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   Tellison: General Info
Member Since7/16/2005
Band Websitewww.tellison.co.uk
Band MembersHenry Danowski
Stephen H Davidson
Andrew Tickell
Peter Phillips

And live:
Matt 'the moustache' Roberts
Influences
FLYERS



VIDEOS

Wasp's Nest ~ by Gee Lo Res Productions



Gallery ~ by Nick Bentley



Henry Went To Paris ~ Live @ The Water Rats 18/06/07 (by Nikki)


New York, New York, New York (Old Version/One Toy Soldier Tour Video)
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Reader ~ by Irregular Films
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DISCOGRAPHY


DRUMS DON'T KILL RECORDS

SOLD OUT
CONTACT! CONTACT! REMIXED
Jan 12th 2009
Cat no: DDKR002

1. Hanover Start Clapping - Ginface Remix
2. Reader - Hankulator Remix
3. Gallery - Dave House Remix
4. Tender is the Night - Zach Lipkins Remix
5. Fire - Elastik! Remix
6. New York New York New York - Arcom Remix
7. Amory - Pipe + Slippers Remix
8. Architects - Toby Benson Remix
9. Ambulance - Tellison Vs Room 253
10. Henry Went To Paris - Maybeshewill Remix
11. Disaster! Disaster! - Sonolmoss London Found Remix
12. Hospital - Dr D's Stray Mix
13. Wasps Nest - Pierce Remix

A track by track remix of the debut album "Contact! Contact!". Extremely limited and released on the band's own label with remixed artwork by Thr33 Designs. Sold Out.

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BANQUET RECORDS

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TELLISON / TUBELORD SPLIT 7" SINGLE
4th August 2008
Cat no: BANQUET 012

A. Tellison - Wasp's Nest
AA. Tubelord - Night of the Pencils

Limited to just 500 and only available from Banquet Records and on tour summer '08.

We recorded this song with our good friend Pat Collier at his Perry Vale Studios in London on the 8th and 9th of May '08. The artwork was conceived by us, Tellison, while we were walking to the cinema in Shepherd's Bush, the models were made by the wonderful Faridah at Raging Cupcake and our friend Photowen took the photo and helped us to build the scene in Hammersmith in our practice room on top of some amplifiers.

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BANQUET RECORDS

SOLD OUT
GALLERY 7"
November 26th 2007

A. Gallery
B. Gibralter

The first real single to be taken from our album. The b side is a song we recorded during the album sessions and finished off during the summer of '07 with Pat Collier @ Perry Vale in London. The download of this single features a remix of Gallery by Dave House. The art was by our friend Alex Curtis who did the art for Contact! Contact! 500 copies were pressed. Sold Out.

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GRAVITY DIP RECORDS + BANQUET RECORDS

BUY NOW
CONTACT! CONTACT!
Sep 12th 2007 on Gravity DIP Records (Sold Out) Nov 12th 2007 on Banquet Records


1. Hanover Start Clapping
2. Reader
3. Gallery
4. Tender is the Night
5. Fire
6. New York New York New York
7. Amory
8. Ambulance
9. Architects
10. Henry went to Paris
11. Disaster! Disaster!
12. Hospital

'Contact! Contact!' was recorded in characteristically fractured fashion - in locations 400 miles apart, with two different producers, over a period of six months. We began this record on Bankhead Farm in Fife in August '06 with Robin Sutherland and finished it in Perry Vale Studios in London in January '07 with Pat Collier. Inbetween we went to Dundee for many days and ate a lot Chinese food and suffered crippling crises of confidence and powercuts in Robin's parent's house. We used a lot of equipment which belonged and continues to belong to a lovely lovely Scottish band called Stapleton and we slept on many floors so that we could finish it. During recording Peter ate several macaroni and cheese pies from a Scottish bakery, Andrew became badly ill and had to stay at home, Henry made a percussion castle and during the release show Stephen passed out over his amplifier and nobody noticed. It was all very emotional.

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NEW SLANG
RECORDS


SOLD OUT
HENRY WENT TO PARIS 7"
August 2nd 2007

1. Henry Went To Paris

This 7" was given away free to the first 100 people at New Slang when we played there in August '07 while we were on tour with Encyclopedia and Gavin Osborn. The records arrived about 10 minutes before the doors opened. Which was quite exciting. This version of "Henry Went To Paris" is the same as the album version and came out on lovely one sided black vinyl. About 200 were pressed. Now sold out.

