The Great Eastern
After two LPs ( 'Domestiques' and 'Peloton' ) named after bicycling terminology, The Delgados have named their third album after a Glasgow dosshouse. Its stern facades keep watch over the inner sleeve, and the inhabitants' troubled spirits...
Delgados : All You Need Is Hate
Just like Charles Manson and Mark Chapman, The Delgados are huge fans of the Fab Four. ‘All You Need Is Hate’ is an artful pastiche of ‘All You Need Is Love’ that transmutes the hemp-scented hippy good vibes of the original into a grand,...
Delgados : London ICA
"FUCK YOU LONDON, WE'RE THE MOTHERFUCKING DELGADOS FROM HEELLLLLLL!!" you wish they'd say, ramming the nearest cello into the teeth of The Independent's popular arts critic. Because all this mouse-like tucking of hair behind ears and nervous...
Delgados : Coming In From the Cold
More jangling insanity from the twisted minds of the Delgados , a band who may as well have the words 'Mercury Prize nominees' tacked to the front of their name and have done with it. Here the warped adult fairy tale mood of 'The Great Eastern'...
The Delgados/Arab Strap: Glasgow Old Fruitmarket
"Looks like this might be a mistake" offers Aidan Moffat. Maybe. Celtic Connections - essentially a folk festival - is expanding its horizons. But maybe booking these legendary Falkirk pissheads is going too far? In fact, the boys (just Aidan...
Chicago The Empty Bottle
It reflects on Britney-land when The Delgados, slated to play The Metro, are crammed into the ashtray-sized Empty Bottle at the last minute. Though swamped with critical acclaim that would make Radiohead nervous, The Delgados remain untapped by US...
Sheffield University Foundry
Presentation really isn't The Delgados ' strong point. They start this gig standing about like guests at a stranger's funeral. Singer Emma Pollock looks even more like a Tiny Tears doll as she gibbers nervously at the crowd when embarrassing...
London WC1 ULU
Something's wrong. Or more specifically, in the heads of The Delgados , something's never been quite right. As 'Repeat Failure' is unleashed, simmering like a surrogate 'Mogwai Fear Satan' , then exploding into a huge wall of noise, it's a...
Aberdeen Works
It's only a temporary glitch, but the shields are down for just long enough. Long enough for us to witness a different, altogether more relaxed, Delgados. Gone, for about five minutes mid-set, is the cool professionalism, the frosty veneer...
