THE band made up of college friends from Northwich and Knutsford who were lauded by The Charlatans singer Tim Burgess at last year’s North by Northwich festival are about to launch their new single.

Indie four-piece Delights, who finish their latest UK tour in May, release Daydream next Friday, April 19, almost a year after their auspicious gig at the Gladstone Club.

In that time Ben Kirkland, Leo Willis, Adam Maxwell and Ben Squires have performed at the Wheels and Fins festival, heard their tunes played on BBC Introducing Manchester, and toured the UK playing in cities such as Liverpool, London, Edinburgh and Sheffield.

Having just played their first sold out gig at Gullivers in Manchester, and with a set booked in for this year’s Kendal Calling it’s set to be another busy year for the band who are constantly working on new material.

Ben Squires, guitarist, said: “It’s been a pretty amazing year to be honest. So much has come out of that chance meeting.

“We’ve done a few festivals and a couple of tours, we’ve got some studio time booked at Viaduct Rehearsal Studios and Kendal Calling coming up, there’s just loads going on."

One of their recent highlights was playing at Manchester’s Band on the Wall – the first gig of their latest tour.

Ben said: “We were really buzzing to be involved in it. It was put on by Amazing Radio and Shell Zenner, who is a DJ for BBC Introducing Manchester. It was a good way new for people to hear us play because it was a free gig – it was a really good night.

"It was also the first time we sold out own merchandise and that went really well."

With plans to keep on writing news songs and play live as much as possible, the band are now hoping that they might be able to find a slot in the line-up for the forthcoming Dead Dead Good festival which takes place in venues across Northwich next month.

Ben added: “It coincides with when we finish this latest tour so it would be brilliant if we could round it off with a gig in our home town.”

For more information on the bands current tour and single release visit facebook.com/delightsband