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SPIRA RECORDS

SOLD OUT
SPIRA RECORDS MIX TAPE: VOLUME 2
7th May 2007

Track 2: New York, New York, New York (John Hannon version)

An 18 track sampler released by Scottish label Spira Reords, the label that first released Orko, featuring lots of good good bands including: 10 Easy Wishes, One Toy Soldier, The All New Adventures Of Us and Orko. All profits go to Cancer Research UK.

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SIGNATURE TUNE RECORDS

SOLD OUT
SOUVENIR - A TRIBUTE TO CABLE
30th October 2006

Track 13: Tellison - Song 1

15 tracks made in tribute to the long departed Derby 4-piece. Feauring covers by Tom Vek, Stapleton, My Awesome Compilation, Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, The League of International Super Best Friends (Memebers of Bloc Party & Your Codename is Milo), Fixit Kid and Dave House. Sold out.

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GRAVITY DIP RECORDS

SOLD OUT
PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE - 2006 GDIP SAMPLER
March 2006

Track 3: Tellison - New York, New York, New York (John Hannon Version)

The Gravity DIP sampler features 25 tracks from past, present and future bands on the label. Including tracks from the likes of Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, Hundred Reasons, Capdown, Jacob's Stories, Stapleton, Douglas, Instruction, Larry Hibbitt's nutigerduo, The Steal, DARTZ! and Orko.

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GRAVITY DIP RECORDS

SOLD OUT
READER - 7"
Feb 6th 2006

A - Reader.
Bi - Linley
Bii - Winter winter

Limited to 500 ever with a hand printed cover designed by Dave House and printed by the band, Dave House and Gravity DIP people at different times. Reader was re-recorded specially for this single release with Pat Collier at The Gravity Shack in Tooting, London. The B sides were taken from demos Tellison recorded in Henry's basement. Each single has a hand printed cover and contains an individually numbered record. Super collectable and completely unique there exist two different "tones" of cover colour because we ran out of the original green paint. Sold out.

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JAWS II RECORDS

SOLD OUT
TELLISON / SEVEN YEARS - SPLIT
2nd December 2003

1. Reader
2. 1112
3. How they didn't knight Chaplin
4. Painting

Split with Northampton hardcore band Seven Years. Recorded at Mushroom Studios, Essex with Jon Hannon in early 2003 in the freezing cold. When this was released Tellison were still a three-piece with Rory Andrew on Bass/Vocals, Henry on Drums and Stephen on Guitar/Vocals. 500 were pressed. Sold Out.
Record LabelBanquet Records
Type of LabelIndie


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TELLISON CONTACT DETAILS

Management:

davidsonstephen@gmail.com

Band:

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Booking:

ross@primary.uk.com
(Ross Morrison at Primary Talent International)

Press:

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BUY THE DEBUT ALBUM "CONTACT! CONTACT!" NOW HERE


GRAVITY DIP RECORDS

BUY NOW
CONTACT! CONTACT!
2007
Cat no: DIP042

1. Hanover Start Clapping
2. Reader
3. Gallery
4. Tender Is The Night
5. Fire
6. New York, New York, New York
7. Amory
8. Ambulance
9. Architects
10. Henry Went To Paris
11. Disaster! Disaster!
12. Hospital

"It's been a long time coming, but you can finally pre-order what is unquestionably one of the records of the year. It's more than worth the wait. Fully delivering on and even exceeding expectations raised by their excellent live shows, 'Contact! Contact!' is packed with superbly crafted songs and clever, meaningful lyrics. Stephen could sing a shopping list and make it sound simultaneously heart-breaking and life-affirming. You need this record." - Gravity DIP Records.


BIOGRAPHY.

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, a 7" single 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, Dave House, TANAOU, Spy Versus Spy, Walter Shriefels, 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 were played on Radio 1, 6Music and Xfm (for whom they recorded a session). The most recent 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' will be featured in forthcoming Channel 4 sitcom 'The Inbetweeners'. Tellison placed third in Rock Sound's 2007 Best Unsigned Band poll.

You're going to love them.


PRESS.

"They could reach Fall Out Boy megastardom or spark off as a big a cult as Death Cab" - NME

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

"This band deserve your love" - Rock Sound

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

"Their debut album is currently released on a small independent, but this is a band with far reaching commercial promise. Don’t let it pass you by." - Music Week

"Tellison (are) redefining incredible" - The Red Stripe Camden Crawl

"I can safely say that there have only ever been 2 relatively unknown bands I’ve seen where I've witnessed the audience singing large chunks of the songs while the band take an astonished step back, and that other band were from Sheffield, called Frozen Monkeys, Arctic Monkeys, or something like that... I wonder what happened to them?" - Rockfeedback.com

"Tellison are a band to be cherished" - Loud & Quiet.com

"Tellison are one of the five best bands in existence right now. They make amazing fightpop that's so good it's basically flawless" - Marsha Shandur XFM

"Tellison are a pop band with integrity." - BBC

"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 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

"...they're a humble, jovial lot who reaffirm one's faith in indie-rock. If there's any justice, we'll be seeing a lot more of them." - Overspill Zine

"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


MORE.

