Snow (Don't Tell the Truth This Christmas)

Contact! Contact!

Gallery

Good Luck It's Christmas

Hope Fading Nightly

Tsundoku

Wrecker

Orion

My Marengo

Rookie of the Year

Tact Is Dead

Helix & Ferman

Black Rhyme

Tellison is Henry Danowski (drums/programming), Stephen H Davidson (vocals/guitar), Peter Phillips (guitar/vocals) and Andrew Tickell (bass).

Produced by Andy Jenkin @ Rex Studio, London. (www.andyjenkin.co.uk) 

www.tellison.co.uk
contact@tellison.co.uk 

1  Letter to The Team (after another imperfect season)

8 Orion

The first single from Tellison's forthcoming new album on Alcopop Records. 

DOWNLOAD FOR FREE FROM: https://tellison.bandcamp.com/album/tact-is-dead
Free download includes artwork, lyric sheet and poster. 

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkD0MaQUOko

www.tellison.co.uk 

Alcopop#119
credits
released 04 March 2015 

Produced by Andy Jenkin @ Rex Studio, London. (www.andyjenkin.co.uk) 

Song and lyrics by SH Davidson. 
Music written and composed by Tellison. 

Artwork by Tom Laskowski (www.tomlaskowski.com) & Lloyd Cook (www.lloyd-cook.co.uk) 

LYRICS 
On the day I graduated 
I passed out on the floor 
You mean there's more? 
I've done everything you said 
I don't want to intern 
It turned out meritocracy 
Was a lie 
As a philosophy it don't work 
They just told us that 
To keep us in school 

You bet your drilled back teeth 
I was looking at you 
Picking fights on the tube 
Cos you're feeling so blue 
It's not just the scars you can see 
It's the scars on the inside 
Inside of me 

My generation 
Doesn't mean that much to me 
And this Golden Age thinking 
Means I'm often unhappy 

I've got a little dark room 
At the back of the house 
I've been saving my pay 
But it's wearing me down 
And I can't afford anything 
Increasingly I opt out of everything 

I've had a million jobs 
I'll have a million more 
Wish I was successful 
But I sleep on the floor 
Work all my life 
For family 
So that my kids 
Can be like me 
The indignity, the humanity 
Oh the horror, the horror, ah Bartleby 
Throw me into a tube train 
Pay me the minimum wage 
So I will never earn more than my parents 
I'd prefer it not to be this way but 

My generation 
Doesn't mean that much to me 
And this Golden Age thinking 
Means I'm often unhappy 

Hidem Brook 
You've got the look 
Of a man I'd like to be 
Hidem Brook 
You've got the look 
Of a man… of a real man 

My generation 
Doesn't mean that much to me 
And this Golden Age thinking 
Means I'm often unhappy.

Freud Links The Teeth And The Heart

Tellison are a four-piece waking-nightmare of a band from London, UK. Formed out of a shared love of unsuccessful indie rock bands of the late 90s and early 00s Tellison have, to date, released two critically acclaimed albums and a clutch of sold-out, occasionally charting, singles. They write imperfect songs about hope, loss, love and literature. Lead single "Say Silence" from 2011's sophomore album "The Wages of Fear" somehow managed to reference Shakespeare, Jacques Lacan, Bill Murray, Wes Anderson, John Donne and Tarantino in the same breath - not a huge number of people noticed. Undaunted, Tellison are currently putting the finishing touches to album number three, dusting off their guitars and referencing conventions and stepping up to take another swing at, if not the big time, at least the medium time.

Tellison

Popular tracks