Mont Campbell is a director of Ovesco, a Sussex-based alternative energy company.
18 Facts About Mont Campbell
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In December 2024 Mont Campbell put his music up for sale on BandCamp.
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Mont Campbell was named after his grandfather, the composer Martin Shaw.
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In 1966, Mont Campbell attended the City of London Boys School.
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Mont Campbell played bass guitar in the group and was its main composer, citing Igor Stravinsky as his main influence.
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The album was bolstered by two Mont Campbell-composed wind quartets.
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Mont Campbell left the band in June 1976 after a UK tour, a radio session for the BBC and a "disastrous" performance at a one-off French festival.
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Mont Campbell recorded an tape of other compositions, called Individual Extracts.
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In 1983, Mont Campbell developed an overwhelming interest in world music and spent most of the next decade-and-a-half mastering a wide variety of wind instruments, harps and lutes from diverse cultures around the world.
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Mont Campbell has enjoyed a run of cinema collaborations with his 1970s creative partner David Anderson, including Dreamland Express, In the Time of Angels and Deutsche Post.
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Mont Campbell released his first solo album, Music from a Round Tower in 1996.
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Mont Campbell has gone on to record as half of The World Wind Band and currently plays and composes as part of the "non-European folk" band Kalamus, which he has described as "mostly flute and bagpipe music with percussion" and which released their first album Bronze in 2011.
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In January 2009 Mont Campbell appeared on British television in the BBC documentary Prog Rock Britannia: An Observation in Three Movements, reminiscing about Egg and the progressive rock movement in general.
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Mont Campbell is a member of Extinction Rebellion and protested against fascism at the National Conservatism Conference.
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Mont Campbell is an occasional singer and, on his solo albums, has worked with digital age music technology.
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Mont Campbell pursues parallel work as an environmentalist and alternative energy specialist.
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Mont Campbell is a founding director of the Ouse Valley Energy Services Company, which began its work by initiating a solar power station in Campbell's current hometown of Lewes and has since expanded to cover further sustainable energy projects in the Ouse Valley region.
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Mont Campbell has one son and six daughters, one of whom, Anna Mont Campbell, was killed in 2018 fighting for the Kurdish Women's Protection Units in Syria.