Biography
Equally at home in the recording studio or on festival stages around the world, Starlite & Campbell are curious souls, constantly asking questions and exploring new sounds, ideas and thoughts. Quintessentially the ‘sound’ of their music is based around a very British playing, recording and production aesthetic.
Travelling poets, detectives and observers, voracious readers and lovers of inspirational situations and spontaneous happenings with authentic people. Writing stories in song where the lyric has meaning. To document, inform and arouse curiosity - served on a bed of musical emotion.
PHASE TWO: 2017 - 2019
Album: ‘Blueberry Pie’ | Nominated for Best Album - European Blues Awards
PHASE THREE: 2019 - 2022
Albums: The Language of Curiosity’, ‘Starlite Campbell Band Live!’
Winner - Best Original Band - GSMC Awards, 2022
Starlite & Campbell fly in the face of disposable music, writing, recording, engineering, playing and producing all their work. All music is released on their independent label Supertone Records.
The couple tour with their two labradors Hummock and Bobby in the ‘Van of Rock’. They have moved seven times in the past nine years and finally found their spiritual home in Portugal. All their music is mastered by Jon Astley of Close to the Edge, England who has worked with The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, John Mayall, Debby Harry and many more.
SINGLES 2020 - 2022
Starlite Campbell Band released four singles; Stone Cold Crazy, Lay It Out On Me, Gaslight and Take Time To Grow Old from their second studio album - The Language of Curiosity. In a zeitgeist moment during the first lockdown, Suzy & Simon released their version of a cover of the Blind Faith classic ‘Can’t Find My Way Home’ which received fantastic feedback from the media including BBC 6 Music, BBC Radio 2 amongst other international radio. A Whiter Shade of Pale, Live - featuring Josh Phillips from Procol Harum was released as a single in June 2022.
“This was the real deal, scintillating stuff… Simon Campbell and Suzy Starlite are mad for the music, and mad for each other – and their enthusiasm is infectious. And then – and then, folks – they close out with ‘Walkin’ Out The Door’, the opening track from Blueberry Pie. And this slice of mid-Sixties style soulful blues, with some wah-wah atmospherics, gradually morphs into Led Feckin’ Zeppelin, the riff tipping the hat to the likes of ‘How Many More Times’ while Starlite channels John Paul Jones with an increasingly mountainous bass line. And Campbell goes into mad axeman mode, conjuring up a howling guitar interlude with the aid of an old-fashioned echoplex box of tricks – real analogue tape, boys and girls – ahead of an echo-laden solo. Greta Van Fleet eat your juvenile hearts out.” - Iain Cameron — Blues Enthused, UK
PHASE FOUR - JULY 2022 ONWARDS
Starlite & Campbell are spending the Summer in Portugal trying to remember how to live a good and meaningful life. They are learning Portuguese, reading inspirational books, hanging out in art galleries and local bars, writing songs and exploring new musical ideas and thoughts for their next creative project…
Website: Starlite Cambell Band
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