We’re tremendously excited to be welcoming legendary English noise / space rock / dream pop / pysche innovators The Telescopes to headline our first Limbo of Autumn, with support from equally spell-binding Edinburgh crew Delta Mainline and Glaswegians St Deluxe. What a bill!
For the uninitiated, The Telescopes were signed to legendary indie label Creation Records back in the late Eighties, recording two BBC Radio 1 sessions for the late, great John Peel and influencing the likes of Slowdive, Ride and the Brian Jonestown Massacre with their unique sound.
With fans today as diverse as Portishead (who booked them for the All Tomorrow’s Parties, in 2011), The Black Angels / Reverberation Appreciation Society (who invited them to Austin Psych Fest, in 2012), The Wire magazine, the NME and ‘arch-drude’ Julian Cope (The Teardop Explodes), all of whom hailed their recent seventh studio album, HARM (via Seattle’s Neon Sigh label), a recent tour covered Scandinavia, Europe, Russia, Latvia, Estonia, Ukraine, the UK and the US and a new album is now in the works. In short, The Telescopes are currently winning over a whole new generation of music lovers, worldwide. Are you ready to join them?
As usual, the Black Spring DJs will be joining the dots between the live acts and keeping the party going afterwards.
Tickets: £5 (early bird) / £8 (advance) / £10 (on the door)
REVIEWS FOR THE TELESCOPES’ NEW ALBUM, HIDDEN FIELDS:
8/10. Finest record for over a decade. Prepare to be pulverised.
Dom Gourlay. (Drowned In Sound).
8/10. The Telescopes endeavour to explore the subtle
relationships that exist between silence, noise and poetry.
Ilia Rogatchevski. (Louder Than War).
Somehow they sound more vital than they ever did.
Jeremy Allen. (The Quietus).
An empowering sense of fearlessness.
Paul Gleason. (Stereo Embers).
**** Uncompromising as ever.
james Oldham (Q Magazine).
7/10. The perfect needle. Pitched into the red every time.
Jon Dale. (Uncut).
3/5. Continue to get better with age.
Andrew Carden. (Mojo).
3.5/5. Demands to be listened to as a whole.
Andy Page. (God Is In The TV).
Veers into listening space like some second coming.
Mark Barton. (The Sunday Experience).
3/5. Unexpected astronomical event.
Phil Smith. (Record Collector).
8/10. In a world consumed by the scourge of‚ ‘polite rock‘
we need bands like The Telescopes more than ever before.
John Bittles. (Kultur Magazin).
What ‘psych’ should really sound like.
Rich Buley. (Echoes and Dust)
A truly magnificent adventure to a world of sonic abandonment.
Del Chaney. (Primal Music Blog).
A mighty head-nodder of an album.
Ludovic Hunter-Tilney. (The Financial Times)
An inner sensory blitz.
Ola’s Kool Kitchen. (Artrocker).
A fine, smooth trip to the dark side of beauty.
Anthony Strutt. (Pennyblackmusic).
Math-noise en route to the abyss.
Aldo Chimenti. (Rockarilla).
4/5. Strangely mesmerising and addictive.
Graeme Marsh. (Music OHM).
Their most addictive record since the nineties.
ZR. (Destroy/ /Exist). ALBUM OF THE MONTH.
An outstanding album.
Paula Michelle Hamilton. (Levitation Magazine).
If you love good dirty psyche,
this is one of the best releases of the year.
Jism. (Addict Culture).
A hypnotically sensorial experience.
Dominic Valvona. (Monolith Coctail).
Connects deep into the subconscious.
Paul Rigby. (The Audiophile Man).
4/5. Behold thy glorious racket.
Duncan Harman. (The Skinny).
9/10. Such a beautiful noise.
Sean Hewson. (Soundblab).
6/6. Beautiful, hypnotic, dark and full of paranoia.
Matthias Skeppstedt. (Gaffa).
10/10. Stonkingly good.
Leo Newbiggin. (Whisperinandhollerin).
7/10. Roars out there, like a hungry beast.
Franco Lys Dimaur. (Distorsioni)
A striking return (in every sense).
Raúl Julián. (Muzikalia).
80/100. An album worth listening to.
Wim Guillemyn. (Peek-a-boo Magazine)
A heady rush of devotional sonics.
(Norman Records)
3/5. Over 35 minutes of relentless cool.
Yves Weber. (éclat).
3.5 *. A complexity that jostles us to check on our being.
(Rock Decibels).
Such substance and uncompromising bleakness.
(Isolation)
7.5. Demonstrates the good form The Telescopes still maintain.
(Blisstopic)
A mesmerizing and addictive oeuvre.
TF. (Oh Fancy Blog).
9/10. Big cinema!
TN. (Hörerlebnis Magazin).
