Guitarish music with an English accent

Too Late To Run is an alternative English rock band (very alternative) making real (real weird) music with real passion.

Too Late To Run [TLTR] is the musical passion project of English born songwriter, producer, and guitarist Lea Llison. 

Born into an era often credited as one of the best in all of human history for its plethora of great bands and great music (that’s right millennials, the 70s), Lea was blessed to have a talented classical guitar player for a father, and a mother who always supported his musical ambitions. From a young age, Lea would get to toy around in a musical household on drums, piano, bass and acoustic guitars, until eventually falling for the electric guitar whilst watching Marty McFly blast Van Halen at his sleeping father and rock out to Johnny B. Goode in the now classic film, Back to the Future.

From that point on, Lea would dive head first into the magical world of the greats. Artists like Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Eric Clapton, Deep Purple and Rainbow, Dire Straights and Mark Knopfler, Sting and The Police, The Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Van Halen, David Lee Roth, Steve Vai, Billy Sheehan, Stuart Ham, Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malmsteen, Nuno Bettencourt and Extreme, Guthrie Goven, Benny Greb.. (I’ve always wanted to make a list ! :). Now then, admittedly, Lea sounds nothing like any of those incredible musicians, but he does like to funk with his guitar an awful lot. So one might call them influences.

Through his teenage years, Lea developed his axiam chops playing in local bands and jamming with friends. At age 15, he was a runner up in the UK’s Young Guitarist Of The Year competition, which aired one Saturday afternoon on the BBC.. and where he was finally sucker punched by some 10 year old kid who had probably never even heard of Yngwie! (I wonder if he went on to be famous?). Man, I hope that footage never reappears!! (Am I still supposed to be writing in the third-person?) By age 18, Lea and his band, Cuboard – don’t ask – had recorded their first fully independent album of ten original songs, entitled, “Going Mad in Practice Town” at Adelaide Studios in Braintree, Essex, and had begun to acquire an unstoppable thirst for world domination and the yearning ambition to become international rock stars!

Well, that was all good and fun. Back on earth..

After the band had fallen apart for the umpteenth time, Lea saw an opportunity to temporarily leave the shores of the UK and the promise of certain musical success for adventures further afield in Europe and the Middle East. He never returned. But he does, at least, still have his hands. Though his European passport was mercilessly torn from them by the Great British electorate. 

Today.. which is basically many years later.. Lea has two amazing boys, Nathan (future world leader and saxophone player) and Jesse (future to be determined, and drummer). He works out of his liwwle home studio in a remote Swedish forest, mostly writing and recording with collaborators from around the globe. And he enjoys learning about music production, orchestration, arranging, writing, guitar and the music business with Berklee Online, whilst drinking from a fountain of posh coffee.

“It’s been a lot of years since I rocked the foundations of a house with real drums, real guitar amps, and had the neighbors complain about the noise. So this is it MFs. Thanks for being here and I hope I can do something that yo’ll will llison too more than once. But I should warn you – once you hear it you can’t unhear it. It’ s too late to run mwhaha!”