Telstar Ponies

After David Keenan Guitar Vocals Departed From 18 Wheeler In 1994 He Formed The Telstar Ponies In Glasgow Scotland With Singer Rachel Devine Gavin Laird Guitar Vocals And Former Teenage Fanclub Drummer Brendan O'Hare. Originally Viewed By Some Critics As A Weak Knock-Off Of Teenage Fanclub However From The Singles Maps And Starcharts In 1994 Her Name & Not Even Starcrossed In 1995 To Their Their First Album In The Space Of A Few Minutes Their Sound Developed Into Something Much Darker Denser And More Experemental. With Their Second LP 1996's Voices From The New Music The Band Continued To Develop The Experimental Themes Not Bound By Any Genre Boundaries. The Group's Intense Frequently Infuriating And Excellent Live Performances Often Involving Improvisation Helped Inspire Post-Rock Acts Such As Mogwai & Godspeed You Black Emperor!. When O'Hare And Laird Left The Band In 1997 To Form Macrocosmica Telstar Ponies Stopped Recording Instead They Unleashed Side Projects Like Phantom Engineer Lonecop Fiend & Rainspies. The Group Reunited In 1999 Added Bassist Raymond Prior To Their Lineup And Recorded An Album's Worth Of New Material But This Was Never Released. The Band Gradually Drifted Apart. Devine Laird And Prior Went On To Form The Porch Song Anthology. read less