The Telescopes

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Flying 02:52 Tools
The Perfect Needle 03:29 Tools
You Set My Soul 05:01 Tools
And 00:00 Tools
There Is No Floor 00:00 Tools
Violence 00:00 Tools
Oil Seed Rape 00:00 Tools
And Let Me Drift Away 00:00 Tools
Anticipating Nowhere 00:00 Tools
Threadbare 00:00 Tools
High on Fire 00:00 Tools
Splashdown 00:00 Tools
Celeste 00:00 Tools
Suicide 00:00 Tools
Silent Water 00:00 Tools
Spaceships 00:00 Tools
I Fall, She Screams 00:00 Tools
Everso 00:00 Tools
Suffercation 00:00 Tools
Please Before You Go 00:00 Tools
The Presence of Your Grace 00:00 Tools
Please, Before You Go 00:00 Tools
Yeah 00:00 Tools
Ocean Drive 00:00 Tools
I Fall She Screams 00:00 Tools
Please Tell Mother 00:00 Tools
To the Shore 00:00 Tools
Sadness Pale 00:00 Tools
Another Sky 00:00 Tools
All a Dreams 00:00 Tools
Wish of You 00:00 Tools
The Sleepwalk 00:00 Tools
precious little 00:00 Tools
A Cabin in the Sky 00:00 Tools
Never Learn Not to Love 00:00 Tools
Deep Hole Ends 00:00 Tools
Tesla Death Ray 00:00 Tools
Celestial 00:00 Tools
3D Jesus Ashtray 00:00 Tools
The Atoms of the Sea 00:00 Tools
A Good Place to Hide 00:00 Tools
Winter #2 00:00 Tools
Moog Destroya 00:00 Tools
never hurt you 00:00 Tools
My Name Is Zardak (Drop Your Weaponz) 00:00 Tools
You & I Are the Foxboy Noises 00:00 Tools
Soul Full of Tears 00:00 Tools
Pure Sweetest Ocean 00:00 Tools
When Nemo Sank the Nautillus 00:00 Tools
Tornado 00:00 Tools
Treasure 00:00 Tools
To Kill a Slow Girl Walking 00:00 Tools
And Let Me Drift Away... 00:00 Tools
You Can't Reach What You Hunger 00:00 Tools
The Perfect Needle #4 00:00 Tools
You Can Not Be Sure 00:00 Tools
Perfect Needle 00:00 Tools
Where It Comes from Where It Goes 00:00 Tools
i sense 00:00 Tools
16T#3 00:00 Tools
Winter #7 00:00 Tools
16T#4 00:00 Tools
You Know The Way 00:00 Tools
Sunspray 00:00 Tools
Extended Intro Piece 00:00 Tools
S.H.C. Burn 00:00 Tools
Candy Says 00:00 Tools
From the Inner Void I Fear... 00:00 Tools
Household Objective #2 00:00 Tools
Forever Now 00:00 Tools
All the Way Around (Tout est dans le moment) 00:00 Tools
Until the End 00:00 Tools
In Every Sense 00:00 Tools
Something in My Brain 00:00 Tools
Absence 00:00 Tools
Demon Landscape 00:00 Tools
Down on Me 00:00 Tools
Everything Turns Into You 00:00 Tools
Hand Full of Ashes 00:00 Tools
We See Magic and we are Neutral, Unnecessary 00:00 Tools
The Sleepwalk (Sitar Version) 00:00 Tools
You Were Never Here 00:00 Tools
shc burn 00:00 Tools
Don't Place Your Happiness in the Hands of Another 00:00 Tools
High on Fire (EP Version) 00:00 Tools
Don't Bring Me Round 00:00 Tools
There Is No Floor [Live At Harlow Square Club] 00:00 Tools
Sadness Pale [Live At Harlow Square Club] 00:00 Tools
I Know You've Got Something Inside (Driving You Crazy) 00:00 Tools
Threadbar 00:00 Tools
Threadbare [Live At Harlow Square Club] 00:00 Tools
The Sleepwalk - Sitar Version 00:00 Tools
Nothing Was Held 00:00 Tools
Suicide [Live At Harlow Square Club] 00:00 Tools
Dnaanb 00:00 Tools
Why Are We Doing This to Each Other 00:00 Tools
7th # Disaster 00:00 Tools
nothing 00:00 Tools
High On Fire - EP Version 00:00 Tools
Handful of Ashes 00:00 Tools
