The Telescopes/St Deluxe/Sat 11thApril/Captains Rest/Glasgow

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The Telescopes/St Deluxe/Sat 11thApril/Captains Rest/Glasgow

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We’re really excited about playing this very special gig with Stephen Lawrie of the Telescopes on Sat 11th of April at the Captains Rest in Glasgow!

Stephen will be playing a solo acoustic set then we’ll be joining him as ’scopes for the nght for a couple of tunes to bring the set to an end!! We’ll also be starting off the night with an acoustic set with some of the songs from our album.. Looking forward to mixing it up and playing them differently..

You can buy tickets here!
http://tinyurl.com/thetelescopes-stdeluxe-tix

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Here’s all the details!

The Telescopes (solo Acoustic set + Short Electric set with St Deluxe as backing band)
Support from St Deluxe (acoustic set)
DJ Joe Foster (Poppydisc Records/Creation Records/Rev-Ola Records)
Saturday 11th April 2009
The Captains Rest
185 Great Western Road
Glasgow
Doors 8:00
Price ï¿¡5+booking fee

Tickets Available from:
Tickets Scotland
239 Argyle Street Glasgow
(Beneath Central Station Bridge)
tickets-scotland.com / 0870 220 1116

Monorail Music
12 King Court King Street Glasgow / 0141 552 9458

Not only that but a week before we do that we'll be playing King Tut's wth 'Facing New York'
Really lookinig forward to playing Tut's again!
get tix for that here!!

http://tinyurl.com/stdeluxe-kingtutstickets

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thanks for reading!
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Nice Preview in the Skinny...

http://tinyurl.com/telescopes-preview-skinnymag

Tickets for this on sale form the link below or from Monorail in Glasgow!

http://tinyurl.com/thetelescopes-stdeluxe-tix
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Re: The Telescopes/St Deluxe/Sat 11thApril/Captains Rest/Glasgow

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do you guys have an angle or something?
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If you class 'an angle' being playing music for the love of it, putting on our own shows with people who we've always loved and doing something that is pretty exciting like promoting a gig with the Telescopes and actually playing with Stephen for a couple of songs. well, yeah, that'll be our angle.
What's yours?
Just thought there might be some people who would like to come to this and maybe we could make enough cash to cover the costs of putting something like this together in a DIY sense..
better than sitting about innit?
Martin. Guitar player in St Deluxe..
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sounds great mate, wished I lived across the pond, I'd certainly be there.
I think I feel it coming on
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http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/feature ... 5164690.jp

Music Review: The Telescopes
The Scotsman

13 April 2009
By DAVID POLLOCK
LITTLE-remembered in comparison with their contemporaries on the shoegazing and spacerock scenes of the late Eighties such as My Bloody Valentine and Spacemen 3, the Telescopes are still clearly beneficiaries of a few fond memories.
Or rather, their singer, guitarist and bandleader Stephen Lawrie is, for he's the only member still performing under the name to this day.

For a group whose finer moments were built on a wall of electric guitar noise, the one-man-band approach mig
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ht be troublesome. Yet this show was marked by real charm and spirit right from the start, as Lawrie anonymously set up his own acoustic guitar and then asked for changes in lighting and sound levels. Most probably suspected he was the road crew; such is the lot of the only vaguely-remembered indie star.

Yet Lawrie was also – if only briefly – a member of the Creation Records indie aristocracy, which is a badge of honour before a certain audience. Here, he played six songs acoustically, including Telescopes classics The Perfect Needle, And Let Me Drift Away… and Wish of You.

Substituting hanging silences for the traditional slabs of feedback, each was intimate and mesmerising, with the druggy allusions that were so popular at the time they were written transformed into world-weariness and bittersweet daydreaming.

There was one final surprise: the appearance of the support act, Glasgow's St Deluxe, for a two-song encore that included a reprise of The Perfect Needle. It was just stunning, a cataclysm of noise, with Lawrie hunched on the floor and bellowing. It recalled a particularly naked form of music which few but his backing band even approach these days.
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