Delivery – when your band gets started during COVID, you know you’re on to something.

Delivery tonight – recorded at the Great Wide Open Festival on Vieland Island in the Netherlands on September 26, 2025.

Both broadening and defying the sounds of their first two 7” releases, Delivery continue their claim for the title of hardest and fastest working band in town on their debut full length LP ‘Forever Giving Handshakes’.

Collecting songs written over the Melbourne five-piece’s two year lifespan and following on from the band’s bedroom project origins of ‘Yes We Do’ and the expanded one-two punch of ‘Personal Effects/The Topic’, ‘Forever Giving Handshakes’ captures Delivery at full force for the first time, leaning into the fully-realised live sound they’ve been quite actively working on since their first show in March 2021. Here the band collate a 12-track garage-punk opus, their five distinct voices simultaneously pulling songs in different directions while an undeniable chemistry reveals a combined hive mind ascending on a clear group mission… to rock. If you didn’t have the Delivery phenomenon yet, you’re about to.

Marking the beginning of a victory lap for Delivery, the album rounds out a sprint of unrelenting live shows, impressive support slots and two stellar 7”s, all within a tidy 18 months. ‘Forever Giving Handshakes’ is a statement from Delivery and one of the strongest Australian punk debut albums of the past decade.

Confined to quarters during the longest lockdown in the world, a couple – who happen to be musicians – have all the time in the world and nowhere to go. Both Bec and James have been part of Melbourne’s music scene for years, with Bec involved in the punk community while James played in a string of garage/pop acts. Although they’ve been a couple for a while, they’ve never actually made music together. As it turns out, the city’s cautious approach to a global pandemic was the catalyst for Delivery – one of the most brilliant  and forceful rock’n’roll bands to emerge from the southern hemisphere in years.  

Have a listen to what they’ve been up to recently and still, as far as I know, on tour. In the meantime, get acquainted if you aren’t already.