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Tim Keegan
Biography Tim Keegan
Tim Keegan
is an internationally acclaimed singer and songwriter, who has spent a quarter of a century wandering the scenic back roads of the western world’s underground pop scene. Unmistakably English, but better known in France and the US, Keegan is a master craftsman of the thoughtful pop song.
He cites his key influences as the holy trinity of Bob Dylan, Lou Reed and Leonard Cohen, but as much missed The Word magazine noted, “(Keegan) radiates a chipper Englishness that informs even the most doleful of these bitter-sweet pop songs with a quiet optimism.” Like most of us, he is an unashamed fan of the music he grew up loving: Elvis, Johnny Cash and Buddy Holly, REM and the Jazz Butcher, Nick Drake and Jonathan Richman.
In the UK Tim is perhaps best known as frontman of the acclaimed 4-piece, Departure Lounge, folktronic pioneers and darlings of the fledgling Bella Union label in the early 2000's ("casebook studies in flawless songwriting" according to the NME, “some of the most wonderful, eclectic, optimistic pop music being created at the moment", said the Sunday Times, who made their debut Out Of Here Album of the Week). DL’s Kid Loco-produced follow-up, Too Late to Die Young, was hailed as "a top to bottom masterwork" by influential US music magazine, Magnet, and became BBC 6 Music's first ever Album of the Week.
Tim Keegan has been a regular accompanist of Robyn Hitchcock (appearing on several albums and in Jonathan Demme's Storefront Hitchcock film) and has worked with numerous others over the past 20-odd years including Kid Loco, Josh Rouse, Tahiti 80, Saint Etienne and The Blue Aeroplanes, while living variously in the UK, Nashville and Paris.
He now lives with his wife and children in Worthing, a seaside town in West Sussex on England’s south coast, where for the past ten years he hosted a monthly live residency at a seafront bar, The Beach House.
Keegan has released three full length solo albums since his 2007 debut ‘Foreign Domestic’. His latest album ‘Vide Grenier’ arrives on streaming services October 2026.
