{"id":840839,"date":"2025-04-12T18:12:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T23:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/12\/were-pretty-good-at-going-from-zero-to-a-hundred-clash-meets-delivery\/"},"modified":"2025-04-12T18:12:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T23:12:03","slug":"were-pretty-good-at-going-from-zero-to-a-hundred-clash-meets-delivery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/12\/were-pretty-good-at-going-from-zero-to-a-hundred-clash-meets-delivery\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe\u2019re Pretty Good At Going From Zero To A Hundred\u201d CLASH Meets Delivery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>It\u2019s 9PM on a Friday in the packed out, glittery interior of Hackney\u2019s notorious <strong>MOTH Club<\/strong>. The room is brimming with sweat, mullets and excitement, as Melbourne garage-punk rockers <strong>Delivery<\/strong> take to its stage for the second time in six months. The Covid-born ensemble waste no time as they rapidly launch into an action-packed set filled with choppy guitar riffs and an infectious level of chemistry that leaves many an audience member grinning from ear to ear.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Delivery - The New Alphabet (Official Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nO_plNpf47o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>The crowd clearly reflects the kind of network the five-piece originate from, as it finds itself abundant with fellow musicians and creatives who are tapped into the DIY music sphere. They\u2019ve been appropriately warmed up by Manchester trio\u00a0<strong>Fruit Tones<\/strong>, whose bassist\u00a0<strong>C.J Wood\u00a0<\/strong>is later invited back up to the stage during Delivery\u2019s headline set. He then promptly throws himself off it again, and crowd-surfs all the way up to a steel pipe that runs along the venue\u2019s ceiling, which he clings onto momentarily in a sloth-like fashion before finally Tarzan-ing his way back down and rejoining the masses.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<figure><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clashmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/DSC8758.jpg\" alt  ><\/figure>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLong live MOTH Club!\u201d shouts vocalist\/bassist\u00a0<strong>Bec Allan\u00a0<\/strong>into her microphone, in solidarity with the grassroots venue, which has recently come under threat of closure due to planning applications for the construction of luxury apartments next door. She\u2019s clad in a pair of corduroy trousers, and wears a baggy blue shirt fitted with a loosened tie, perhaps a nod to the office job she worked at while coming up with much of the lyrical material for the group\u2019s latest album\u00a0\u2018Force Majeure\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The record was released in January via Heavenly Recordings, home to the likes of\u00a0<strong>Kneecap<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Lynks\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Pan Amsterdam<\/strong>. It\u2019s the follow-up to their 2021 debut\u00a0\u2018Forever Giving Handshakes\u2019,\u00a0and serves as a subversive and humorously unapologetic critique of life\u2019s monotonies. The group was formed in 2020 by Allan and her flatmate: guitarist, vocalist and synth player\u00a0<strong>James Lynch.\u00a0<\/strong>The original lineup also consisted of\u00a0<strong>Lisa Rashleigh\u00a0<\/strong>(guitar, vocals) and\u00a0<strong>Daniel Devlin\u00a0<\/strong>(drums, vocals), both of whom left the band to pursue other endeavors after wrapping up the recording of\u00a0\u2018Force Majeure\u2019.\u00a0Thankfully, lineup changes are quite commonplace among Melbourne\u2019s DIY bands, and in a smoothly orchestrated transition, they were replaced by guitarist\/vocalists\u00a0<strong>Jordan Oakley\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Scarlett Maloney\u00a0<\/strong>and drummer\u00a0<strong>Liam Kenny.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clashmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/DSC8771.jpg\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clashmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/DSC8771.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.clashmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/DSC8771-200x300.jpg 200w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" ><\/figure>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>The band sit down with CLASH a few hours before the show. They\u2019ve just come off stage having completed their soundcheck, and four of them eventually roll through to the venue\u2019s bar one by one for a Red Stripe and a chat. Lynch is the first to arrive, with Allan following suit shortly afterwards. They\u2019re in good spirits, and are excited to be back in the English capital, albeit only for a fleeting visit. This is the last of a sixteen-date run of shows the band have played across Europe over the last few weeks, having only accumulated a total of three days without doing a gig since the start of the tour on February 17th.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow they\u2019re up at the crack of dawn and headed straight for New York, where that same evening they\u2019ll make their American debut, before going down to Austin for a string of gigs at SXSW. Indeed, there ain\u2019t no rest for the wicked. \u201cI can\u2019t even think about that right now,\u201d chuckles Allan, shaking her head\u00a0\u201cLiterally tomorrow night we\u2019re going to be in New York playing a show which is pretty fucking surreal.\u201d Lynch agrees, \u201cWe\u2019re still in that state of mind where we\u2019re like \u2018Whoa! We\u2019re in London playing a show!