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The Enid are a British progressive rock band founded in 1973 by former Barclay James Harvest collaborator Robert John Godfrey, who is the sole founding member still present in the band's lineup. Other core members have included founding guitarists Steve Stewart and Francis Lickerish, and longstanding drummer Dave Storey. The current lineup consists of Godfrey, Storey, guitarists Max Read and Jason Ducker, bassist Dominic Tofield and vocalist Joe Payne. The Enid's membership has since undergone several changes, always with Godfrey at the helm. Godfrey has diabetes, and has also described bouts of depression associated with periods of writer's block.〔("DPRP's Menno von Brucken Fock speaks with Robert John Godfrey (The Enid) on 14th April 2010 at The Lodge Studio in Northampton" ), Dutch Progressive Rock Page.〕 The band are currently recording and touring regularly. ==History== The Enid began recording at about the same time as punk rock burst upon the music scene. Godfrey has said that he always regarded The Enid's ironic takes on classical music as being just as anarchic as anything by the Sex Pistols, but this did not translate into either musical or commercial recognition, despite their work being played frequently by Tommy Vance on BBC Radio One's ''Friday Rock Show''.〔(Max Read, Chronology ), The Enid website.〕〔 Early albums did not include any lyrics due to the suicide of founding vocalist Peter Roberts on New Year's Day 1975, during the recording sessions for the band's debut album "In the Region of the Summer Stars". The band considered Roberts' to be irreplaceable at that time, and had opted not to include any vocals on their material. (Nigel Camilleri, "The Enid (Part 2 1980-2000)" ), Forgotten Sons - DPRP.〕 In 1981, the band played most of the music for Kim Wilde's self-titled debut album. The band's fifth album, ''Something Wicked This Way Comes'', released in 1983, was the first Enid album to feature lyrics, which were written by then-drummer Chris North and sung in a mock-operatic style by Godfrey. The release was a concept album dealing with the threat of nuclear warfare and the various ways in which people respond to it. The Enid released no full-length albums between 1997 and 2010, when ''Journey's End'' was released, although 2009's ''Arise and Shine'' featured newly remixed and partly re-recorded tracks from previous albums plus one preview of a ''Journey's End'' track. In June 2013, it was revealed that the band's sole-remaining founding member Robert John Godfrey had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease, and that as a result he will retire from the band in the near future. However, the band intends to continue, with Godfrey's consent, following his departure. Keyboardist William Gilmour founded a new band, Craft, after leaving The Enid, along with Grant McKay Gilmour and Martin Russell of Afro Celt Sound System. The band produced a self-titled mini-album in 1984 featuring Enid-style instrumentals based on six signs of the zodiac: "Aries", "Taurus", "Gemini", "Cancer", "Leo", and "Virgo". The album was released on CD on the American label Kinetic Discs in 1992. The CD added two short bonus tracks, "Branislana" and "And So to Sleep", which were, if anything, even more heavily influenced by The Enid. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Enid」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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