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NEW ALBUM STARLITE.ONE

AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW

 

BIOGRAPHY

Husband and wife Suzy Starlite and Simon Campbell are passionate about music as well as each other.

“Campbell’s vocals are flawless. Infectious hooks, meaty jams, and innovative song-writing stand front and center, making Starlite Campbell Band’s Live album an exhilarating listen.” - Phillip Smith

— Making a Scene magazine, USA

“Simon Campbell seems like a walking encyclopaedia of classic British axe heroes.  But overall his guitar sound is his own, and it's remarkable that he eschews effects pedals in search of it.  The Language Of Curiosity is about well-constructed songs, infectious melodies and worthwhile words!” - Iain Cameron, Editor

— Blues Enthused, UK

“Oh My, Oh My! What a cracker this one is. I listened to the whole album at one go... Then it hit me. This is what Cream sounded like before they became super-stars” - Ian K. McKenzie, Editor

— Blues in the South

Suzy Starlite and Simon Campbell by Sandra Ventura

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.

“Here is no sophomore slump with The Language of Curiosity. Starlite Campbell Band have stepped up their game, and their sound, taking their British blues/rock to a whole other level... A modern-day sonic boom!” - JD Nash, Editor

— American Blues Scene

“[Starlite Campbell Band ] feature one of the best session guitarists and producer/arrangers from the last forty years – Simon Campbell.” - Andy Snipper

— Music News, UK

“The Starlite Campbell Band issued not one but two highly entertaining, genre stretching live albums (blues rock husband & wife duo Suzy Starlite and Simon Campbell favour artistic adventure over one dimensionality.” - Ross Muir

— Fabrications HQ

Suzy Starlite and Simon Campbell at Flirting with the Blues Festival, NL. Photo by Peter Putters

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!’ and 'Starlite Campbell Band Live! 2'

Winner - Best Original Band - GSMC Awards, 2022

Simon Campbell at Supertone Records recording studio, Samora Correia, Portugal. Photo by Suzy Starlite

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.

Suzy Starlite & Simon Campbell - photo by Paul Husband

The couple tour with their two labradors Hummock and Bobby in the ‘Van of Rock’.

They have moved seven times in the past ten 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.

Gaslight - single artwork by photographer Stuart Bebb @OxfordCamera. Graphic design by Barry Kinder.

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. 

Third album 'Starlite Campbell Band Live!'  saw the single release of 'A Whiter Shade of Pale - Live!' featuring Josh Phillips (member of Procol Harum) on Hammond organ who toured with Starlite Campbell Band.

“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

Suzy Starlite and Simon Campbell. Photo by Sandra Ventura

PHASE FOUR - JULY 2022 ONWARDS

Starlite & Campbell announce they have started work on their exciting new multimedia project Starlite.One

They released a single, Our Lips Are Sealed in March 2023.

Starlite.One - where you are only limited by your imagination...

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THE BAND

SUZY STARLITE

Bass | Vocals | Piano | Synthesisers

Suzy is a songwriter, visual artist and multi-instrumentalist. 

She is featured as the 'Wonder Woman' bassist in the July 2022 edition of No Treble Magazine, USA with an hour long video interview and written article.

Suzy also won fastest woman at the Isle of Man TT Ramsey Sprint and is a New York Festivals radio award-winning broadcaster.

Read more on Suzy's website
Simon Campbell at the Met, Bury

SIMON CAMPBELL

Guitars | Vocals | Synthesisers | Music Producer

Simon is an artist, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, songwriter and music producer.

He was signed to Line Records (Polydor Germany) in the early '90s.

In 2011 Simon was nominated in the Best Vocalist category in the British Blues Awards.

He has also released albums with his bands 'Whitefire', 'The Disciples', 'Little Brother', two solo albums, is a world champion and Fellow of The Royal Geographical Society.

Read more on Simon's website

INTERVIEWS

THE SOUND CAFE: KEN WALLIS CHATS WITH SUZY STARLITE AND SIMON CAMPBELL OF THE STARLITE CAMPBELL BAND

The Sound Cafe: Ken Wallis Chats With Suzy Starlite and Simon Campbell Of The Starlite Campbell Band | Ken Wallis

The Starlite Campbell Band is a rockin’ English blues band that now calls Portugal home.  The husband-and-wife team of Simon…

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GIMME 5 -THE STARLITE CAMPBELL BAND TAKE US ON A MUSICAL ODYSSEY

Gimme 5 - The Starlite Campbell Band take us on a musical odyssey | Iain Cameron

As their recently released album, Starlite Campbell Band Live! demonstrates, Suzy Starlite and Simon Campbell can do a classic British rock sound with the…

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STARLITE CAMPBELL BAND - PLEASURE IN OSMOSIS

Interview by One-Man-Zine of Rock n Force

United in the city as well as on the stage, Suzy Starlite and Simon Campbell almost naturally found each other to give birth to a rich, varied and terribly bewitching Blues Rock. Navigating…

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Q&A WITH AWARD WINNERS STARLITE CAMPBELL BAND

Interview by Michael Limnios of Blues Greece.

