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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thu 24th July KINGSTON @ NEW SLANG
w/ Joey Nightmare
Age 18 + ( Bring Photo ID whatever age you are ! )
Doors 9PM
Entry £5 with flyer / £6 otherwise
Tickets: BANQUET RECORDS
Fri 25th July DONCASTER @ THE PRIORY
w/ Above Them
Age 14 +
Doors 7PM
Entry £6
Tickets: SEETICKETS
Tue 29th July SCARBOROUGH @ BAR ZERO
w/ Shapes + The Occasion
Age 16 +
Doors 7:30pm
Entry £6
Tickets: .
Wed 30th July NEWCASTLE @ THE DOG & PARROT
w/ Guarded By Robots
Age 18 +
Doors 7:00pm
Entry £5
Tickets: .
Thu 31st July GLASGOW @ KING TUTS
w/ Eight Page Pullout
Age 14 +
Doors 8:00pm
Entry £6
Tickets: Tickets are priced £6.00 available from the King Tut's bar, Tickets Scotland 0141 204 5151 or Ticketmaster www.ticketmaster.co.uk or 0870 169 0100
Sat 2nd August LEEDS @ ROYAL PARK CELLARS
w/ Colour
Age 18 +
Doors 8:00pm
Entry £5
Tickets: WE GOT TICKETS
Sun 3rd August MANCHESTER @ THE ROADHOUSE
w/ The Maple State
Age 14 +
Doors 6 pm ( Curfew 9 pm )
Entry £5
Tickets: SEE TICKETS
Mon 4th August BIRMINGHAM @ ACADEMY
w/ Kidnapper Bell
Age 14 + / All Ages ( under 14's must be accomanpied by an adult )
Doors 7 pm
Entry £5
Tickets: TICKETWEB + Box Office 0844 477 2000
Tue 5th August LEICESTER @ SUMO BAR
w/ Minaars + Paper Planes
Age 16 +
Doors 8 pm
Entry £6
Tickets: WE GOT TICKETS
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.
"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 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
yo i know nothing about you but basically, i added you to warn you about the borderline in london i don't know if a lot of your fans are kids but you need to let them know that everyone will need I.D to prove they are over 14 stupid i know, but we couldn't get in there the other week as we didn't have I.D so yeah, just a heads up