There are PHOTOS.

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Some people run a MYSPACE FAN GROUP and a FACEBOOK GROUP.Yup. It is kind of them.

There's also a MYSPACE GROUP that we vaguely run.





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Jul 11 2009 2:17 AM


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Jul 7 2009 2:23 PM

Gibralta/Tender is the night-
we really dig these tunes!
Big Cheers for beeing friends here!!!
KONG!
Islington boys’ club





Jul 4 2009 12:32 PM

Thanks for Dj-ing again Henry, (and for playing of course, loved it!)

hope you had fun, must come to see you all playing very very soon.

Love,
Ed x
CLUB. THE. MAMMOTH.





Jun 28 2009 2:35 PM

Join us next THURSDAY at The Legion for the 1st of our floating residency nights with some great other bands playing.
Doors 6pm (live music from 8:30)
FREE ENTRY!


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Click on the flyer above to visit the facebook event page.

See you there! IBC x
Lions





Jun 7 2009 9:06 PM

Lets move to! To Southend, Southend!

MASSIVE, pleasure to share a stage with you on Saturday! Hopefully see you all soon :)

ROB x
Jack James [PLAYING LOTF TODAY!]





Jun 7 2009 11:10 AM

just bought one of your sweaters :D x
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Jun 6 2009 10:08 PM

Heyy,
you guys were amazing at southend today!!!
xx
AJ





Jun 6 2009 9:18 PM

Saw you fellas at Southend Fest today, you lot were absolutely amazing.. Our group were like the first ones there lol. Yeah loved your music, keep it up! :D
JD





Jun 6 2009 9:13 PM

Alright guys
Liked your set today
Me and my mates were the first ones there today, and probably the last to go
Everyone else just looked kinda confused lol
Glad to have found you lot though
Good luck with everything, looks like there's a few magazines saying you'll go far :)
CELLMA





Jun 5 2009 12:42 PM

Wish I could get back to Southend for this saturday. Hope it goes well lads.
moodie.





Jun 4 2009 3:35 AM

come play southampton or portsmouth! you shits ;) x
Room 253





Jun 3 2009 1:17 AM

That video has made me so terribly excited about the new record.
Terribly terribly.
xx
Forget me nots





May 31 2009 3:31 PM

Four boys and no girls... well not yet anyway... you seem to be managing ok without any. Just love the sound, so melodic, but not in an overt way, all punky and punchy, but still tuneful. The Police had the same thing going on so that's got to be a good thing.  Had a close look at your giant photo... and I concur... you never can have too many boss effects pedals!! Fun guitar-gadgets, for boys ( and girls! Flanger was my favourite!). Love from Ireland, Michelle FMNs


Rebecca





May 29 2009 9:16 PM

knock knock....
a word like.attack [EP Release@Joiners 18th July!]





May 28 2009 8:27 PM

Hey, how's it going? Thanks for accepting, we appreciate it!
Stay safe,

Joe
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May 26 2009 4:28 PM

hullo!

come to this. it will be wonderful. x

Sugar Mouse





May 21 2009 8:37 PM

oh god lord. my eyesight fails me. officially. i had my eyes tested last week and i need glasses badly it seems, but i cannot afford them yet so the headaches and the exceedingly blurred vision continues until such time as i can purchase some specs. horrid horrid.
x
Islington boys’ club





May 21 2009 6:55 PM

Hope things are well with you guys, must come and check out again sometime soon!

Much Love,
Ed x

(Cal Gore's mate, would have see you last at Notting Hill Arts Club I think)
Lions





May 20 2009 4:37 PM

See you on the 6th boys! Playing with my favouritist band ever. It's like a dream come bloody true!

Mikey xx
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May 18 2009 3:28 PM

cheers for the accept
danny.





May 16 2009 7:21 PM

please come to belfast !
Twelve Titans (looking for gigs!!!)





May 8 2009 3:57 PM

you guys are too good.
xx
Steph_Edinburgh





May 3 2009 6:32 PM

Hiya thanks for adding me xx

Junayd





Apr 29 2009 10:07 PM

second season of inbetweeners you guys have been on!? niceeee
atlanticintransit ( NEW SONGS UP NOW )





Apr 29 2009 6:50 PM

Thanks for accepting :)
Hanover Start clapping!
Yes x
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