The Telescopes

According to many, shoegaze started with Alan McGee’s Creation record label: bands like The Jesus & Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine and The Telescopes. The latter stood at the dawn of modern-day shoegaze with their single The Perfect Needle. During the making of debut LP Aftertaste, Stephen Lawrie and cohorts were experimenting more with noise and spacerock and together with Spacemen 3, they became one of the founders of these genres. The Telescopes can count Portishead among their fans.