Finlay Stafford (vocals/ukulele/tambourine)
Dan Jackson (guitar)
Chris Godhard (guitar)
Michael Colley (bass guitar)
Noah Harris (drums)

Lyrics:
Not one for a senseless occupation of a hazard to my-
Oh, the things you do to keep the I away from you, and so in
Over where they falsely advertise each other to each other
So I sit without a chair, I'll fling a bit of lego at her

Hope it's not too late to make a date for you and I to hope to do a few sudokus by the fire in the ovening of the-

Don't delay, it's a broad paintstroke
This old way is less than bespoke
Moderate where appropriate
People, here's your opiate
Don't arrange us that board meeting
You are fleeting, it's appealing
Would you simply walk into-?

Slowly and painstakingly, I milk the venom from the plucky-
Who's the fucker gave some fucker some way he could get that lucky?
Nothing I can tell them tells them otherwise, but otherwise I'm-
Not to burst your bubble, but the trouble that you've gone to hasn't-

Hey. You. Me. Now. Let's. Say. We slow right down.

Don't delay, it's a broad paintstroke
This old way is less than bespoke
Moderate where appropriate
People, here's your opiate
Don't arrange us that board meeting
You are fleeting, it's appealing
Would you simply walk into-?

(Un)necessary Brackets

Finlay Stafford (vocals/accordion/ukulele)
Dan Jackson (guitar/vocals)
Chris Godhard (guitar)
Michael Colley (bass guitar)
Noah Harris (drums)

Lyrics:
Gardens that stretch to the sky
I'm falling
Out of the bellows I know
You're calling
It's a managed retreat
The flipside
Life's not as big as it seems
From inside

No more waiting
Stop the bleeding
Find your ammo
Let go

Gardens that stretch to the sky
I want to
Show you how hard you should try
You've got to
Fill from a bucket you've met
And make it
Fit through the holes in your head

No more waiting
Stop the bleeding
Find your ammo
Let go

Don't make me beg
Lose your sea legs
You will go back (take me back to where you belong plese tell them you won't be long I'll tape it up how it was and you will notice because)
Glue won't stop that (this here will never again know you and me and this pain the way that it can be known)

No more waiting
Stop the bleeding
Find your ammo
Let go

Tape

Written and performed by Tandem. Recorded by Dave Sanderson at 2fly Studios, Sheffield.

All you wish to be
Displayed for all to see
Tweaked and changed to be
One big hyperbole

A maze of empty dreams
A tinted gallery
Through which you cannot see
Fake from reality

Lay your arms down, pucker up
This is brand new, fuck your textbook
Pick it, pack it, fire it up
This is brand new, wish me luck

....I'll push you off the fence
....Lose your innocence
....You don't understand
....Can you understand
No!

Lay your arms down, pucker up
This is brand new, fuck your textbook
Pick it, pack it, fire it up
This is brand new, wish me luck

Watching thoughts pass through
But a feeling stays with you
Made to join the queue
Of notions to pursue

Lay your arms down, pucker up
This is brand new, fuck your textbook
Pick it, pack it, fire it up
This is brand new, wish me luck

....I'll push you off the fence
....Lose your innocence
....You don't understand
....Can you understand
No!

Lay your arms down, pucker up
This is brand new, fuck your textbook
Pick it, pack it, fire it up
This is brand new, wish me luck

Wish me luck

Notions - Tandem

Written and performed by Tandem. Recorded by Dave Sanderson at 2fly Studios, Sheffield.

I'll start again again
From the top again
I'm not from Rotherham
Believe it or not

You look impeccable
Almost edible
But these appendages
Would just get in the way

Yes I meant it when I said I wanted to but
It got complicated quickly once I started
Struggling to breath in your Earth's atmosphere and
Maybe I should go

I'm not entirely sure
What I came here for
I'm not wholly comfortable
With the way it turned out
It's not your fault I know
That I ought to go
But maybe we'll keep in touch
Just drop me a line

Who am I? (Mark the octopus)


Octopus - Tandem

Written and performed by Tandem. Recorded by Dave Sanderson at 2fly Studios, Sheffield.

Let me know
Waiting for the afterglow
Please don't leave me on my own
Out of touch and out of soul

Let me go
This is not for you to know
Let me find what I control
Over my mind this haze flows

You should have seen what I saw that night she said
That key took him to a place far from his head
What Robyn told her nearly left me for dead
Wish you could've been there not with him instead

Breaking in
Treading where the ice is thin
Falling in a different way
I disregard your right to stay

Something tells me she saw what you feared you'd seen
Maybe she saw your eyes and just where they'd been
Keep your balance watch your step don't look so keen
Put it down to a mistake and let off steam

You should have seen what I saw that night she said
That key took him to a place far from his head
What Robyn told her nearly left me for dead
Wish you could've been there not with him instead

Keys - Tandem

Written and performed by Tandem. Recorded by Dave Sanderson at 2fly Studios, Sheffield.

I've been counting the days
Waiting, for your ways to change
Not one but all four
Are waiting for you
To walk on through that door
And hold up that screen
Show us the words
And tell us what they mean
Show us the words
And tell us what they mean

No more time
Now that I'm
Waiting here

Waiting for you
You

Could've told, would've told,
Should've told you
That I knew what was coming
As you walked on through
You could've took another second
Just to wait right there
Then you might have seen the tension
Growing in the air

No more time
Now that I'm
Waiting here

Waiting here
Waiting for you
You

Waiting for you
You

No Rush - Tandem

Five piece band from Sheffield.

Dan Jackson - Guitar and vocals
Chris Godhard - Guitar
Finlay Stafford - Vocals, ukulele, accordion, keyboards and percussion
Michael Colley - Bass
Noah Harris - Drums

They played at all the major Sheffield Festivals including Tramlines, Sharrow, Heeley and The Big Boulder.

In May 2014 Tandem won the Young Music Battle of the Bands Competition at Sheffield O2 Academy.

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