The Blue Shroud Of Alkatraz 00:00 Tools
Strange Waves 00:00 Tools
7th #Disaster 00:00 Tools
this planet 00:00 Tools
cold 00:00 Tools
The Living Things 00:00 Tools
Fall She Screams 00:00 Tools
From the Inner Void I Fear 00:00 Tools
7th# disaster 00:00 Tools
Never Learn Not to Love You 00:00 Tools
The Hypnotic Pulse of the Motor Driven 00:00 Tools
Household Objective #4 00:00 Tools
The Speaking Stones 00:00 Tools
The Good's Gone 00:00 Tools
All the Leaves 00:00 Tools
My Name is Zardak [Drop Your Weaponz] 00:00 Tools
When Nemo Sank the Nautilus 00:00 Tools
Singularity 00:00 Tools
A Measure of Imbalance 00:00 Tools
The Desert In Your Heart 00:00 Tools
Link #1 00:00 Tools
Another Whip 00:00 Tools
The Telescopes - Taste - 10 - Suffercation 00:00 Tools
Fear the Eye Became the Tone 00:00 Tools
On a Dead Man's Bones by the Light of the Moon Skeletons Dance a Demon Dance of the Doomed 00:00 Tools
All A Dream 00:00 Tools
Psychic Viewfinder 00:00 Tools
The Yearning 00:00 Tools
HELD 00:00 Tools
It Bleeds 00:00 Tools
Become The Sun 00:00 Tools
Winter #4 00:00 Tools
DSM-IV AXIS 1307.46 00:00 Tools
There Is No Floor (Live) 00:00 Tools
Sleepwalk 00:00 Tools
Tornado - Alternative Version of Flying 00:00 Tools
High on Fire - May 1992 00:00 Tools
Threadbare (Live) 00:00 Tools
There Is No floor/Sadness Pale/Threadbare/Violence 00:00 Tools
Sadness Pale (Live) 00:00 Tools
Suicide (Live) 00:00 Tools
Everything Must Be 00:00 Tools
TORN 00:00 Tools
Flying - May 1992 00:00 Tools
Extended Intro Piece [#] 00:00 Tools
From the Inner Void I Fear... [#] 00:00 Tools
Black Eyed Dog 00:00 Tools
Dead Inside 00:00 Tools
16T#3 [#] 00:00 Tools
High on Fire (May 1992) 00:00 Tools
Flying / Transmutations / A Cabin In The Sky 00:00 Tools
Rockabilly Holidays 00:00 Tools
Please, Before You Go/Suicide 00:00 Tools
To the Shore - (Live) [John Peel Session 15/9/91] 00:00 Tools
Please Tell Mother - (Live) [John Peel Session 15/9/91] 00:00 Tools
Presence of Your Grace 00:00 Tools
Their Lying Backs 00:00 Tools
Splashdown - (Live) [John Peel Session 15/9/91] 00:00 Tools
Tornado (Alternative Version of Flying) 00:00 Tools
Limerick 00:00 Tools
I Wanna Be Your Dog 00:00 Tools
A Cabin The The Sky 00:00 Tools
The Presence of Your Grace - (Live) [John Peel Session 15/9/91] 00:00 Tools
Kick the Wall 00:00 Tools
Italian Air 00:00 Tools
And / A Lantern Burns For Navigators Lost 00:00 Tools
Flying (May 1992) 00:00 Tools
Mind Hold 00:00 Tools
...And Let Me Drift Away 00:00 Tools
Static Charge 00:00 Tools
Never Learn Not To Love(The Beach Boys) 00:00 Tools
Losing Substance chasing Shadow 00:00 Tools
Something In My System Somewhere, But I Don't Know What 00:00 Tools
Sadness Pale - Bonus 00:00 Tools
northumberland 00:00 Tools
lifting lies 00:00 Tools
There Is No Floor - Bonus 00:00 Tools
To Be Honest, to Be Quite Honest 00:00 Tools
Pulsing Bead 00:00 Tools
Where The Sky Is Low 00:00 Tools
Black Eyed Dog (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Threadbare - Bonus 00:00 Tools
Eulogy For The Lamb 00:00 Tools
Dsm-1v axis 1307.46 (Night Terrors) 00:00 Tools
Forever Close Your Eyes 00:00 Tools
Green Aliens Bop 00:00 Tools
Thought Loops 00:00 Tools
Shredded Walls 00:00 Tools
Suicide - Bonus 00:00 Tools
