Welcome to a page dedicated to the complete history of Tally Hall! It all started with Andrew Horowitz (green tie), Rob Cantor (yellow tie), and Zubin Sedghi (blue tie) back in December of 2002. At their very first show at the Frieze Basement, they played "Another Minute", "Just Apathy", and "Stan", an Eminem cover. At some point in college, Cantor met Joe Hawley (red tie). As they became friends, Hawley gave Cantor a CD showcasing his musical abilities. This CD included songs like "Lady Madonna", a Beatles cover, an early version of "The Mind Electric" called "Inside the Mind of Simon", and "L'Frou Jibet". Cantor then asked Hawley and Steve Gallagher (former grey tie) to join his band, Hawley on guitar, and Gallagher on drums, thus creating Gallagher. They played under that name for a few shows, until changing their name to 540, and finally Tally Hall, the name of an old shopping plaza/food court. After doing a couple shows, they went and recorded some demos in Hawley's bedroom/attic, 4 of which ending up on their first-ever EP, released in April of 2003, "Party Boobytrap". In November of that same year, they recorded "Banana Man", which they then released as a single. In April of 2004, they released their second EP, "Welcome to Tally Hall". In November of that same year, they compiled the 2 EPs, and the Banana Man single into an album, titled "Complete Demos". "Good Day" would win 1st place in the 2004 John Lennon Scholarship competition, winning Horowitz 10,000 dollars. In 2005, the band started touring outside their general hometown. That same year, they signed to the Quack! Media record label, so that they could record their first album. It took 4 months to record and produce this album. Finally, on November 22nd 2005, they released "Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum". On September 12th the next year, they rereleased "M.M.M.M", fixing a couple errors. 2 years later, on April 1st 2008, they re-released it for the 3rd time, but this time, on the major-label Atlantic Records. The 2008 version is the most well-known version out of all of them. The next year, the band was commissioned to write a song for a book called "The Magician's Elephant", that song being "Light and Night", featuring Nellie McKay on vocals. After the book's release, they went to record their second album. A lot of the album's songs wound up being played live at some point. They released the album, which was called Good and Evil, NOT on Atlantic Records, but on Quack! Media, like the 1st 2 versions of "Marvin's". Ever since then, the band broke up, the last release from them being "Admittedly Incomplete Demos", a follow-up to "Complete Demos". BUT, in 2020, they signed onto Needlejuice Records, and re-released "Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum" for the 4th time, and a reissue of "Good and Evil" has been made, so maybe there could be a 3rd Tally Hall album soon?
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