British award-winners Starlite Campbell Band Starlite release exciting third album 'Starlite Campbell Band - Live'. Flying in the face of disposable music and keeping the roots of rock music alive, award-winning Starlite Campbell…

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ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND

Interview by Graham Munn for Blues in Britain

“Curiouser and curiouser!” cried Alice in the second chapter of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, written in 1865. It’s a musing that Graham Munn could well have uttered ahead of his…

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STARLITE CAMPBELL BAND: TRUE LOVE RULES

Interview by Marijn Ooijman for de Blueskrant [translated from Dutch by DeepL]

He is an accomplished musician and music producer who worked with Big Jim Sullivan and Derek Lawrence at Island Records in the 1990s. She was once the 'fastest…

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VALENCIA MUSIC... ‘STARLITE CAMPBELL BAND’ (NEW ALBUM AND NEW TOUR!)

Report by Rhianydd Sword, 24/7 Valencia

Starlite Campbell Band’s latest album has just been released and is called ‘The Language of Curiosity’, which is the second LP by the husband and wife duo. They were based in Valencia for a…

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MODERN DAY STORYTELLERS: STARLITE CAMPBELL BAND

Cristina da Costa Brookes, in Music ​​​​​- PORTUGAL NEWS

With a new album on the horizon and touring back on the cards, Starlite Campbell are looking forward to a bright future. 

I had the pleasure of speaking to the extremely…

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De Blueskrant - Netherlands

Derek Trucks of the Tedeschi Trucks Band with a copy of Blues Matters Magazine, UK featuring Starlite Campbell Band on the front cover plus a four-page interview article

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DOWNLOADS

Blues in Britain: Interview - November 2021 481 KB
De Blueskrant: 25th edition - November 2021 3.41 MB
Blues in the South: Interview - September 2021 771 KB
Rock 'N' Reel Magazine: November 2021 1.11 MB
Classic Rock Magazine: October 2021 3.19 MB
Metronome Magazine: December 2021 4.6 MB
Fireworks Magazine: December 2021 123 KB

SESSION MUSICIANS

HUGO DANIN

Drums | percussion

Hugo Danin is one of the finest drummers in Portugal. 

He has studied under some of the worlds greatest greatest players in both Spain and New York.

In 2001 he founded the school and creative centre, Atelier de Percussão and has written two drum books: 'Criatividade Ritmica' and 'The Drumming Track Concept'.

Hugo is very busy as a teacher and live/studio musician, performing with many of  Portugal’s top artists, such as Mariza and Pedro Abrunhosa.

He is an endorsee of Sonor drums and Sabian Cymbals.

STEVE GIBSON

Drums

Having been signed to both Polydor and A&M Records, Steve is a fantastic musician who has worked with many great artists and has literally toured the world with the likes of Maggie Bell, Van Morrison, Jack Bruce, the Icicle Works,  Madeleine Bell, Buzzcocks and more recently with Larry Garner, The Norman Beaker Band and Chris Farlowe

He has known Simon for thirty years and is both a Paiste and Sakae drums endorsee.

JONNY HENDERSON

Hammond Organ | Piano | Clavinet

Jonny is a massively respected Hammond Organ player who works tirelessly on the live circuit worldwide and has toured with Robben Ford, Matt Schofield and Otis Rush

He was voted Keyboard Player of the Year in both the 2010 and 2011 British Blues Awards

In 2009 he released an instrumental funk/jazz album under his own name, entitled 'Where Did I Leave My Keys?'

Jonny has featured on all the Starlite Campbell Band's recordings to date

Christian Madden at the Carlisle Rock and Blues Festival with the Starlite Campbell Band

CHRISTIAN MADDEN

Hammond Organ | Piano | Clavinet

Christian has known Simon for many years and played on both of his solo albums, ThirtySix (2011) and The Knife (2015) 

He was the co-founder of 'The Earlies' which found both critical and commercial success in 2005-2008 and now is a full time member of The Liam Gallagher Band

He features on The Language of Curiosity and 'Starlite Campbell Band Live!' albums 

He says he loves touring and playing with the band and we believe him...

JOSH PHILLIPS

Hammond Organ | Piano | Clavinet

Josh began his career age sixteen playing organ on the soundtrack to Quadrophenia and he later was the keyboardist for British heavy rockers Diamond Head and has written for and/or performed with a wide range of musicians, including Big Country, Leo Sayer, Pete Townshend, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Kenney Jones, Ronan Keating, Alisha’s Attic, Midge Ure, Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney and most recently Mike Rutherford, Judie Tzuke, Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart with Ron Wood

He is currently a full member of Procol Harum and has also toured with the Starlite Campbell Band

GABRIELE DEL VECCHIO

Hammond Organ | Piano | Clavinet

Born in Naples, Gabriele began playing piano at age ten going on to study at Asociación Napolitana de Jazz with Mario Insegna. In 2003 he formed ‘Sunset in Blue’ and recorded the critically acclaimed album ‘Faced to the Sun’ playing most major Italian blues festivals

In 2005, Gabriele moved to Valencia and played with  Trapobana, Los Fabulosos Blueshakers, Relevo de Plata, Tonky de la Peña then becoming a member 'Los Perros del Boogie' who supported AC/DC on the Spanish leg of their world tour

He features on 'The Language of Curiosity' and also plays regularly with the band live


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Suzy Starlite, Jez Levy and Simon Campbell at Eyes on St Albans

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