Demos 1972 by Delivery

released October 30, 1972

Richard Sinclair - bass & vocals
Steve Miller - acoustic & electric pianos (tracks 1-4)
Dave Sinclair - organ (tracks 7-8)
Phil Miller - guitar
Pip Pyle - drums

Tracks 1-5 recorded sometime between July and mid-October '72, showcasing the more jazzy experimental side of Delivery when Steve led the band. In fact the middle two fragments sound like they're putting together an abstract collage for between songs or something. Exact location and date unknown, but these sound like home recordings (mono and not particularly clean).

Tracks 6-8 are from a separate cassette labeled "First Hatfields Session," making it between 15 October 1972 and December 1972 with Dave Sinclair instead of Steve Miller. These were reportedly recorded at Pip's mum's house in London. The sound quality is still on the wrong end of the fidelity scale, and the playing is closer to Delivery's blues jams than the first Hatfield concert we have:
richardsinclairsongs.bandcamp.com/album/imperial-college

"If I Run" is an early composition of Dave Sinclair's.
davesinclair.bandcamp.com/track/if-i-run


Cassettes dubbed to CD-R for Richard's archives by Mick Capewell in 2001. Mick kept copies, which he graciously shared with us.

"I copied them to CDR from his own old cassette tapes, when he did some tiling work on my house over 20 years ago."
- Mick Capewell

Thanks to Mick for the source files.

Coverphoto: peel.fandom.com/wiki/Delivery


"I just listened to most of the Delivery/Hatfield sessions. Except for the 2 Hatfield tracks I think the sound is okay. The bass motif of the very first track seems so familiar but I just cannot make up my mind what it is. At first I was thinking Matching Mole but it's not on any of the MM stuff I have."
- Joerg Reinicke

"Hi it’s early conception of “if I run” which got its name from Robert Wyatt when he just came out with it feeling the melody. I found a copy of micks cd with that last year labelled 70s bits begin of Hatfield London pips mums house. It has the same clipping noise through it."
- Nic Sinclair

"Presumably recorded at roughly the same time as the concert in the Moat 🤔 Personally I think it would be a bit of a laugh, if you do put it up, to title the upload “The Horrid Bits Are Quite Nice” after the remark one of them makes during a pause. A typical Hatfield-esque title 🤣.
I really think that a LOT of people would love to hear the 1972 stuff. Ok the music isn’t the greatest but I think the ‘Canterbury’ significance far outweighs that. It was a period of flux and it’s the sound of musicians trying to discover their best way to go."
- Mick Capewell
richardsinclairsongs.bandcamp.com/album/an-a1-band

nme.seetickets.com/artist/delivery/365163