“People take what they want from the gigs,” continues James quietly. “If you’re standing down the front then maybe it’s more of a rave, but if you’re standing at the back you can chin-stroke to your heart’s content.”
Once Delphic started putting on their own gigs in late-2008, things snowballed fast. Live footage shown on Manchester TV station Channel M brought the A&R men scrabbling to sign them.
Delphic soon found a home for their debut single on Belgium’s classic ’90s techno label R&S.
“R&S was home to Aphex Twin and Derrick May, so many great acts,” enthuses Rick. “They’d been inactive for 10 years and relaunched with a new band – us!”
And as well as the songs, the lads have fallen in love with filmmaking.
“We’re naturally retiring people,” says Rick. “We prefer to make films or sit at our computers doing music, that’s what we get a buzz off, and we’re much less bothered about being known as rock stars than we are about being known as artists and musicians.”
This combination of art and party spirit is very Manchester and Delphic are marinated in the city’s classic collision of ordinary blokeness with high end-ideas. It’s a heritage they’re happy to acknowledge.
Delphic play the Kazimier under the EVOL banner on Thursday January 21. For details, see www.thekazimier.co.uk
