Artists Research

Delirious?

I have chosen to study a similar band to my own in Destiny, but one with more history to gage what forms and styles of music work well in this genre.
Delirious? was once known as the Cutting Edge band as you already may know as part of the small church in Littlehampton. They wrote songs which later became popular amongst UK listeners in the early 90's. It was around this time that the band produced their first albums that were aimed at a young audience in a successful attempt  to help bring young people a fresh sense of church. They were seen as quite radical as they continued to reach out to people without hope, and the band soon made a name for themselves as the 'most exciting band on the UK Christian scene.'
In four years, the band was working full time and was joined by a new guitarist, Stu G, and a new bassist, Jon Thatcher.
There first Cutting Edge songs changed people's view of worship music and their King Of Fools album (1997)  made a massive impact on how mainstream music industries viewed Christian music.

For some industries, the band was controversial, but their success was undeniable.
As the band grew and had another big hit with their single, Deeper, America prepared to let them take off in their music industries. King Of Fools sold 200,000 copies after being in the American charts for 18 weeks.

The band continued to maintain their UK audience as well as pass on their songs throughout a worldwide audience. The album World Service and previous albums were later released with the help of Virgin Records in mainstream America and distributed through EMI to Canada, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.

Delirious?  released their album The Mission Bell and then later produced their last album, Kingdom of Comfort along with a few other live albums, e.g. Now Is The Time which was recorded at Willow Creek as they went on tour across the United States. Their Farewell Tour album was recorded in London's O2 arena. http://www.delirious.org.uk/section.php?id=27

This is one of their earliest music videos, from 1999 and there song, 'It's Ok' which shows the lead singer and a female actor, Dominica Warburton. The record label for this song is Furious? Records.
The purpose for the Delirious?'s music video is for getting a message across which is what Delirious? spent the entire time as a band devoted to. The videos aren't mainly purposed for advertising, however this was a side effect of these music videos. Delirious? hasn't made many music videos either - there are only two that I know of.
This music video shows two people including Martin Smith, (lead singer) as the shots switch from one to the other as if portraying a conversation between the two of them, until the final stage of the song where the band becomes part of the video with a more performance-like touch to the song. The lighting changes and becomes a vibrant golden/yellow.
The music video is unusually straight and simple compared to most with not much creativity, but it does what the band wanted to do in the fact it gives a message, almost a question by standing out in the odd, again not advertising the band all that well with dynamic shots but plain which gives the audience a help in focussing on the idea behind the lyrics and the meaning of the song.



This music video which they did later on has more dynamics to it as they've come into a new era of music videos with more creativity. So they've thought more about how to use their creativity to get a message across: