Suzy Starlite

It's an absolute honour to be featured in this month’s ‘Wonder Women’ series in 'No Treble' online magazine in the USA.

It’s the second time I’ve had to really dig deep about my life, music and the bass for a…

If ever I’m asked for any words of advice when it comes to starting a new job, a new course or in fact anything new, I aspire to live by this simple mantra: be authentic, be yourself and… be curious.

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Hello, I’m Suzy Starlite - custodian of the groove, storyteller and full-time musician with the Starlite Campbell Band. 

Music is my language… 

I love gigs - they are the way we can all hang out together.

I love festivals -…

Supertone artist and bass player Suzy Starlite is featured with a two page in-depth interview article in the September edition of Bass Guitar Magazine - the UK"s number one printed bass guitar magazine.

Starlite effused "I was totally shocked when…

I’m thrilled and totally stoked to be featured in the September edition of Bass Guitar Magazine with a front page name check and in-depth interview article inside.

I had fun chatting about our forthcoming Starlite Campbell Band’s headline gig at…

Totally bowled over to be a part of the wonderful Lehle family of musicians!

Most of my tone comes from the Mike Lull V4 and Gretsch Thunder Jet basses (both fitted with Curt Mangan stainless steel flatwound strings in combination…

I didn’t start out playing bass as my first instrument and the funny thing is, a lot of other bass players didn’t either…

• Lemmy had just joined Hawkwind as a guitar player when he found out he was surplus to…

Lemon is great for killing parasites in chicken, a zesty addition to a large vodka and tonic and also apparently an age-old tradition in the playfulness of sexual innuendo in Blues music: way back in 1929, Joe Williams was singing…

“If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” Isaac Newton, 1676

A lot of music leaves me feeling detached and unengaged because, putting it simply, it doesn’t make me feel anything. Sometimes…

The hardest part about playing a new instrument is trying to work out what direction to go in and really where to start.

When I decided to play the bass guitar this problem was promptly taken away from me as…

On the second day of thinking about the music that has inspired me, having started with the first gig I ever saw, (Stevie Wonder at the NEC in Birmingham) it naturally drew me back a little further to my…

The giant Apple, it doth appear, wants to help choose the music we hear.

Through tales of broken hearted girls and women bereft of intelligence pills,

The Prince will come and save the day – Be SAFE and shop the…

The other day I was nominated by my friend Nick to take part in the ‘Seven Days of Music that has inspired…’ challenge that has gone viral on some social media sites.

I’m not usually into that kind of thing…

In celebration of National Poetry Day, here is a short poem written a few months ago…

Luxury…

Performed by Simon Campbell on location at Supertone Records, Spain.

First times are always a whirlwind mixture of excitement and a certain amount of nervous energy mixed in to create that fizzy pop feeling when you are in unchartered territory…

I’m used to performing live in a wide variety of…

I have vivid memories of growing up in Herefordshire with its patchwork quilt of rolling fields and slumbering hills.

A land scattered with farms and endless hedgerows…and cows leaning over the fence and munching the tulips from our garden.

My…

Music has always been an important part of my life. I can’t say why – it just calls me, if that makes any sense at all.

As a young child, whenever I saw a piano I was always drawn to…

In the weeks building up to my impending marriage to Simon, my wonderful new husband, I started thinking about Margaret, my Mum.

I haven’t seen or laughed with her for over sixteen years (and more) as she developed the…

When I moved to France a year ago with my new partner Simon, he brought with him the mighty hairy princess, Hummock Campbell

We loved our new life together in the French countryside surrounded by vineyards and oceans of…