Vidar Norheim (born 13 October 1981) is a Norwegian drummer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter.
Born in
Molde
Molde () is a town and municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Romsdal. It is located on the Romsdal Peninsula, surrounding the Fannefjord and Moldefjord.
The administrative centre of the m ...
, Norheim started drumming as one of the original members of the jazz group DIXI in 1996. He is also a graduate of the
Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, where he specialized in songwriting. In 2004 he also joined a Liverpool-based band which eventually became
Wave Machines
Wave Machines was an English art pop band formed in Liverpool in 2007. The band released singles "The Greatest Escape We Ever Made" and "I Go I Go I Go" on Chess Club Records before signing with Neapolitan Music Limited in 2008. Three further s ...
, which has toured in England, the USA and Norway and in June 2009 released its debut album ''Wave If You're Really There''. Norheim has lived in Liverpool since 2002 and is married to the Liverpudlian singer-songwriter and playwright
Lizzie Nunnery
Lizzie Nunnery (born 1982, Liverpool) is an English playwright and singer-songwriter. She has participated in the Future Perfect scheme for new playwrights run by Paines Plough.
Co-Artistic Director of Almanac Arts, Lizzie’s first play ''Inte ...
, with whom he has collaborated on several album releases.
On 12 August 2011 he was nominated for a prize at the Trondheim Calling music festival. In November 2016 he released his first solo
EP on
Furuberget
Furuberget is an independent record label founded in 2013 and based in Oslo, Norway. The label was created by musicians André Lersveen and Ole Torstein Hovig. The company name (literally 'the pine mountain') comes from the name of the forest in H ...
.
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Living people
1981 births
Musicians from Molde
Norwegian drummers
Male drummers
Norwegian songwriters
Norwegian expatriates in the United Kingdom
Alumni of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts
21st-century Norwegian drummers
21st-century Norwegian male musicians