The Telescopes

Fishbowl Events Presents

The Telescopes

Sierpinski

Two Palms, Hackney

28th September 2024

We're very excited to have The Telescopes back, this time at Hackney's newest venue!

Bringing with them an amazing new album "Growing Eyes Becoming String."

Growing Eyes Becoming String is the sixteenth studio album from British noise-rock

pioneers The Telescopes. Recorded between Berlin and Leeds back in 2013, it’s a lost Telescopes treasure that nearly never was, rescued from the ether and now finally set for release by Fuzz Club Records.

The origins of Growing Eyes Becoming String go back a decade when, in 2013, The

Telescopes 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 and London psychedelic unit One Unique Signal.

On reaching Berlin, the group teamed up with good friend and author/visual artist Will Carruthers (Spacemen 3, Dead Skeletons). Carruthers, also a skilled carpenter, built soundproofing boards and recruited Anton’s producer at the time, Fabien Leseure, and together they sourced equipment from all over the city and soon had a functioning studio up and running. Between Boxing Day and New Years Day, most of the music for the four tracks that would make up side one – ‘Vanishing Lines’, ‘(In The) Hidden Fields’, ‘Dead Head Lights’ and ‘We Carry Along’ – was recorded, with Lawrie planning on finishing up back in his own studio.