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2021: Still Here!

Well 2020 didn’t quite pan out as we’d hoped, did it?

Our (now) annual appearance at the wonderful The Eyes Have It festival in Derbyshire was cancelled due to some sort of pandemic, and even though we did our best to keep rehearsals/writing sessions going, this proved increasingly tricky with our home town of Birmingham flying the flag for high infection rates.

However, you can’t keep a great band down and TELSEN are now chomping at the carefully-sterilised bit to get back into the studio and pick up where we left off.

Before Boris & Co. told us to stay at home, we were beginning to create, in an appropriately socially-distanced stylee, some wonderful new material. Our singstress Abi plays a bigger part in some of the new stuff (both writing and taking the lead vocal) plus we’re playing around with different sounds/instrumentation. During the numerous lockdowns we’ve been sharing new musical influences and generally whetting our appetite for future creativity. “New” drummer Luke (he’s been with us for a year already) has been putting the rest of to shame with his dedication to improving his craft – he was good before, he’s amazing now. Nick, Karl and David have also been processing new ideas and lyrical influences that can be introduced into new music as soon as we’re allowed.

So hello 2021! You don’t scare us. We’re ready for you. TEHI has been rescheduled for this summer and we’re optimistic that TELSEN will be back and firing on all cyclinders.

In the meantime, there are quite a few live performance clips available on our Facebook page and YouTube so please keep in touch with our music until we can be out there breaking microphone stands and kicking musical ass “in the flesh”.

Speaking of microphone stands, here’s a unique TELSEN-patented “Post-breakage mobile microphone support apparatus“, currently unavailable in retail outlets…

 

 

 

Luke Who’s Drumming!

We have a new drummer!! Sadly, Mike left us at the end of 2019 (we wish him all the very best in his other musical ventures!) and Luke Glattback stepped in during rehearsals for our two remaining shows of December and January (a support slot for The Killaz and a private party, both at the brilliant Route 44 in Acocks Green, Birmingham).

Despite his tender years (he’s still a teenager so brings down the band’s average age nicely), Luke has been playing for a few years now and after just a handful of rehearsals was able to dazzle at both gigs and has recently been part of the bit we really love – writing new material. We look forward to more writing and recording with Luke over the next few months.