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Millimetre is the dream-pop music project of Terence J McGaughey and was founded in Belfast in 1997. At this time, McGaughey was also heavily active in both the 'queerzine' scene, co-writing 'Muffmonsters on Prozac' and Jonathan Greer's much-loved music zine 'The Weedbus'. McGaughey also had an after-hours DJ spot at David Holmes' short-lived cafe Mogwai, entertaining ecstasy-addled clubbers with Karleinz Stockhausen and Throbbing Gristle. Millimetre played a small handful of shows, including support slots with former Gastr del Sol leader David Grubbs and, in a surreal turn of events, Siouxsie. 1996 he co-founded Ireland's only gay and lesbian resource centre, Queerspace, and was for a brief time a key figure in the mid-1990s queerzine/DIY scene with fanzines 'Muffmonsters on Prozac' and 'Ugly Earth'. Moving to London in 1999, McGaughey then launched Millimetre as a solo project, and released the debut album 'Love won out', mastered by Throbbing Gristle's Chris Carter, in 2005 on the label Orectic, followed by 'Obsidian' in 2007 and the download-only single "Missing haitch" in 2008. The fourth Millimetre album 'Heliography' is released in May 2009.

Millimetre's music is considered to be febrile, intense dream-pop influenced by Cocteau Twins, AR Kane and Jane Siberry, whilst incorporating a more eclectic form through the influence of grime, dubstep and other contemporary club musics. McGaughey's main lyrical themes include alienation, displacement, masculinity, rage, self-hatred and gender, and is often couched in mythological symbolism and the influence of poets such as Frank O'Hara, Stevie Smith and e.e. cummings.

Discography: Love Won Out (Orectic Records 2005) Obsidian (Orectic Records 2007) "Missing haitch" single (Orectic Records 2008) Heliography (Orectic Records 2009)