Keats (band)
| Keats | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | skirt |
| founding | 1983 |
| resolution | 1984 |
| Last occupation | |
| Ian Bairnson | |
| Peter Bardens | |
| Colin Blunstone | |
| Stuart Elliott | |
| David Paton | |
Keats was a British band project that was launched in 1983 and was largely based on the initiative of Eric Woolfson , the co-founder of The Alan Parsons Project . Woolfson wanted to give the longtime accompanying musicians the opportunity to step out of the shadow of the project makers (himself and Alan Parsons ) and develop their own band profile.
Members of Keats were David Paton, Ian Bairnson, Stuart Elliott and the singer Colin Blunstone, who can be heard on several Project records, formerly with the Zombies . It was also Blunstone who introduced keyboardist Peter Bardens (of the Camel group ) as the fifth member.
The music style was very much based on the albums by Alan Parsons Project, but the songs, which had been written entirely by the band themselves, were a bit more straightforward and mostly rock more. When it came time to come up with a name for the group (and the album), they simply chose the name of the London pub where some of the band members met every night after their studio work: Keats . The name therefore does not go back directly to the English poet John Keats . The producer and sound engineer of the first and only record was - not surprisingly - Alan Parsons. As a guest musician, the keyboarder and saxophonist Richard Cottle was brought in as another project musician.
Tensions within the band between Paton, Bairnson and Elliott on the one hand and Blunstone and Bardens on the other hand, as well as the commercial failure led to the rapid end of Keats in 1984 .
Discography
single
- Turn your heart around (1984)
album
- Keats (1984; re-released 1996, with a bonus track and an interview with Ian Bairnson and Alan Parsons on the history of Keats )