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TEHI 2017

Well, that’s our favourite festival done and dusted for another year. “The Eyes have It” 2017 was roughly double in size to last year and four times the size of 2015. Headliners this year included the Blockheads and Climax Blues Band -and TOYAH, who we were delighted to be main support for on the Saturday night and who turned out to be really lovely and a total professional.

Our set seemed to go down very well and there are rumours (actually, slightly more than rumours) that we’ll be back next year – our FOURTH consecutive appearance at this wonderful event.

Telsen would like to thank Simon Clark and his amazing team for a fantastic weekend and his continued belief in our little band of noisy West-Midlanders.

Thanks also to Quentin Clark of Silk Purse Videos for his excellent video footage, which we’ll be posting here, a track at a time, for your delectation.

Here, to get the ball rolling is “Cowboy”, a newish song from mid-set that we’re especially pleased with…

Festival Time!

We’ve been a bit lax regarding updates here but quite a lot has been happening of late. Our lovely drummer Dave Eley has moved on to pastures new (the bad news) but luckily the original Telsen drummer Richard Battye has returned to his sweaty drum stool (the good news).

And just in time too – we’ve been practicing hard to bring Richard up to speed with the newer songs before we play our biggest (and, sorry, favourite, gig this year) – “The Eyes Have It” Festival in Duffield, Derbyshire on Saturday 8th July.

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again – this is a fantastic friendly little festival, and we’re fortunate to have played there every year since it started in 2015. This year though, the ante has been upped and numbers are set to be considerably bigger than previous years, not least because of the bigger names that organiser Simon has lined up for each day. Friday’s headliners are none other than The Blockheads, on Sunday it’s the Climax Blues Band, and on Saturday we’ll be warming the stage for 80’s icon, Toyah! This is going to be a cracker.

If you’d like to come along, there may still be tickets available although we understand that the campsite may now be fully booked (but call to check). Telsen are onstage at 9pm.

Nick, Abi, Karl and David would like to take this opportunity to wish Dave Eley all the very best in his future musical projects. Thanks for the beats!