Tellison

TELLISON is a four piece waking nightmare of a band. Five boys and no girls with acute organisational difficulties from Hammersmith, West London in Britain near France. Drums, Bass, Cowbells, Keyboards, Three Broken Guitars, Five Broken Voices, One Wounded Laptop, some Extra-Curricular instruments, hope and pure, wild-eyed, old-fashioned fight.

They met in Hampshire, Kingston, Notting Hill and Brixton and have fought bitterly ever since. When not fighting they’ve released some singles and an album, gone to university in Oxford, Cambridge, Berklee College of Music in Boston (US) and Canterbury and toured and toured and toured. They’ve been electrocuted, shot in the face with arrows, slept on hundreds and hundreds of floors and punched in the face. They’ve thrown up an awful lot. Tellison play what is best described as independent popular music, with disarming melodies and big-hearted guitars.

The album ’Contact! Contact!’ was recorded in characteristically fractured fashion - in locations 400 miles apart, with two different producers, over a period of six months.

Despite their academic pursuits, Tellison have managed to share stages with the likes of Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, Good Shoes, I Was A Cub Scout, Dartz!, Hundred Reasons, Hell Is For Heroes, Dave House, TANAOU, Spy Versus Spy, Walter Shriefels, Silverstein, Furthest Drive Home, Sam Isaac, Kubicheck! The Junior Varsity, The Audition, Gallows, Meet Me in St Louis, Emmy The Great, Brigade, The Maple State and many many more. 2007 was spent mainly on tour, playing to ever-increasing crowds thoughout the UK and Ireland.

Tellison have been a MySpace Recommended Artist twice. Three sold out 7" singles have been released, on Gravity DIP, New Slang and Banquet Records. They have been played on Radio 1, 6Music and Xfm (for whom they recorded a session). Their last single, ’Gallery’, reached number 5 in the Indie Chart and the video received extensive play on MTV:2 and TopShop TV. ’Hospital’ from the album featured in e4’s ’Nearly Famous’ teen drama and ’Gallery’ was featured in episodes 1-3 of e4 sitcom ’The Inbetweeners’. Tellison placed third in Rock Sound’s 2007 Best Unsigned Band poll.