Delivery were a blues/psychedelic rock group, originally named Brunos Blues Band. This was the first band to feature Phil Miller on guitar and Pip Pyle on drums, along with Phil's brother Steve Miller on keyboards and vocals, Lol Coxhill on saxophone and Roy Babbington on bass (replacing founding member Jack Monck). In 1969, after two years gigging around London, they teamed up with singer Carol Grimes, and the following year recorded the album Fools Meeting.
In January 1971, Pip Pyle left and was replaced by Laurie Allan. Delivery broke up soon after and metamorphosed into DC & The MB's (Dyble-Coxhill & The Miller Brothers), with Judy Dyble (ex-Fairport Convention) on vocals, a largely improvisational line-up which toured Holland in May 1971. In August 1972, Steve Miller resurrected Delivery with a line-up of himself, his brother Phil, Pip Pyle and Richard Sinclair on bass, which resulted in a couple of tracks on the Coxhill-Miller album released the following year.
When the latter three musicians went on to form Hatfield And The North, yet another (final) version of Delivery was assembled by Steve Miller, this time with the returning Lol Coxhill, Roy Babbington and Laurie Allan, but Babbington then joined Soft Machine and Miller and Coxhill carried on as a duo, with occasional participation from Allan. Delivery was resurrected for a one-off gig at London's Vortex jazz bar on June 29th, 1998 (with a line-up of Steve Miller, Phil Miller, Lol Coxhill, Pip Pyle, Carol Grimes and Fred Baker); this was a benefit for Steve Miller, who sadly died of cancer six months later.
Links to Peel[]
Peel played tracks from the group on his shows in 1970, when they released an album with Carol Grimes called Fool's Meeting. The band also did a session for his show in January 1971.
Sessions[]
1. Recorded: 1971-01-04. First Broadcast: 23 January 1971. Repeated: 03 April 1971
- We Were Satisfied / Fools Meeting / Home Made Rain
Other Shows Played[]
Delivery - Fools Meeting 1970 (full album)
- 1970
- 21 November 1970: Miserable Man (LP - Fools Meeting) B&C
- 05 December 1970: We Were Satisfied (LP - Fool's Meeting) Charisma