Dogs 00:00 Tools
To the Shore ((Live) [John Peel Session 15/9/91]) 00:00 Tools
This Is The Last Of What's Coming Now 00:00 Tools
Chrome Gulls 00:00 Tools
Please Tell Mother ((Live) [John Peel Session 15/9/91]) 00:00 Tools
Retrograde Death Jacket 00:00 Tools
You've No Idea What This Is Like For Me 00:00 Tools
Candy Says - The Telescopes 00:00 Tools
Why Are We Doing This To Each Other? 00:00 Tools
Splashdown ((Live) [John Peel Session 15/9/91]) 00:00 Tools
The Presence of Your Grace ((Live) [John Peel Session 15/9/91]) 00:00 Tools
The Living Things (Session) - Bonus 00:00 Tools
Morning dew 00:00 Tools
When they fear no death, for they are dead already 00:00 Tools
Sandness Pale 00:00 Tools
bones draw breath 00:00 Tools
Circus Motion 00:00 Tools
Dsm-1v Axis 1:307.46 00:00 Tools
Psychic Viewfinder 2 00:00 Tools
Dnaand [Remix of "And" by Moon, 2004] 00:00 Tools
This Is Mewing 00:00 Tools
Tornado [Alternative Version of "Flying" by Stephen Lawrie, 1991] 00:00 Tools
16T 4 00:00 Tools
16T 3 00:00 Tools
Dead Already 00:00 Tools
The Last Forty Miles To The Border 00:00 Tools
Tell Me 00:00 Tools
Every day and every night 00:00 Tools
Sadness Pale (John Peel Session) 00:00 Tools
Swingin' Around 00:00 Tools
Another Sky. 00:00 Tools
Pandemonium 00:00 Tools
The Telescopes - Swingin' Around 00:00 Tools
Theadbare 00:00 Tools
tidal bandwith 00:00 Tools
From the Inner Void I Fear.. 00:00 Tools
The Fire On the Farm 00:00 Tools
you're not lucky 00:00 Tools
Neighboorhood Healtcare...(And the Horse You Rode in On) 00:00 Tools
The Presence Of Your Grace (John Peel Session 15/9/91) 00:00 Tools
Thrown 00:00 Tools
spashdown 00:00 Tools
Please Tell Mother (John Peel Session 15/9/91) 00:00 Tools
12 High on Fire 00:00 Tools
Morning Dew(Grateful Dead) 00:00 Tools
What Else Do You Want? 00:00 Tools
To the Shore (John Peel Session 15/9/91) 00:00 Tools
tidal bandwidth 00:00 Tools
Splashdown (John Peel Session 15/9/91) 00:00 Tools
Candy Says (The Velvet Underground Cover) 00:00 Tools
winter#7 00:00 Tools
drive 00:00 Tools
On a Dead Man's Bones By The L 00:00 Tools
Last of Whats Coming Now 00:00 Tools
Grow Lonely 00:00 Tools
Not Where I Lay 00:00 Tools
We See Magic... 00:00 Tools
Silent Water (John Peel Session) 00:00 Tools
Track 3 00:00 Tools
Alpha-Brax Manificus 00:00 Tools
Threadbare (Live At Harlow Square Club) 00:00 Tools
There Is No Floor (John Peel Session) 00:00 Tools
winter #2 preview 00:00 Tools
The Accident 00:00 Tools
Louisville Slugger 00:00 Tools
The Telescopes - Everso 00:00 Tools
mind fold 00:00 Tools
Remington Ride 00:00 Tools
The Telescopes - Taste - 10 - Suffer 00:00 Tools
Suffercation (John Peel Session) 00:00 Tools
Over Now 00:00 Tools
02 High On Fire 00:00 Tools
Anticipation Nowhere 00:00 Tools
The Telescopes - Celeste 00:00 Tools
Link # 1 00:00 Tools
Sadness Pale (Live At Harlow Square Club) 00:00 Tools
In Communion With The Bishop 00:00 Tools
Suicide (Live At Harlow Square Club) 00:00 Tools
There Is No Floor (Live At Harlow Square Club) 00:00 Tools
07 Flying 00:00 Tools
7th# Diaster 00:00 Tools
01 splashdown 00:00 Tools
You Cannot Be Sure 00:00 Tools
05 The Presence Of Your Grace 00:00 Tools
Goldmine 00:00 Tools
10 please tell mother 00:00 Tools
