Delays

Delays

Another spectacularly unspectacular keyboard-orchestra offering from Delays, then, and one with what sounds like Christmas bells at the end this time (in April! Gadzooks!). In the same way a roomful of chimps with typewriters will eventually end...

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Delays

Delays

You’ve all been waiting for Delays to return, right? No? Well, the Southampton scamps are back and still peddling the sort of uneasy electro-pop that sounded dated in 2004. ‘Love Made Visible’ begins with a tasteless vocoder and then gets...

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Delays: You See Colours

Delays: You See Colours

Forgotten British Scenes No 65,397: The Cloudfelchers. Year: 2003. Dress: baggy denim, bedhair, tatty trackie top. ‘Vibe’: airy pop, girlish falsettos, ‘summery’. Effect on listener: chilled, pleasantly ‘rocked’, thinking about...

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Delays: Valentine

Delays: Valentine

Unlikely though it might sound from your first listen to this pulsating, lude-fuelled descent into disco psychosis, it was once possible to set your watch by the steady drip of Delays’ (still not ‘The’) musical output. One or two notable...

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Delays : Becky Matthew's House, Muswell Hill, Monday Nov 20

Delays : Becky Matthew's House, Muswell Hill,...

PRE-GIG The guerrilla gig, it has to be said, is not one of life’s more complex artforms. It should, in theory, involve a couple of ‘musicians’ found decomposing in a Whitechapel gutter, a handful of cheap speed and a bassist determined to...

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Delays : Lost In A Melody

Delays : Lost In A Melody

Christ! What’s happened to Delays? Last time we looked, Greg Gilbert and his band of sunny South Coast janglers were the best Byrds-inspired power-pop pretty boys since Silver Sun (sigh). Now, with Franz-fever in full swing and every...

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Delays : Faded Seaside Glamour

Delays : Faded Seaside Glamour

Like flash floods and Jack White's right hook, some things you just don't see coming. Cloak and dagger style, they sneak in, and when you least expect it, jump out of the darkness and into the (spot)light. Thing is, it's been happening...

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