Slow Walk

I’d like to say it was something cool like a nuclear explosion or a radioactive spider that brought Slow Walk about but in fact it was a group of youths on Tufnell Park Road. One day as Keith was walking to the station, busily texting away, the afore mentioned group started shouting after him. “Hey you…the geeky one with the glasses and the phone…” As he continued to ignore the group, they changed their tactics, shouting… ”Yo daddy cool…Slow Walk!” He kept his head down and continued about his business and the following day told his close friend and colleague, Bean the story and Slow Walk was born. He always said one day, he would play Glastonbury, but he didn’t expect to be playing his first gig there. But hey that’s how it happened, in an open mic tent in 2007. I’d like to say he was incredible and went down to rapturous applause and got signed on the spot. I sure would like to say that. About a year later, something snapped and he began rehearsing furiously. A month later he was out at every open mic he could find. Sooner after he was gigging at every venue he could find. With 2 of his closest singer songwriter friends he took on and completed the quintuple, 5 open mics in one day but still that wasn’t enough. Though he could play on his own he just didn’t want to. Sometimes it got lonely up there and he figured 5 could make a better sound than one. The right 5 that is. So he formed a team of both the finest musicians and his closest friends. The Bennett brothers, Phileas Phunk, pretty much a human drum machine and Bean, the funkiest bass bending and guitar playing mo fo around. Next he enlisted the classically trained fingers of Lord Peter Whimsy and finally his old friend and multi skilled collaborator Kitch on lead guitar. They started playing gigs, starting with The Underbelly and The Monto Water Rats and will soon be heading in to the studio.