The Telescopes
Schedule
Sat Sep 28 2024 at 06:30 pm to 10:00 pm
UTC+00:00Location
TWO PALMS | Leytonstone, EN
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Fishbowl Events PresentsThe TelescopesTwo Palms, Hackney
28th September 2024
After we had an amazing show at Shacklewell Arms with The Telescopes back in 2021 we're very excited to have them back at Hackney's newest venue! They're back with an amazing new album "Growing Eyes Becoming String."
Growing Eyes Becoming String is the sixteenth studio album from British noise-rockpioneers The Telescopes. Recorded between Berlin and Leeds back in 2013, it’s a lostTelescopes treasure that nearly never was, rescued from the ether and now finally set forrelease by Fuzz Club Records.
The origins of Growing Eyes Becoming String go back a decade when, in 2013, TheTelescopes were invited to record an album at Brian Jonestown Massacre's new studio-in-progress in Berlin. With a line-up consisting of founding member Stephen Lawrie andLondon psychedelic unit One Unique Signal.
On reaching Berlin, the group teamed up with good friend and author/visual artist WillCarruthers (Spacemen 3, Dead Skeletons). Carruthers, also a skilled carpenter, builtsoundproofing boards and recruited Anton’s producer at the time, Fabien Leseure, andtogether they sourced equipment from all over the city and soon had a functioning studio upand running. Between Boxing Day and New Years Day, most of the music for the four tracksthat would make up side one – ‘Vanishing Lines’, ‘(In The) Hidden Fields’, ‘Dead HeadLights’ and ‘We Carry Along’ – was recorded, with Lawrie planning on finishing up back inhis own studio.
On returning to the UK, the group turned to Richard Formby (Spectrum, The JazzButcher) in Leeds for side two. Here, Lawrie and the band began to flesh out the record,laying down the three tracks – ‘Get Out Of Me’, ‘What You Love’ and ‘There Is No Shore’ –that would make up its B-side.
“The objective with both sessions was to go in blind and be entirely in the moment”, Lawrierecalls: “There were no preconceived ideas, everything was written as it went along. Muchlike the drive to Berlin with almost zero visibility, we were relying on the heightened instinct ofbeing entirely in the now.”
The result was shaping up to be another masterfully hypnotic set of compositions thatmatched its more melodic spaced-out moments against heavy drone-rock blow-outs.However, before Lawrie could finish the recording and mixing, a crashed hard-drive meantthat the recordings were presumed lost forever and The Telescopes moved on to otherprojects. Fast-forward to a few years ago and Byron of One Unique Signal by chanceuncovered some forgotten back-ups of the sessions and over the pandemic, Lawrie finallywent back to finish what he started.
Where their physical output at the time mostly consisted of experimental noiseimprovisations, so far removed from any obvious structure, Growing Eyes Becoming Stringshows how The Telescopes were actually creating more song-based music in a parallelexistence.
Across its seven tracks are all the trademarks of quality that long-time fans associate withThe Telescopes’ music. Solid songs, melody, harmony, noise, dissonance, improvisation,experimentation and an all-embracing journey beyond the realm of natural vision. As Lawrieputs it: “Loaded with guitars, noise and melody, swirling around pounding repetition, GrowingEyes Becoming String is a more vocal document of where The Telescopes’ head was atduring that time.”
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