Enid Live Something Wicked This Way Comes

[millsy2010]

What occurs to me is why even bother categorising this music? It's hardly prog-rock; this is more like film/classical music. Perhaps if the idiots who so readily dismiss anything of substance were to drop their own prejudices for a moment, they might actually see things in a different light. After all, if I myself can enjoy this music and then listen to a Siouxsie and The Banshees album, why can't it work the other way round?

[STEViEmando]

Lookin' forward to seein' them in September at Weyfest in Surrey UK. I'm playin' the second stage in the day, they're on later in the evenin' on the mainstage so I'm not gonna miss them. Saw them last in the early eighties at Vines Cross Festival.

[jsyjohn]

@STEViEmando Saw them at High Voltage, brilliant. Will be at Weyfest as well, looking forward to it.

[stevemetaloldie]

@STEViEmando we'll be there - can't wait :)

[eddietwang]

@whiterobin thanks for your support my friend..l am the lone voice of reason on this godforsaken web site..sorry must go now i,ve upset another american!..(fast bass fishing boat)

[howardcarter2010]

What a strange, but wonderful, bunch The Enid are, in all their incarnations ... I do like their music.

[auroristony48]

What happened to Steven Stewart anyone??

[malthuswasright]

Saw them in Gloucester on 17th. Great set- the new album, plus some classics. A right good night out.

[Marco33185]

Leur musique repose sur de superbes thèmes souvent grandioses et compositions rock teintées de planant et de guitares floydienne, avec d'amples mouvements orchestraux, parfaitement construits et écrits et une dimension classique avec ses synthétiseurs restituant les sections de cordes, les instruments à vent et autres formules typiquement classiques.

[fox070967]

I am in this video, went the the Gig the nigh before and slept in one of the barns for the night, One of my favourite gigs ever.

[animalthebiker]

Hey The Enid are still around they are in Southampton on the 22 Sept !!!

[MrFiendmummy]

This*song* is a book..It's by Ray Bradbury

[Shanniquitie]

@MrFiendmummy the title of bradbury's book is a line from shakespeare, is a medieval charm. so yeah. lol

[MrFiendmummy]

@Shanniquitie Cool/ Thankie :P

[skiingrhino]

nicely done

[newsy8]

Ahhh....musicians are so beautiful. If I could make sounds like that I'd self-implode.. or self explode or something like that. :) Truly incredibly mindblowing. If you are stressed out, smoke a big fattie,and take a long hot bath while listening to THIS and you will be good to go fight the dragons some more!

btw I graduated high school in 1973! boy was I clueless LOL

[fox070967]

I think thatthis is Fand, In fact I know it was, I was there. The Farm is surrounded by beautiful countryside. The village nearby is very pretty.

[TheNanu1]

I must be losing my mind cos I could have sworn this track had singing in it.

[xenaphon1]

Nice dungarees!

[antwoolway]

That's not SWTWC, it's Fand...

[v6200man]

Always my favourite band down the years. Keep it going RJG

[SteveWalker56]

Sounds like an excerpt from Fand, an incredible creation by the band which has lived on long beyond the original line up and deservedly so.

The Enid in their new format are very much alive and kicking as last weeks concert at Bush Hall proved.

There was no Fand, but Sheets of Blue, Chaldean Crossing, Judgement and Dark Hydraulic were among the numbers performed to a superb standard.

RJG keep composing please and playing live whenever you can!

[Magnitkas]

The Enid... yes one of the most interesting and uniquely different bands of my younger days... Robert if you are still there... so I am - you were just wonderful - a real inspiration...

[slvrhnd]

@Magnitkas He is, just saw them in concert, NEARfest in Bethlehem, PA

[cosmicjazzer]

@Magnitkas Robert is certainly still here and, in fact, the Enid have just released a new album and are in the midst of a tour. Check out their site!

[skankybill]

@Magnitkas Roberts very much alive and kicking, The Enid are back on the road. New lineup ,new material and ofcourse the Classics! Saw play in Falmouth, 5th March 2011. Just as good as ever!!

[thedot44]

Great band in their day.  By the way 'MixRaceBritandBNP', haven't you been 'reclassified' by the BNP as 'racial foreigner (mixed race)' recently? I think so.

[UneasyMonkey]

Holy shit that is one crazy/awesome guitar

[Gaskin2000]

One of the most under rated bands on the planet. It was my pleasure to know them.

