded in The Motor Museum and St Brides church (The band's rehearsal space) with Simon Cullwick (who allegedly turned down an offer to work on Razorlight's Slipway Fires to work with ANH) was a much darker album than Oslo Beat.
Internal differences came climaxed by the end of 2008 when the band, despite well-received support slots for teeny-poppers Wombats, decided to head back to Norway. The following week, Zane Lowe on BBC radio 1 played an album outtake called "New Year".
A NME live review raved about the band's passionate live performance in their edition of the magazine from 3 December 2008 (only in the magazine, not on the web): "these ain't in this the be tagged masters of the underground. That's an Accident".
Accidents Never Happen was released in May 2009 on Deadletter records, and was named sixth-best Norwegian album of the year by Harald Fossberg of Aftenposten. The band played their last show at Parkteateret in Oslo on 28 August 2009.
During the band's time it played with acts such as Die! Die! Die!, The Wombats, Asobi Seksu, Caribou, Wave Machines, William, Yeasayer, Johnny Foreigner and The Mae Shi, and played festivals such as The Great Escape festival, Liverpool Music Week, Liverpool Sound City, Manchester Sound City, Øya festivalen, Storås festivalen, Slottsfjell festivalen, Phonofestivalen and Pstereofestivalen.
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