Tim Keegan

Tim Keegan is an acclaimed singer and songwriter, best known as front man of turn-of-the-century Bella Union and BBC 6 Music darlings, Departure Lounge, who reunited in 2019 for UK shows to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their debut album and ended up recording an LP of brand new material in four days.

Transmeridian came out on Violette Records in March 2021, 18 years after their previous long player, Too Late To Die Young. The single, Australia, featured special guest Peter Buck from R.E.M. on Rickenbacker 12-string guitar. A brand new DL album is currently in the pipeline.

During a career spanning three decades, alongside his own musical projects, Tim has been a regular accompanist of Robyn Hitchcock (appearing on several albums and in Jonathan Demme's Storefront Hitchcock film) and has worked with many others including Kid Loco (appearing on three albums including 2019’s The Rare Birds), Josh Rouse, Emilie Simon, Tahiti 80 and The Blue Aeroplanes, while living variously in the UK, Nashville and Paris. Paul Heaton has called him “one of the best songwriters we’ve got”.

Four of Tim’s songs from the 1990s featured in the 2021 film, The Space Between, directed by Rachel Winter and starring Kelsey Grammer.

The third Tim Keegan solo album will be out in 2025, following on from The Long Game (2015) and Foreign Domestic (2007).

Tim lives in Worthing, on the south coast of England, where he fronts a long-running live music residency at seafront bar, The Beach House.