[hostroute]

Robert Godfrey is a great musician and I like his records with The Enid but I find it very hard to fotgive him for the court case against Barclay James Harvest, especially the effect it had on Woolly Wolstenholme, who by that time was out of the music business.

[MixRaceBritAndBNP]

Dominion ? was that the fairwell to Steven Stuart gig you were at

[pressgangers]

Pomposity in the largest form, Its The Enid

Only times i ever saw them was under a hail of piss filled bottles at Reading Festival. Or the one time at the Dominion theater in London where i fell asleep,

[eddietwang]

hey baby..your anti " pomp rock "propaganda is realy bumming me out!!..ok,l know its pompous,elietest crap that only appeals to university lecturers ..(yes l know l cant spell)..and the feeble minded..but what in the name of god is joan jetts ugly sister playing????...looks like a sinclair c5 with more charisma and a lot more tone..

[detheridge1951]

It's a Roland guitar synth, and your comments on the music show that you've totally missed the point.

[eddietwang]

l learned early on that you should try to experience everything that life has to offer just once...apart from 1..morris dancing..2..incest..3..trying to reason with middle aged men who still live with their elderly parents and play "dungeons and dragons" with their freind nevil..le every week..the enid have created some wonderful music and l was being ironic to pressganger..now get back to mummys you loser!

[detheridge1951]

Ah, so the usual get out clause for being a prick is that you're being ironic.

I must remember that one for the future.

[eddietwang]

what are you getting pissed off about crispin?..if you want everyone to express the same views as yourself 1. go to church..2..join a "enid" fan club..3.. join your local branch of the conservative club and play contact bridge with mummie every wednesday night...but if you open yourself up on youtube expect to have interaction with people with differing views to your own....now go watch harry potter.."crispin the fascist"...you tire me.

[eddietwang]

keep the faith..even when you are swamped by librarians!!

[MixRaceBritAndBNP]

Yup your dead right whiterobin, Robert did and still dose suffer from depression, he also has writers block sometimes that makes the depression more the worse. I've known Robert for many years, i met Robert and the boys way back in the late 70's at Reading festival and spent quite a lot of time at Claret Hall. He is quite ill now and also suffers from diabitis

[MixRaceBritAndBNP]

I'm still of the opinion that the Live Hamersmith tape from Salome tour was the best, i think it has the very best of The Enid although the last gig featuring Steve Stewart on the Seed & The Sower tour was very emotional for all us Enid fans and Stand members. I still think the freebee Hamersmith tape from Salome tour should now be re masterd and released as an album, come on Robert sort it mate lmsao

[MixRaceBritAndBNP]

Yup this is Fand and not something wicked this way comes... At bedtime when the light goes out once more, something wicked this way comes creeping soft acoss the floor, dont look now, it might be there, oh don't look now it's over there somewhere, total class. I am so proud to say i know Robert,Steve Stewart quite well, wen't to Claret Hall Farm in many times, fucking guard geese. Always enjoyed the Hammersmith gigs, seed and the sower rocks

[moshimoshi333]

WOW!!.. Awesome video, thanks for posting. Who are the guys on Drums and Perc?

[briligplace]

I must have seen the Enid sereval times at the Folkestobe Leas Cliff Hall in the late 1970's - strange but always interesting. I seem to recall they would finsh with Jerusalem - or as it Land of Hope and Glory/.

[silmarillionsstart]

I loved the albums too but you couldn't beat the live experience. I always felt that there was an element of humour in Robert's rants and, in all fairness, you couldn't blame his cynicism of "the machine" (ie the music business as described by Pink Floyd)given his own experience (as understood from his perspective only). Whichever way you look at it, The Enid were always great entertainment at every level!

[silmarillionsstart]

Fair comment!

[mikeplusplus]

There's an Enid group on facebook

[mikeplusplus]

Er, this piece is Fand, not SWTWC. Thanks for posting it though!

[silmarillionsstart]

I was always a huge Enid fan and have tremendous respect for Robert John Godfrey who deserves so much more recognition than he has ever had. I remember going to their studio in Suffolk with Marillion to record a demo and was delighted to hear that Capdown, a punk ska band from milton keynes had recorded a few tracks with them at their new studio, probably about 20 years later!Good to know that their still going strong.