V FESTIVAL - DELAYS REVEAL SINGLE HOORAY IS ABOUT OCD

DELAYS REVEAL SINGLE HOORAY IS ABOUT OCD

Delays have explained that their hit single Hooray is actually about obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).

The joyous April release, which previewed the band's third album Everything's The Rush, is laden with happy strings and an energetic beat but is actually about a debilitating condition, frontman Greg Gilbert revealed.

Speaking to inthenews.co.uk at the V festival in Chelmsford, Gilbert explained that the condition had "really f****d up some relationships in my life".

"It was taking me about an hour and a half to go to bed every night, because of checking light switches etc, and if I felt like I hadn't done it properly, I'd have to come back and do it again," he continued.

"It got to the point where I'd have to say definitively: 'Done!' Mentally, I was putting a tag on everything."

He added: "I'd have this thing of looking at a light switch and seeing it was off, but not being convinced of it and like I say in the song 'I'm a garbage man tonight and I just don't believe my eyes'.

"I'd go outside and feel like I had to pick up the crisp packets outside my house before I could go to bed!"

The Southampton-based singer revealed he had studied Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) in a bid to combat his OCD but said he continues to have a "dosey-doe effect" with the disorder.

Delays' new single Keep it Simple is out now.