Greg Gilbert of British band Delays dies at 44 from bowel cancer

Delays lead singer Greg Gilbert died Thursday afternoon after battling cancer for five years. He was 44.

His passing was announced and memorialized by his brother and bandmate Aaron Gilbert in a touching tribute on Twitter calling his brother his “oxygen.”

“Greg died surrounded in the endless love that us & all of you have given him on this journey, and we will never be able to fully express how much it meant to him (and all of us) to have you by our side lifting us up like a winged army,” he wrote.

Gilbert was a founding member of Delays which was formed in Southampton, England in 2001 with three other members: Rowly, Colin Fox and Dan Hall. Gilbert’s brother Aaron Gilbert joined the band later.

Greg Gilbert of the Delays died Sept. 30 after battling bowel cancer. He was 44.

“He is, & always will be in our melodies, & in all the breaths in between, he’s in every brush stroke and every piece of art that his mind gave light to,” Aaron Gilbert added to his tribute. “And these are the crutches I’ll try my best to lean on when it all feels too heavy.”

The band released four studio album with Gilbert as the lead singer: “Faded Seaside Glamour,” “You See Colours,” “Everything’s the Rush” and “Star Tiger Star Ariel.”

In 2016 Gilbert was diagnosed with bowel cancer. In a 2019 interview with “The Guardian” he discussed how he began to feel pain from the disease two years before he officially went to a medical professional.

“The only thing I would take is peppermint capsules I realise now that I was taking peppermint capsules to try to treat bowel cancer,” he said.

Other musicians and music professionals commented on Aaron Gilbert’s tribute remembering Greg Gilbert as “A man with a golden voice.”

“So unbelievably sad to hear about Greg’s passing today. A man with a golden voice and a rainbow pen who believed in magic until the very end,” the Twitter page for the English rock band Mystery Jets wrote.

“Beautiful words about a beautiful human being,” the band’s first record label, Rough Trade Records, wrote.

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