Keith Christmas recorded his first album 'Stimulus' back in 1969 when he also played the acoustic guitar on David Bowie's first album 'Space Oddity' and appeared at the first Glastonbury Festival.
Throughout the seventies he recorded four more albums 'Fable of the Wings', 'Pigmy', Brighter Day' and 'Stories From the Human Zoo' while touring with and supporting acts like The Who, King Crimson, Ten Years After, Frank Zappa and Roxy Music.
He stopped playing through the 80's but formed the blues band 'Weatherman' in 1991 with some friends and an album of the same name was released in 1992.
In 1996 he suddenly started to write a different kind of acoustic material which almost immediately led to the release of a new album 'Love Beyond Deals' on HTD records.
In January 2003 Keith released an instrumental CD, ‘Acoustica’. It got excellent worldwide reviews - ‘absolutely brilliant’, ‘this is a quite exceptional piece of work’, ‘lavish and overwhelming’, ‘a beautiful album’, and the opening track was used on the BBC documentary 'Hidden Gardens'.
He has continued writing since then and has been described by a major festival promoter as 'a songwriter at the peak of his powers'.
In 2006 he completed his first ever solo CD called 'Light of the Dawn'. He magazine fRoots reviewed it “…the sound is fantastic and grabs the attention: the confident, gutsy guitar, picked or slide, has immediacy and intimacy in equal measure; and Christmas's urgent, hoarse vocals can't help but involve the listener in the moods and stories of the songs…a fine timeless album”
We're playing on Wednesday 11th November at The Mothers' Ruin, St Nicholas Market, Bristol soon after 8pm (then another 2 great bands) It's a free gig, and cheap at half the price. Why not come along and sample the Poundshop Life?
Hi Keith - thanks for picking up my friend request here and all the best for the future. You're an excellent vintage; quality tells and lasts :) cheers, James
Oh how wonderful that song "Words that will never be Spoken" and how wonderfully you sing it. My eyes are filled with tears. How can you be better known? I wish it could be
Hi Keith - seems like only yesterday that I first saw you play, but adding it up it's probably 37 years of yesterdays. Good to hear that you're sounding better that ever, voice unaffected by all that education stuff inbetween.
Just to confirm that there is life after Speedwell, check out Poundshop Life.
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