dnaand 00:00 Tools
03 You Set My Soul 00:00 Tools
DSM-IV Axis 1:307.46 00:00 Tools
landing shadows 00:00 Tools
Forevr Now 00:00 Tools
Taste 00:00 Tools
The Perfect Needle (Trainspotting) 00:00 Tools
06 And 00:00 Tools
Please, Before You Go / Suicide 00:00 Tools
THE TELESCOPES - High On Fire 00:00 Tools
The Sleepwalk [Sitar Version] 00:00 Tools
Winter # 4 00:00 Tools
Suffocation (Radio 1 Session, 16 May 1989) 00:00 Tools
Silent Water (Radio 1 Session, 16 May 1989) 00:00 Tools
As Light Return 00:00 Tools
Good News Bad News 00:00 Tools
Lost Boys 00:00 Tools
09 ocean drive 00:00 Tools
# 00:00 Tools
Flying (Tornado Mix) 00:00 Tools
Please, Before You Go/Suicide (Live) 00:00 Tools
DSM-1V Axis 1:307 46 00:00 Tools
There Is No Floor (Radio 1 Session, 16 May 1989) 00:00 Tools
THE TELESCOPES - Splashdown 00:00 Tools
The Telescopes - Flying 00:00 Tools
08 yeah 00:00 Tools
All In Dreams 00:00 Tools
02 Treasure 00:00 Tools
Twangin' Across The Universe (instr.) (2011) 00:00 Tools
My Name Is Zardak 00:00 Tools
Suffer 00:00 Tools
#7th Disaster 00:00 Tools
And/A Lantern Burns For Navigators Lost 00:00 Tools
Flying (normal) 00:00 Tools
night machines 00:00 Tools
A2 - Thought Loops 00:00 Tools
untitled (outro) 00:00 Tools
Andrew's Stomp (2012) 00:00 Tools
Flying (Auditory Illusions Version) 00:00 Tools
A1 - Static Charge 00:00 Tools
B2 - Chrome Gulls 00:00 Tools
All the Way Around 00:00 Tools
There Is No Floor / Sadness Pale/Threadbare / Violence 00:00 Tools
11 to the shore 00:00 Tools
Household Objective#2 00:00 Tools
The Telescopes: The Living Things 00:00 Tools
No Reason To Cry 00:00 Tools
Do Everything You Can Do 00:00 Tools
psychic viewfinder #1 00:00 Tools
the perfect needle#4 00:00 Tools
The Fire On the Farm (2012) 00:00 Tools
B1 - Tidal Bandwith 00:00 Tools
Thredbare 00:00 Tools
Link 1 00:00 Tools
Spaceships (normal) 00:00 Tools
04 Spaceships 00:00 Tools
From the Inner Voice I Fear 00:00 Tools
Household Objective #3 00:00 Tools
Suffercation (Album) 00:00 Tools
7th sharp disaster 00:00 Tools
split mountain 00:00 Tools
When You Came Into My Life 00:00 Tools
Psychic viewfinder #2 00:00 Tools
Every Girl I Know (Wanna Get So Much) 00:00 Tools
Untitled 00:00 Tools
Second Darkness 00:00 Tools
Soundhead 00:00 Tools
Please Tell Mother [John Peel Session 15/9/91] 00:00 Tools
[A.L.M.D.A] An Altered Perception 00:00 Tools
and/ a lantern burns for navigators lost 00:00 Tools
04 spsceships 00:00 Tools
high on fire (epversion) 00:00 Tools
flying(tornadomix) 00:00 Tools
sleepwalk(sitarversion) 00:00 Tools
The Telescopes - Precious Little 00:00 Tools
Suicide (Album) 00:00 Tools
Telescopes - Flying 00:00 Tools
Every Night and Every Day 00:00 Tools
Winter#2 00:00 Tools
You Know The Way (Hidden Fields) 2015 00:00 Tools
THE TELESCOPES - Spaceships 00:00 Tools
HELD (2013) 00:00 Tools
THE TELESCOPES - Yeah 00:00 Tools
The Presence 00:00 Tools
Sleepwalk (Sitar Version) 00:00 Tools
the perfect needle ( album , "taste" , 1989 ) 00:00 Tools
The Living Things (Session) [Bonus] 00:00 Tools
The Telescopes 00:00 Tools
To the Shore (Live [John Peel Session 15/9/91]) 00:00 Tools
Hell Yeah 00:00 Tools
The Telescopes - Suffercation 00:00 Tools
