It’s A Sign

In the early 80s, keyboard players William Gilmour and Martin Russell left The Enid to form Craft. Despite the promise of good things following the release of their self-titled album in ’84, the band disappeared almost as quickly as they appeared. Five decades on, the long out-of-print Craft has been expanded and reissued as First Signs [Definitive Edition], and Prog catches up with the pair to find out more.

Jerry Ewing

“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…

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