The First Happening

Date: 11/03/23 Venue: By Our Hands We Make Our Way

Gather with the Delia Recordings family for a magical hour under the greenwood tree in the heart of the city. Our first happening.

From years of meticulous writing and recording, an out-of-the-blue phone call, a winter night until closing time in the Gladstone, and many kitchen-table meetings … we’re ready to begin.

New beginnings. New blossomings. New life springs from the frozen ground. A new record label, a new magazine, a new series of happenings, a new time and place to create, perform, document and make beautiful things.

  • A headline performance by the mighty Brown Fang

  • Raif Killips, an artist interested deeply in wildlife and the outdoors

  • Huw Costin from Torn Sail and The Low Drift, intimate songs

  • and the Friends of Delia

Delia Recordings. First Happening. Spring 2023. Saturday 11 March. By Our Hands We Make Our Way

This spring as it comes bursts up in bonfire green,

Wild puffing of emerald trees, and flame-filled bushes

Thorn-blossom lifting in wreaths of smoke between

Where the wood fumes up and the watery, flickering rushes.

From The Enkindled Spring by D.H. Lawrence