Please Tell Mother (Live [John Peel Session 15/9/91]) 00:00 Tools
The Presence of Your Grace (Live [John Peel Session 15/9/91]) 00:00 Tools
Perfect Needle (Live) 00:00 Tools
Mooga Destroya 00:00 Tools
Splashdown (Live [John Peel Session 15/9/91]) 00:00 Tools
Splashdown [John Peel Session 15/9/91] 00:00 Tools
what else do you want 00:00 Tools
To the Shore [John Peel Session 15/9/91] 00:00 Tools
Winter 4 00:00 Tools
All the way thru (Tout Est Dans Le Moment) 00:00 Tools
Threadbare (Live at Harlow Square Club 25.11.89) 00:00 Tools
Suicide (Live at Harlow Square Club 25.11.89) 00:00 Tools
THE TELESCOPES - You Set My So 00:00 Tools
Houshold Objective #4 00:00 Tools
You Set My So 00:00 Tools
I Fall, She Screams [Album] 00:00 Tools
Soundhead(Loop) 00:00 Tools
THE TELESCOPES - Ocean Drive 00:00 Tools
Please, Before You Go (Album) 00:00 Tools
THE TELESCOPES - To The Shore 00:00 Tools
disaster 00:00 Tools
Silent Water (Album) 00:00 Tools
You Set My Soul (unreleased) 00:00 Tools
THE TELESCOPES - Please Tell M 00:00 Tools
Cabin In The Sky 00:00 Tools
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'beyond the realm of natural vision' Formed in 1987 by Stephen Lawrie, The Telescopes have been mining a unique anti-myopian seam of drone/dream noise & psych for over 20 years. Their first release was a split flexi disc with Loop on the Cheree label in 1988, followed by the snarling 7 inch "Kick the Wall", and the pounding "7th# Disaster" EP. They moved to What Goes On Records in 1989 and stormed the independent charts with stream of output, including a livid debut LP "Taste" and "The Perfect Needle" EP, which captured the hearts of a grateful nation. A live album appeared on Fierce Records and after signing to Creation Records, a more psyche induced sound followed with singles like "Flying", and their "#Untitled Second" album. Now perceived by many as a lost classic, the record was a commercial failure at the time and in 1994 the band disappeared from the public eye. After an 8-year void The Telescopes returned as an 11 piece featuring core members Stephen Lawrie & Jo Doran with a new album "Third Wave" on NYC label Double Agent. John Peel, who said he was both "amazed and glad they were still practicing their mysterious art", championed the album. In 2003 the group scaled down to four and toured the UK and Italy improvising free drone noise pieces, culminating in the Winter EP on Hungry Audio, regarded by many as one of the groups finest. At the Audioscope festival in 2004 The Telescopes finished their set by drilling through gtr pickups. The Fourier Transform label released a recording of the event as a ltd edition, hand numbered, blue vinyl split 10" single, with Vibracathedral Orchestra on the flipside. Re-issues of early material followed, on great labels like Rev-ola, Spaceage, Midsummer Madness and The Committee To Keep Music Evil, bringing their sound to a new generation of ears, and prompting the NME to declare 'the genius of The Telescopes'. The Telescopes 4th album was released on their own Antenna label in 2005: "in another universe altogether... incredible" (Nat Cramp NME); "Sublimely present music, knowingly spontaneous". (Frances May Morgan, Plan B). They