
Looking forward to Robert's 80th birthday with a new album and a tour in 2027.

The Enid has created a school of intelligent, powerful and romantic music unique to them, free from the constraints of template rock/pop where rhythm, harmony and melody are invariably dictated by the traditions, prejudices and limitations associated with style.
Says founder Robert John Godfrey: “I did not expect to still be alive, but here I am!”
Not since 1980 has The Enid had two lead guitarists.

Jason Ducker - Guitarist since 2002
Jason first played with The Enid in 2003 at The London Astoria and became the band’s permanent guitarist in 2007. He has appeared on every album and live performance since.
Jason turned 40 last year and is the band's longest-serving guitarist.

Alfredo Randazzo - Guitarist since 2023

Karl Thompson - Drums and Percussion since 2020

Tim Harries - Bass and Keyboards since 2023
Tim lives in Northampton. He studied music at the University of York, graduating in 1981 before studying double bass with Tom Martin at the Guildhall School of Music.
He was a member of Bill Bruford's Earthworks from 1989 to 1993.
Tim was a member of the folk-rock band Steeleye Span from 1989 to 2001. He contributed bass, keyboards, vocals, and later guitar after the return of long-time bassist Rick Kemp.
Since leaving Steeleye Span, he has worked as a session musician for Brian Eno, Katie Melua, Film Composers David Holmes and Stephen Warbeck, and writer Alan Moore, on the audio CD version of Moore's comic book novel Angel Passage (2001), among others.
He can be heard on the soundtracks of films including Heart (1999), Quills (2000) and Perrier's Bounty (2009).

Robert John Godfrey - Pensioner
Robert John Godfrey, pianist, composer and philosopher was born at Leeds Abbey Farm on the Leeds Castle Estate in Kent, England on the 30th of July 1947. His father was Lt John Godfrey, a war hero who won the Military Cross during WW2 in Burma. His mother was Patricia Boucher whose father Richard farmed the Leeds Castle estate. Godfrey was educated at Finchden Manor in Tenterden, which was described by its founder George Lyward as a "therapeutic community for intelligent adolescents"; other alumni of which include Alexis Korner and Tom Robinson.
Godfrey's entry into the world of music came late. He didn't start playing the piano until he was thirteen years old. A freakish and hitherto undiscovered talent quickly emerged and by the age of sixteen, he was able to play the Brahms Bb concerto well enough to give a public performance with an amateur orchestra. In 1965 he entered the Royal College of Music, where he studied under concert pianist Malcolm Binns. During his college years he became part of the swinging London "gay set" which included notables pop record producer Kit Lambert , pianist and teacher, Peter Feuchtwanger, Decca classical music producer Peter Wadland and composers Michael Tippett, Richard Rodney Bennett and Hans Werner Henze.
However, life as a concert pianist was not to be. In 1969, an opportunity to work with Norman Smith at Abbey Rd who was producing both Pink Floyd and Barclay James Harvest, the band with whom Godfrey would work for the next three years. His work with Barclay James Harvest made him one of the founding fathers of the progressive rock music genre and set the scene for his future life. In 1974, together with friends he founded the progressive art rock band, The Enid and has remained at the centre of the band's activities for fifty years.