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The Delgados / Six By Seven @ Koko, London, 30.11.04

Delgados

With John Peel now spinning records for his own personal amusement in the sky, who's going to play their records? It's a celebration and a lament kind of thing. James Berry has the details.

10/12/2004

There’s a tall man dressed in black, wearing a leather jacket that’s a fraction too petite for his build, pacing a small area of the large stage imposingly, the commanding focus of a band that offer little in the way of visual focus. Chris Olley (for he is that man), might not have ‘it’ but he’s definitely got something, and that something should really be good enough. It’s hard to work out why it’s not. In a country that gives the impression of expecting only that (X-Factor siphons millions from it in phone revenue every Saturday night, and did it ever fulfil its presumptuous title, just once?) it should be more than enough. But despite composing 4 albums of and ahead of the moment they still languish unappreciated, shedding members, label-less, stripped, alone. And that’s sad.

They’re not precisely what they used to be – a swelling organic approximation of Spiritualized and the Pixies – that’s evident through a stronger reliance on sequencing these days. It’s effective on some of the newer songs, the electronically-laced ‘Bocham’ glints like a tastefully dressed Christmas tree tonight, but generally comes across as a mark of necessity. Which is how they seem in themselves too. As they lost members they carried on because they had to, but not exactly like their life depended on it, more through habit. The stage is staffed with men making music, and that’s that. But that’s what still makes them vital too. Their air of urgency may have eroded down to its stump, but there are songs to redress that. Songs that are plaintive and hopeful, like a sudden break in the storm clouds. Songs that are punishing, like they’ve drained every iota of charge from their poles pushing against the grain. And that’s why they must trudge onwards.

Tonight is practically a night-shelter for the culturally neglected. The Delgados have never faltered, never been put through the grinder, always released jubilant fucking king-sized colloquial pop music and always received the torrents of free-flowing praise they so obviously deserve. And they've delivered albums with happy regularity and pleasing tweaks. They should be a benchmark, played twice a week on the Vic’s jukebox on Eastenders and probably selling millions this Christmas soundtracking Richard Curtis films. But instead they’re a footnote, and now John Peel’s gone who’s even going to play their records?

They’re the kind of band you want to make toast for. The sort for whom you’d even pop out and buy another box of teabags. They’re so adorable – I mean look at Emma, she’s only as big as the guitar she’s disciplining up there with relish – so warm, so accommodating, and exhibiting such an easy rapport it only makes the mainstream’s ignorance seem more hurtful. The majority of their currently underrated guitar-pop masterpiece, ‘Universal Audio’, is breezed through like Teenage Fanclub and Nico having a pillow-fight across the entire 60s. ‘Get Action!’ is like a bittersweet Boo Radleys and ‘Is This All That I Came For?’ like XTC skipping betwixt fluffy clouds. Pre current-tweak Delgados is also visited pleasingly, ‘Accused Of Stealing’ and ‘Coming In From the Cold’ performed with the sort of vibrant intensity that swallows you in one. “If we pay all of your taxi fares home, will you stay till the end?”. Why does everyone not LOVE this band?!

Relevant sites:
http://www.delgados.co.uk



James Berry for Crud Magazine 2004©

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