During the long hiatus over the summer hemisphere summer I took a road trip to Melbourne. On the way what should come up on the playlist but a Peel session by Delta 5. I’d not heard them for years and had mentally filed them away as a dour feminist outfit. Therefore I was quite surprised to hear how funky they were, and the humour in their songs. Since getting back home I’ve been trying to track down more of their stuff, but apart from a decade-old album of re-releases and a single Youtube clip there doesn’t seem to be much out there. I knew they were part of the Gang of Four/Mekons crowd at Leeds Uni and I think I might have seen them at least once (but I saw so many bands then it’s all a blur). Anybody got any idea what happened to them – the only info I can find is a few anecdotes from their former drummer, who said they would ‘never reform in a million years’.
Whatever happened to … Delta 5?
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Loved Delta 5. Mind Your Own Business, You, Anticipation – all bought at the time and still treasured, along with a copy of See The Whirl. I’m not sure they recorded much more than these and the sessions. A CD copy of ‘Singles and Sessions’ you could find fairly reasonably.
They did one single, mid -late 1982, Powerlines. I ended up with a copy in a pile of promo singles I got to walk away with from a visit to Capital Radio in the October. Not a bad little single.