embarked on a UK tour with support from Experimental Audio Research. And despite incarceration, deportation and escape from a burning car wreck, made it back to the studio to record a mesmerizing acoustic session for Double Agent entitled 'Auditory Illusions', featuring a video by Dan Hopkins. After a second tour of Italy and a handful of UK appearances came The Telescopes Hungry Audio Tapes, a fabulous mini album for Hungry Audio, and the alluring Night Terrors EP. The first in a series of ltd edition 7"s for the Trensmat label: "it has a very real & crazy originality that carries fat tons of wallop" (The Wire); "check out the telescopes' excellent 7", which contains two epic funereal dirges". (Julian Cope). During this period the line up disintegrated. In 2006 Bridget Hayden joined. An artist in her own right, Bridget was also a co founder of Vibracathedral Orchestra. Both Hayden and Lawrie were shocked by the intensity of their first jam, and the collaboration continues to confuse and electrify: "Together they harness a primeval drone, rich in texture, and build it beautifully in unison with soaring feedback, guitar manipulation & viola which forever spiral outward, fractal and hypnotic - a bed of noise percolating at the edges of audition." As a volcanic two piece they toured Europe, Scandinavia, the West Coast of America and released two 7"s for Trensmat. The Wire magazine described "Psychic Viewfinder" as "A great feedback symphony and "Another Whip" as "Another amazing single by the revived Telescopes; the new version of this outfit has been consistently spectacular". Both records sold out within an hour of pre-release. In 2008 they unleashed "Infinite Suns" on the Textile label. The Telescopes 6th album is a selection of analogue tape recordings taken in a room used for seances, with a multi directional microphone used to capture environmental response. Recording levels were set close to saturation, allowing for chance interaction with the tape machine. Side one closes with an improvisation anchored on a lock-groove from the final throes of "Taste". It is locked again to play endlessly. Bridget & Stephen continue to play together sporadically, either as The Telescopes or Infinite Suns. A new single "Landing Shadows" is scheduled for release on the Champion Version label in March. All copies have sold out in advance. The Telescopes live experience is currently Stephen Lawrie and members of either The Fauns, or One Unique Signal. The live album "Live. Aftertaste" is scheduled for release in March, on the Static Charge label. It is a livid document, recorded in past/present/future tense; a rare and memorable glimpse into the waves beyond the realm of natural vision that first inspired Lawrie to write the original back in 1988. Most recently, "Taste" has been reissued by BOMP! along with the tracks from The Perfect Needle EP. Trensmat has issued the Black Eyed Dog 7" (2012), and Neon Sigh has issued the 7th LP from The Telescopes, entitled "HARM", in late 2013. The Telescopes project is currently performing shows internationally and more singles are scheduled to follow in 2014. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.