Since starting up Delatronics as Roland’s premier service centre, we have had some famous acts/people approach us for help on their Roland products – Mostly we end up dealing with the band’s technician or roadie, but quite often the artists themselves approach us (depends on how big they are!). Here’s the list of famous Delatronics clients so far:

Astrid – Astrid Williamson herself (very talented!) came in when with Goya Dress with a Juno 106 (1998)
Athlete - Carey Willetts, bass player in th band, brought an RE-201 and 501 in for repair - Very nice chap (FEB 2008)

Bluetones – Their tech came in with the bands Roland VK-7 organ (end of 2000)
Jeff Beck - I have repaired an RE-201 and a 501 for him (APR 2004)
Chris de Burgh – His tech came in with two MC-500 sequencers used for lighting rig control (1999)
Captain Sensible – Ray Burns himself has visited my premises several times with a VS-1680, RE-201 and some Wah pedals: Thanks for the signed photo and tape! (last in Jan 2001).
Nenah Cherry – Her guitarist came in with a Boss SE-70 (over here during a tour in 1998)
Nigel Clark – Nigel ex Dodgy turned up himself with a VS-880, and I recognised him at once (2000)
Cockney Rebel – James Lascelles sent in a damaged VK-8M whilst on tour in Holland (2005)
Cranes – Jim Shaw one of the two writers and instrumentalist, visited us with his VS-2480 on which he recorded two albums (2007)
Crazy Town – New American Rap group brought in their VSR-880 wile on tour here (2001)
Culture Club – A session guitarist performing with them brought in a GT-5 and a signed picture of George! (2000)
Death In Vegas – Serviced two RE-201 space echos for them (2003)
Delays – Serviced three hard working MC-505s for them, and met Aaron from the band (2004)
Duran Duran - Fixed one of John Taylor's three Jupiter 8s ready for the current tour (2009)

Echo And The Bunnymen – The guitarist came in with a ME-10 just before they released their come back single “I Want It Now” (1999)
Eternal – They were doing some recording and sent their guitarist in with his GX-700 (1998)
Hugh Padgham – Producer of Sting, Phil Collins and Bowie amongst others with Space Echos (2004)
Human League – Their studio engineer of sixteen years, sent in their JD-800. I was glad to receive this unit as I was a big fan of the band in the early eighties, and got inspiration for a lot of my early songs. They also have a vast amount of early Roland analogue equipment (2002).
Hurricane No1 – One of the band members came in with a faulty SRV-330 effects unit just before their first single was released (1997)
Justine Frischmann – Lead singer with Elastica sent her MC-505 in for repair, have spoken with her many times on the phone, she uses the machine for ideas on the road (2001) Kaiser Chiefs – Nick Baines AKA ‘Peanut’, sent in three SH-101’s for repair, he was my customer before KC (2006)
Klaxons – Serviced a couple of old Boss products CE-1 and an RPS-10. (Aug 2007)
Led Zepplin – Repaired a small fault to their SPD-s pad (AUG 2005)
Michael Jackson – On tour at Wembley had one of his three JD-800 break down, his management organised this repair (1998)
Leee John – Lead singer with 80s group Imagination lives 2 miles down the Road, he sent his mate in with a DR-202 drum machine (2000)
Jethro Tull – Andy Giddings, keyboard player with Jethro Tull is a regular customer at Delatronics, we keep his D-70s up and running.
Just Jinger – Unknown in this country, but massive everywhere else (no1 hit singles in their home country South Africa). I repaired the lead singers VS-840 and he gave me the bands latest album – It’s superb! It was only after some research that I discovered just how big the band are!
Justine Frischman – The lead singer with Elastica set me her very corrupted MC-505 that she uses for ideas (2001)
Killers – They sent in a VS-880 - They have a chart album and support Franz Ferdinand on tour (2004)
Marillion – Sent in two Space echo’s, a RE-201 and SRE-555 – Yes they are still performing without their old singer “Fish” (2002).
Mark King – Lead singer and Bassist in level 42 sent in his studios JV-1080 (1999)
Crispin Mills – Ex singer of Coola Shaker now with ‘Pi’ has had a couple of space echoes repaired here (2000)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Nik Cosby sent in an RE-501 (2004)
Ozzy Osbourne – His keyboard player came in with a S-760 sampler (1987)
Pulp – Have serviced all three of their Space echoes (2001/2002)
Prodigy – I have serviced three of the bands four W-30 sampling workstations (1998)
Radiohead – Their tour manager brought in a couple of space echoes (2000)
Roxy Music – Serviced RE-201 Space echo for Andy McKay, the Sax player (2001)
Royksopp – Serviced all their PAD-8s and PAD-80s for their recent tour from the “Melody AM” Album (2003)
John Ratcliffe – He was the producer of the excellent A Ha (thanks for the rare photo!), still out there with his VS-1680 (2000)
Uli Jon Roth – The very talented rock guitarist from the Scorpions, sent in his RE-301 and RE-501 for repair and service (2004)
Leo Sayer – Looked after his keyboard players gear – Pete Stone who is a former Roland colleague (1999)
Suede – Delbt with their manager and serviced their much loved SE-70, also sold them my SE-50 (1997)
Specials - Repaired a Jupiter 8 and Juno 60 for them (Jan 2010)

Stereo MCs - Their tech guy brought in two VP-330 vocoder keyboards and an SDE-1000 – They’re obviously fans of retro gear. And they’re still touring. (2002)
Stranglers – Their tec guy sent a JD-800 in for a bit of TLC (October 2003)
Joe Strummer – Ex ‘The Clash’, his tech brought in a JC-120, which Joe had kicked the knobs off! (2000)
Midge Ure – His tech brought in the bands MKS 80 (1996)
Steve Vai – I was called out to Shepherd’s Bush Empire to fix his JD-800 before the gig, I met him and also Joe Satriani and Brian May in the hospitality suite that day (1999)
Andy Watts – Ex drummer in ‘The Seahorses’ with a VS-880EX – He signed my ‘Do It Yourself’ album (2000)