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THE BiTS INTERVIEW: Bex Marshall



    Bex Marshall grew up in Devon, and started playing guitar at 11.  When
    she was 18, she began work on cruise liners and in poker dens in the
    Netherlands, before moving to Australia.

    She later cited her extensive travelling as inspiration for songwriting.
    She began playing live in the 12 Bar Club in London in the early 2000s.


    In 2013, she won the Best British Blues Vocalist poll at the UK Blues
    Awards. In 2014, she began touring Russia for the first time


    She has just completed a tour in the USA. Ian McKenzie spoke to her on

    the telephone at a gig venue in the Isle of Wight.



     BiTS:  Hi Bex, Thanks for talking to me. Let me tell you what I want to do. I want to
     talk  to  you  about  your  background,  first  of  all,  and  then  about  the  upcoming

                                     period   of time. See what you're going to be up to in the
                                          next year or so.

                                              BM:  Okay, cool.


                                                 BiTS:  Let’s start at the beginning. Tell me, how did
                                                 you get into blues music in the first place?

                                                                                                      BM:  Well,

                                                                                                      I     really
                                                                                                    didn't  sort
                                                                                                 of  plan  it  like

                                                                                        that,  but  my  uncle
                                                                            had       a    fantastic       album
                                                                      collection which he allowed me to

                                                                    listen  to  when  I  was  in  my  early
                                                                    days, sort of 10/11 years old, and I
                                                                    just  kind  of  soaked  it  all  up  and

                                                                   naturally  gravitated  towards  the
                                                               rootsy side of blues.

                                                      BiTS:  What kind of artists were you listening

                                                 to at that time? What was in his collection?

                                                 BM:  Oh well, I mean, the early stuff was sort of
                                                 everything from Eric Clapton to Stevie Ray Vaughn

                                                 to Howlin’ Wolf, but again, he had a lot of British
                                                 blues in his album collection.
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