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The Telescopes

I’m gibbering, I’m jelly. Let me try and explain as lucidly as I can what just happened. I’ve seen (as it were) a lot of different kinds of volume. From the time in 2004 when The Fire Engines and Franz Ferdinand blew out my left ear due to an unecessary excess of high-end to compensate […]

Ten Questions for The Telescopes

  1) Who are you, who is in the band, who does what in the studio and on stage? The Telescopes have a revolving line up, it changes all the time. 2) How long have you been writing and performing in this way? Since 1987, with a break from 1992 – 2000  3) How exactly […]

The Telescopes, Delta Mainline, St Deluxe, Black Spring DJs

The Telescopes, Delta Mainline, St Deluxe, Black Spring DJs

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 […]

The Telescopes

THE TELESCOPES. BEYOND THE REALM OF NATURAL VISION. Founded in 1987 by Stephen Lawrie, The Telescopes have been mining a unique anti-myopian seam of highly influential experimental, drone, noise, dream & psych for over 20 years. Their first record was a split flex-disc with Loop on the Cheree label.  After a further two critically acclaimed […]