Greig Francis "Greg" Gilbert (7 December 1976 – 30 September 2021) was a British musician, singer, songwriter, visual artist and poet.

Gilbert started his musical career as the frontman of a band named Corky, who eventually rebranded as Idoru and released the EP Safety in Numbers in 2001.

The other members of Delays are Greg's brother Aaron Gilbert (keyboards), Colin Fox (bass) and Rowly (drums and percussion).

In November 2004, Delays released the non-album single "Lost in a Melody" as a double A-side with Faded Seaside Glamour's opening track "Wanderlust".

[7] However, the project never materialised due to the fact that Aaron Gilbert lost the only copy of the disc, containing roughly 100 demos written by Greg during their Faded Seaside Glamour tour.

[8] The eventual second album You See Colours was released in March 2006 through Rough Trade Records and featured a more synth-driven and up-tempo sound.

This new direction was described by Delays as a natural progression, given that keyboardist Aaron joined the band halfway through the writing process of Faded Seaside Glamour.

Producer Trevor Horn provided additional arrangement and vocal overdub on the track, which was performed on Top of the Pops on 27 February 2006.

Horn would later cite the Delays track "Stay Where You Are" from Faded Seaside Glamour as the inspiration for the bass riff on "Bodies", which he produced for Robbie Williams.

[citation needed] On 5 May 2008, Delays released their third studio album Everything's the Rush through Fiction Records after having parted ways with Rough Trade.

Everything's the Rush, which was produced by Martin "Youth" Glover, featured more maximalist production than previous efforts and also incorporated orchestral elements.

[14] While Delays were on hiatus, Gilbert started his side project The Lunar Fields with ex-members of Liverpool's The Maybes and The Sums.

[22] Following his cancer diagnosis, Gilbert decided to move away from his signature biro miniature style due to its physically draining nature.

Eventually he met Gillian Clarke (the former National Poet of Wales) at a reading at The Brook in Southampton, who thought Gilbert’s work should be published due to the importance of documenting his journey with a life-threatening illness.

[citation needed] Clarke passed on some of Gilbert's work to Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy without him being aware of it.

He was told that he was genetically incompatible with the only free immunotherapy drug available on the National Health Service and that treatment options were limited.