\u2019 So the idea that we\u2019re playing in America for the first time ever tomorrow feels like a bridge we can only really cross when we come to it.\u201d Still, he remains optimistic about the exciting nature of the challenge ahead, boldly stating \u201cWe\u2019re pretty good at going from zero to a hundred.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clashmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/DSC8779.jpg\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clashmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/DSC8779.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.clashmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/DSC8779-200x300.jpg 200w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" ><\/figure>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Last September, <strong><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/london\/moth-club-hackney-flats-plans-petition-noise-complaints-b1195617.html\">the owners of MOTH Club reached out to local residents in a social media statement <\/a><\/span><\/strong>asking them to support opposition to a development that could \u201cpose a serious threat\u201d to the venue, which has been in existence since 1972. In November, it was revealed that two more development proposals were submitted to Hackney council, further putting the venue\u2019s future in jeopardy. \u201cWe heard about the MOTH Club\u2019s situation all the way from Australia, so the word has definitely spread. Hopefully the campaign can rally people up and make a big difference. You need venues like this to keep the scene alive,\u201d explains Lynch. \u201cMelbourne\u2019s got the same issue, where every month a venue is suddenly closing, or it has to get a petition going, or start a Go Fund Me to try and save it. I also feel like most people running grassroots venues all over the world at the moment are doing so purely for the love of it, as they don\u2019t really generate much in the way of profit. We\u2019re very grateful to those people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Doubling down on this, Allen asks \u201cWhat would you do without grassroots venues? You\u2019d never have anywhere to play your first show.\u201d She continues, \u201cYou might only get ten or thirty people coming to see you sometimes, so to have places that will understand that\u2019s a part of the process, and still give you a crack is pretty instrumental to the music industry in general.\u201d Lynch agrees, saying: \u201cI feel like you never outgrow those places either, even if you\u2019re able to play bigger rooms. There\u2019s a venue in Melbourne called The Curtin that we\u2019ve played a bunch of times, and we always describe it as playing at our home ground.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clashmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/DSC8726.jpg\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clashmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/DSC8726.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.clashmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/DSC8726-200x300.jpg 200w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" ><\/figure>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re soon joined by Jordan Oakley and subsequently Liam Kenny, and the conversation turns to Melbourne\u2019s local scene. \u201cThe deeper you go into it, playing with bands and forming new friendships and stuff like that, it feels like the community can be limitless. There\u2019s always new bands forming,\u201d explains Oakley. \u201cYou\u2019ll get bands that are on the rise and then suddenly they\u2019ll just stop, and then they\u2019ll be back two years later. You can\u2019t really encapsulate it.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Lynch builds on this,\u00a0\u201cI\u2019ve always felt very lucky about the fact that there\u2019s such a brewing music scene out there, one that\u2019s very self-sustaining.\u201d He continues, \u201cI\u2019m not saying there isn\u2019t heaps of ambition there, but most bands are doing it regardless of whether or not they\u2019re going to be successful. I think all five of us have that mentality. Just being part of that community gives us the fulfillment we need to keep at it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kenny, who is originally from Adelaide and has lived in a number of Australian cities, before inevitably ending up in Melbourne says\u00a0\u201cMy experience is a bit different to these guys. Adelaide is a lot smaller than Melbourne, so not as many bands from there get the recognition they deserve, but you still get waves of awesome bands coming out of there.\u201d He goes on, \u201cIt\u2019s also got a great DIY community. I also lived in Sydney for a bit which has a smaller scene, and then I\u2019ve been in Melbourne for a year and a half and it\u2019s just psycho how much goes on down there!\u201d When asked which other bands are worth paying attention to, the ensemble all pause for a second, before opening fire. They list dozens of names, including the likes of\u00a0<strong>Eggy<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Pinch Points<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Checkpoint<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Dr Sure\u2019s Unusual Practice<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Program<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Cool Sounds<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Dom Sensitive\u00a0<\/strong>and \u201cpretty much any band on\u00a0<strong>Spoilsport Records<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clashmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/DSC8768.jpg\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clashmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/DSC8768.