Tellison

Indie / Rock

London, United Kingdom

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About

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

They met in Hampshire, Kingston and Brixton and have fought bitterly ever since. When not fighting they've released a 7" single on Gravity DIP Records, a 7" single on New Slang Records, an album on Gravity DIP Records/Banquet Records, two 7" singles on Banquet records, 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. They care an awful lot. Tellison play what is best described as independent popular music, with disarming melodies and big-hearted guitars.

Education has brought them together and kept them apart. Managing to capture hearts and minds and inspire devotion when they were in the same place for long enough to play shows, their songs which showed such early promise have now blossomed into perfectly formed flowers of passionate, life-affirming guitar pop.

'Contact! Contact!' was recorded in characteristically fractured fashion - in locations 400 miles apart, with two different producers, over a period of six months. The result is an album with the emphasis on the things their contemporaries often lose sight of while thinking up gimmicks - great songs, intelligent lyrics, massive hooks and vocals to make your heart burst.

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, Tubelord, Hot Club de Paris, Dave House, TANAOU, Spy Versus Spy, Walter Shriefels, Sam Isaac, Kubicheck! The Junior Varsity, Silverstein, 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. 2008 has continued in much the same vein.

Tellison have been a MySpace Recommended Artist twice. Four sold out 7" singles have been released, on Gravity DIP, New Slang and Banquet Records. They were played on Radio 1, 6Music and Xfm (for whom they recorded a session). 'Gallery' reached number 5 in the Indie Chart, featured in Channel 4 sitcom 'The Inbetweeners' and the video received extensive play on MTV:2 and TopShop TV. 'Hospital' from the album featured in e4's 'Nearly Famous' teen drama. Tellison placed third in Rock Sound's 2007 Best Unsigned Band poll.

Their first new material was released on a limited edition 7" split with Tubelord and was available on the Tellison / Tubelord tour in Jul / Aug 2008. 'Wasp's Nest' was played on Radio 1, 6Music and XFM and the video aired on MTV:2.

"...they could reach Fall Out Boy mega-stardom or spark off as big a cult as Death Cab" - NME

"Jawdroppingly brilliant" - The Fly

"Their treble-layered harmonies and quirky energetic songs recall the sense, if not the sound, of The Get Up Kids in their early days... a wonderful sense of hope, regret and youthful abandon" - KERRANG!

"This band deserve your love" - Rock Sound

"Tellison deserve to rule the world." - The Fly

"Expect to hear much, much more from these rising heroes in the future." - KERRANG!

"This band are about to explode" - Rock Sound

"Tellison are fucking great." - Play Dead Single Of The Issue, Issue 18

"Thank fuck then for TELLISON, who in just a few bars of their opening song banish the memory of what's gone before and proceed to remind me just why they really are one of the best young British bands around" - A Short Fanzine About Rocking

"This band are destined for great things. Superb." - Rock Sound

"Tellison confound the many schools of musical thought and theory that suggest it's impossible to make The Perfect Album. I'm sorry everyone, you're wrong. This is it. It's here, it's over. Put down your guitars, your microphones. There's no use. Just give up. Music - conquered. The summit - reached...stop. This thing, this wonderful creature, it's The End."- Time For Heroes Zine