Prog

It’s A Sign

“I’d completely dried up and I couldn’t do anything musical so I did these drawings of zodiac signs. When I came back to Ireland, my dad asked: ‘Why don’t you form a band?’”
William Gilmour

“I do wish I’d kept as much hair as Martin…” Former Enid keyboard player William Gilmour smiles wistfully from Prog’s computer screen and motions towards a thinning scalp, before breaking into a chuckle. Alongside him on screen is fellow former Enid keyboardist and bassist Martin Russell who, at 65 years old, sports a luxuriant thatch that would be the envy of a man half his age, let alone the 69-year-old Gilmour.

It’s been a while since either man faced the music press, but neither seem particularly phased. The ebullient Russell talks and talks. And then talks some more. The more mild-manned Gilmour patiently awaits his turn,

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