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.clashmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/DSC8768-200x300.jpg 200w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" ><\/figure>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Following the completion of\u00a0\u2018Force Majeure\u2019\u00a0last July, the band had to quickly adapt to its second incarnation. Making an album with one ensemble, then promoting and touring it with another is a pretty unconventional way of doing business, and not one that sounds at all easy to carry out. Having said that, the group are relatively nonchalant in their recollection of how things unfolded. \u201cIt\u2019s funny because obviously it\u2019s a bit of a weird situation, but it felt quite natural because we\u2019re such good friends with our old band members, and we\u2019ve always been in the loop with how they\u2019re feeling about stuff,\u201d says Allan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously they had different ambitions for their lives and careers, but it felt really nice to make the album together, as it was kind of the last thing we got to do as a team before moving on.\u201d She continues,\u00a0\u201cWe\u2019re just really appreciative of the new crew for being like \u2018alright let\u2019s go!\u2019 and for the fact that they don\u2019t mind playing our songs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She laughs as she goes on to recall the brief overlap period between the two incarnations of the band: \u201cThere was one weekend in Newcastle (New South Wales, not Tyne and Wear) where we had one show with the old band, one show with the new band, one show with two members of the new band and one members of the old band. But we\u2019re all friends so it feels weirdly natural in a way.\u201d Lynch adds to this, \u201cI sort of describe it as passing the baton; you make an album and think that\u2019s that chapter finished, but then you\u2019ve got all the promo stuff and then like a year or so of touring it.\u201d He expands, \u201cWe weren\u2019t really aware that the change was going to be such a big thing until we were in the thick of it, but fortunately it\u2019s been pretty smooth so we\u2019ve been really lucky.\u201d Speaking from the other side of the fence, Oakley says \u201cIt felt like hopping on a moving train, but in a fun way. I\u2019ve been a fan of the band for a long time, and friends with these guys for quite a few years.\u201d Allan quickly jumps in, affirming that likewise, Delivery had also been highly influenced by their new band mates\u2019 former bands.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clashmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/DSC87821.jpg\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clashmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/DSC87821.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.clashmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/DSC87821-200x300.jpg 200w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" ><\/figure>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Last summer, Heavenly Recordings wasted no time in signing the band after hearing\u00a0\u2018Force Majure\u2019. Speaking encouragingly about the new partnership, Lynch says: \u201cThey heard the album and a day or so later they were in our emails, and then they wanted to call us. After that there was probably a little bit of teething time, because we\u2019d sent stuff out to other people, but after a bit we were like \u2018why would we want to work with anyone else?\u2019\u201d He continues,\u00a0\u201cThey\u2019re all really lovely, they\u2019ve got great taste in music, and they loved our record. That kind of enthusiasm goes a long way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Packed with a fun assortment of straight up punk bangers, the record is an upbeat takedown of all things uninspiring. \u201cThere\u2019s lots of lyrics about tediousness and monotony on the album. I was working an office job full time when we wrote this record, so a lot of the lyrics I was writing when I was either at work, or commuting to work.\u201d Says Allan, \u201cI guess it\u2019s easy to think of those kinds of themes when you\u2019re doing something that you find a little bit boring.\u201d Reinforcing this, Lynch concludes by stating \u201cIt\u2019s a funny time to be alive, so there\u2019s lots to be critical of!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Delivery - Deadlines (Official Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r7kCwJMevkw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018Force Majeure\u2019 is out now.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Words: <strong>Fin Harrison<\/strong><br \/>Live Photography: <strong>Ashley Evans<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\n                                                        <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.weare8.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                                                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"970\" height=\"250\" alt=\"Join us on Weare8\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clashmusic.com\/wp-content\/themes\/chop-child\/images\/WeAre8-banner.jpg\" previous-src=\"http:\/\/www.clashmusic.com\/wp-content\/themes\/chop-child\/images\/WeAre8-banner.jpg\"><br \/>\n                                                        <\/a>\n                                                    <\/p>\n<p>Join us on WeAre8, as we get under the skin of global cultural happenings. 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The Covid-born ensemble waste no time as they rapidly launch into an action-packed set<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":840840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2744,2882],"tags":[12385,6094],"class_list":{"0":"post-840839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pretty","8":"category-were","9":"tag-pretty","10":"tag-were"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}