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Tellison from the South East of the UK have been making indie-pop waves for some years – generally regarded as one of the UK’s best kept guitar-wielding secrets; sharing stages with the likes of Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, Good Shoes, Hundred Reasons, Hell Is For Heroes, I Was A Cub Scout, Dartz! Dave House, TANAOU, Spy vs Spy, Walter Shreifels, Sam Isaac, Gallows and many more.

Andy Maddison from Inhaler Records talks to Stephen H Davidson from Tellison about gigs, fans and Stuart Lee!?

Q1. I have seen you play live quite a few times over the last couple of years and it has been great to watch you grow in stature as a band over that time. You still look like you are having an immense amount of fun, have things changed for the band much as your popularity and audience has increased?

To be symptomatically and frustratingly human about it, Yes and No. Yes things have changed, a few more people come to our shows, . . . Read More

OFM LIVE REVIEW

Friday March 20th
The Priory ~ Doncaster

It seems a lifetime ago that I first saw OFM play; It was at Spider’s Web in Doncaster and they totally blew me away. At the time it was bigger-is-better mentality, bands were doing everything in their power to split the eardrums of their audiences and being as outrageous as possible – add to that the fact that this was a battle of the bands, and it seems even stranger that OFM were singing pop songs!

Since that introduction to OFM I’ve been witness to many shows since but they’ve never lived up to that first encounter. Until tonight. OFM take the stage, “If we appear to . . . Read More

Cocean: Thick as thieves
Lines in Sand: Moving away to start again

Split Single / Inhaler Records

I love vinyl records – I love the feeling of having a tangible, proper ‘record’ in your hand. It’s a romantic ideology that vinyl is the best format to release music to the masses, but the truth is that vinyl can be expensive and to be honest, even the vinyl freaks I know are buying CDs as their laziness of unwrapping a record sets in. People just sling CDs on a player – if you did this with vinyl, certainly in my house, you’d be doing three laps of the shrubbery in your pants.

Anyway… the Cocean track on this split starts with the . . . Read More

Three Torches

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Originally published in Doncaster Live Magazine 2007

Analogue Recordings is a studio known for its back to basics approach. For refusing to resort to computer technology for recording, its unique traditions attract a variety of bands. Tonight promises to display some of the best talent to have walked through the studio’s doors with six bands taking the stage in The leopard.

Trio Walker are the first to step up, with an epic, progressive set. Their powerful sound has surprising depth, and the band are striking, with bassist and vocalist Jack radiating a Warhol-esque air of mystery. next up is . . . Read More

It is with deep regret that I write about the death of Pete Williams.  Pete, drummer with Sunlounger and more recenty GU Medicine, was a massive force both behind the kit and in person. I had the dubious pleasure of spending a week or two in the back of a van with Sunlounger back in the days of playing with J*R and it will not be forgotten any time soon! . . . Read More

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Doncaster Live February 2008 Edition
Q and A: Above Them

Inhaler’s latest signings Above Them are their biggest and boldest act yet. With an EP on the horizon, a major tour and having conquered the States Richard Mushet catches up with the band on their visit to Doncaster.

How did you meet and get together as a band?

Mark: We’d all played in local bands and Tom had played in a band called Seed, who were plodding along pretty well. I’d played in local bands, only really playing Pontefract and Wakefield now and then. My band were basically . . . Read More

John Fell

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Doncaster Live February 2008 Edition

With The Fontanelles album Three Finger Salute out in February, what better time to catch up with Font’s frontman and elder statesman of the Doncaster scene, John Fell for a nice cosy chat?

“Statesman implies some kind of achievement or power, but thanks” laughs John as we settle down with a pint in his local. Perhaps he hasn’t yet achieved all of his goals in music, but he certainly can’t argue with the ‘elder’ part of our description, having had some sort of involvement with the scene in Doncaster for the best part of 15 years. “Yeah, I started playing in bands around ’93/’94, and the bands I was in slowly evolved into Thumper. Our 2nd gig was Henri’s Music, a big festival over a weekend at Cusworth Hall. It felt absolutely huge at . . . Read More

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Doncaster Live October 2007 Edition

Inhaler Records seemed to spring from nowhere around a year ago, galvanizing the scene with a series of must see gigs, and exposing some of our local talent to the national radio and press. But who are they, and where did they spring from? I caught up with founding member Andy Maddison to find out more…

Introduce the Inhaler team?
Team Inhaler consists of Mr Ben Thomsett, Mr Robin Burns, and myself Andy Maddison.

When did Inhaler Records begin?
About 1989 in my mind! I had always dreamed of setting up a label, but it was not until meeting Ben in 2005 and finding that we shared a love of . . . Read More