trensmat
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August sees The Telescopes playing their first ever Irish dates, supported by Magnetize.
Sunday August 13th - Lazybird, The International, Dublin. (Night Terrors EP launch)
Friday August 18th - The Tikki lounge, Cork.
Saturday August 19th - The Boat club, Limerick.
The Telescopes have been pushing audio frontiers since 1988 releasing now regarded classics on Creation, Cheree and What Goes On. In 2002 after an eight year void they returned with the Third Wave LP on NYC label Double Agent. Their new sound is characterised by improvised drone/noise pieces, which have been released by Hungry Audio, Fourier Transform, Double Agent and reissues on Revola, Spaceage, Midsummer Madness and The Committee To Keep Music Evil prompting the NME to declare 'the genius of The Telescopes'.
They are now the first release on Trensmat Records, an new independent Irish label specialising in transmitting drone, noise and oscillations on vinyl. The 'Night Terrors' EP is a very limited edition 7" of free drone audio druidry recalling Suicide, AMM and Metal Machine Music-era Lou Reed.
Live reviews 1 2 3 4
Magnetize makes music which has been loosely classified as dark dancefloor electro/techno (on Templedog Records) and spooky space music (on Rimbaud Records). See here for details and audio samples. For these gigs it'll be the spooky-space-stuff.
especially since I'll be indoors the rest of the weekend working... 
