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Starlite Campbell Band
INTERVIEW
N
ice to meet you Suzy and Simon, the Star-
lite Campbell Band! We thank you very
much for this interview for our Blues
community in Argentina. It’s a great
opportunity to know more about you and your work.
MS: For the readers who are hearing from you for the
first time, who are the Starlite Campbell Band?
We were both songwriters from the beginning and
(other than session work) have only performed in
‘original’ bands...
Starlite was mesmerised by the piano as a very young
child and when visiting any house would always seek
one out! She is self taught on piano, acoustic guitar
and mandolin and also played French horn at school,
only taking up the bass guitar three years ago.
She studied Media & Performance at Salford Univer-
sity and was a member of Folk Rock band Megiddo,
who released an EP in 1994 followed by an album
1996.
In 2012, Suzy formed the band ‘Starlite’ and drafted
in Simon on guitar. That year they played many gigs
featuring all original material including Mannifest, a
three day festival.
Simon started playing guitar when he was 16 having
listened to bands such as Atomic Rooster, 10 Years
After, Deep Purple, Wishbone Ash and Led Zeppelin.
I used to sit at home recording albums onto a reel to
reel tape machine and then halving the speed to slow
down the passages to make them easier to learn: no
YouTube then!
By 17 he was playing sessions at studios in Manches-
ter and formed his own heavy rock band Whitefire.
Five years after he started playing, a Producer came
to him and said “You are a killer blues guitar player”
- he couldn't believe it as he though his style was