Visionaries, megalomaniacs, chancers, charlatans, call them what you like, but it was The Delgados who started this whole thing and continue to hang in there like a Jack Russell on a cumberland link. The Delgados formed late in 1993 and by the middle of 1994, while they were starting to earn plaudits as a band, they hatched a plot that would materialise into Chemikal Underground.

Paul Savage, Emma Pollock, Stewart Henderson and Alun Woodward were friends from school and university who, having formed The Delgados, would soon find themselves at the forefront of a Glasgow music scene in the first throes of an overdue rebirth. With The Delgados, the four friends would tour the world and release six critically acclaimed albums before amicably disbanding - safe in the knowledge that they never became shit (which is a rare feat nowadays).

They continue to run Chemikal Underground - a label considered by many to be one of the most successful labels to have ever emerged from Scotland...