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The Telescopes is tagged as: shoegaze, dream pop, space rock, noise pop, indie

The Telescopes were formed in 1987 by Stephen Lawrie and could best be described as a noise/space rock band - The Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine and Spacemen 3 being influences and contemporaries.
Their debut release was a split flexi disc with Loop on the Cheree label in 1988. There followed their debut single, “Kick the Wall”, and “7th# Disaster” also on Cheree Records. They moved to What Goes On Records and released their debut LP, “Taste” and “The Perfect Needle” single which is perhaps their most famous song. A live album appeared on Fierce Records and following What Goes On’s bankruptcy they signed to Creation Records. A more laidback, baggy influenced sound followed and the band scraped the lower reaches of the UK singles chart with singles like “Flying”, and released “The Telescopes”, their second album, in 1992. It was a commercial failure and the band disappeared from the public eye.
They toured again with a different line-up, new sound and all new songs in 1994 and later evolved into Unisex releasing a number of records. Unisex were Stephen Lawrie (Vocals) Jo Doran (Guitars/Backing Vocals) Nick Hemming (Guitars/Keyboards) Dan (Drums) Foz (Bass).
In 2002 they made a surprise re...
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Top 10 The Telescopes Songs
The Perfect Needle
Flying
You Set My Soul
And
Oil Seed Rape
There Is No Floor
Violence
Suicide
Please Before You Go
High on Fire
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Taste
Altered Perception
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