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The captain was not fazed by this response and declared with a flourish, “Make it so!” before adding, “Twice
‘round the universe, on to Sector 1, then drop me off at planet Earth. And if you get a wriggle on, I should be
there in time for tea and crumpets.” And they did indeed make it so.

But anyway, Luke doesn't like to talk about his past -- or is it his future? I'm confused now. But I'm sure he'd
appreciate it if anybody reading this blocked it from their memories tout de suite and got on with reading
about him and his bandmates and listening to their mind-bendingly psychedelic debut album, the intriguing
and alluringly titled “Part 1.”

I spoke to Luke about the making of the album, a full review of which can be found here:
https://www.downthefrontmedia.com/…/music…/deltanaut-part-i/

Mal Whichelow: How did this debut album
m come about?

Luke Jennings: Writing ‘Part I’ started with
the very first jam with myself, Joe Milburn
on drums, and Niall Kingdom on bass. We
duct-taped a Zoom to the wall and played
for hours, just improvising and having a
blast. Two of the tracks on the album came
from that jam, ‘Jam ∞’ and ‘Horror Vacui,’
and they’ve barely changed since then. The
whole point of what we were doing in those
days was to please ourselves, and these
two-chord, repetitive songs were the
ultimate expression of really not caring
whether anyone would like what we were
doing or not.

MW: Were all the tracks developed from
jams?

LJ: We wrote ‘Skychurch’ a little while later
after our first show, and so far, it’s the only
song we’ve written having come up with the
idea for it before jamming. ‘Deltanaut’ and
‘The Sorceress’ came later and were written
in the same way as the first songs, with both
of them being written by accident when a
warm-up ended up being a 20-minute jam
that we managed to capture on the Zoom. I
don’t want to think about how many jams
have been lost to the ether when we started
playing without the Zoom recording. We
decided we should record the songs shortly
after we first played ‘The Sorceress’ live for
the first time.