Delphic

I went to see this great band play live at the Cockpit in Leeds on 10th February. I first had the pleasure of seeing them live at the trendy Nation of Shopkeepers bar where for French record label Kitsune they performed a mini tour in October 2009. The band supporting that night were a little known Northern Irish band called Two Door Cinema Club who as I think everybody knows have since become a massive deal. Ironically that night TDCC made fun of Delphic’s lighting show by having a tiny disco ball and I daren’t think how sophisticated their lighting show is now!

Delphic have a habit of having great support bands and since TDCC have had bands such as Everything Everything who recently scored a top 10 album with their second offering Arc. Another worthy examples are Mirrors whose synth-pop deserves a much bigger audience. With this in mind I was quite looking forward to finding out who was supporting Delphic only to find out that the only other act was a DJ who played unrecognisable dance tracks. When a re-edit of Delphic’s Olympic song Good Life was played it seemed to be the signal that the band would soon take to the stage. We managed to stand on a little step near the fire exit which acted like a little podium for an elevated and better view of the stage. Annoyingly, the photographers at the front quickly realised this and tried to squeeze on taking photos behind our heads for a while.

Delphic at the Cockpit

Their live set was mesmerising with hardly any gaps in between songs creating a dancey feel and the odd muttering from James thanking the crowd for coming out on a Sunday night. The new songs off recently released second album Collections sounded great. The album has been harshly criticised by critics for trying to  dip into too many genres and become trailblazers rather than following the musical trend. The album is definitely a grower and starting off with recent single Baiya, the band seamlessly switched back and forth from songs featured on their debut Acolyte, which I reviewed for Music-News.com. Memeo is surely a contender for next single thanks to it being as catchy as  older songs like Halcyon or Doubt. One of the gig highlights has to be the crowd singing ‘Let’s do something real’ from This Momentary.

Annita with James and Rick after the gig.

After the gig, James and Rick took the time to have a chat with me and my girlfriend and have their photo took as well as signing the new album which capped off a brilliant night. I managed to mention this blog to them and my girlfriend is now their official Twitter fwiend and proud owner of a Delphic t-shirt.