Simon Laffy (born 11 October 1958) is an English

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and

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, a member of

Man Raze Man Raze are an English three-piece alternative rock band originally from Finchley, London, England formed in 2004, featuring Phil Collen, Simon Laffy and Paul Cook. History Man Raze played a sold-out show at the Spitz club near Old Spitalf ...

and former member of

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Career

Simon Laffy was born at home in

Hoxton Hoxton is an area in the London Borough of Hackney, England. It was Historic counties of England, historically in the county of Middlesex until 1889. Hoxton lies north-east of the City of London, is considered to be a part of London's East End ...

, London. He started playing music at fourteen years old, inspired by his musician brother, Steve. He joined his first band at fifteen and was playing in London clubs (

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, The Embassy, Maunkberrys) before being legally old enough to be in them. Simon signed his first record deal with glam rock band

at twenty one years old and toured Europe, the Far East and the UK. Subsequently, he has played at most venues in Britain, including

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Hammersmith Odeon The Hammersmith Apollo, currently called the Eventim Apollo for sponsorship reasons, and formerly and still commonly known as the Hammersmith Odeon, is a live entertainment performance venue, originally built as a cinema called the Gaumont Pa ...

, the

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and at the

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and Phoenix Festivals. His music career included working as a producer, composer, arranger, performer, engineer, programmer, live mixer and DJ. He has played on fifteen albums and eighteen singles, as well as performing on countless studio sessions, TV appearances and radio broadcasts, interviews, photo sessions and approximately two thousand gigs. In 2004, Simon formed a rock band,

, with his former Girl bandmate

Phil Collen Philip Kenneth Collen (born 8 December 1957) is an English musician who is best known as the co-lead guitarist for the rock band Def Leppard. Collen joined the band in 1982 during the recording of the ''Pyromania'' album. Before joining Def Le ...

from

Def Leppard Def Leppard are an English Rock music, rock band formed in Sheffield in 1977. Since 1992, the band has consisted of Rick Savage (bass, backing vocals), Joe Elliott (lead vocals), Rick Allen (drummer), Rick Allen (drums), Phil Collen (guitar, ...

and

Paul Cook Paul Thomas Cook (born 20 July 1956) is an English musician, best known as the drummer and a founding member of the punk rock band the Sex Pistols. He is nicknamed "Cookie" by friends in the punk music scene. Early life and career Cook was ...

from the

Sex Pistols The Sex Pistols are an English punk rock band formed in London in 1975. Although their initial career lasted just two and a half years, they became culturally influential in popular music. The band initiated the punk movement in the United Ki ...

and began a dance album project called Pearl Avenue with Joel Parkes, the Canadian singer/songwriter.

also formed their own record company, Surrealist Records. Simon Laffy began a writing career in 2010 and has published three historical fiction novels, titled ''Seed of Satan'', ''Red Sunrise'' and ''Fire of the Sun'', on the ACM Retro Ltd imprint. Simon Laffy is the brother of

Gerry Laffy Gerry Laffy (born 4 January 1960) is a British singer and guitarist who has played in the bands Girl (band), Girl, The London Cowboys, Sheer Greed (band), Sheer Greed, John Taylor (bass guitarist)#1997-2001: Solo career, John Taylor, and Ultr ...

References

External links

Simon Laffy's official webpage
{{DEFAULTSORT:Laffy, Simon English bass guitarists English male bass guitarists English novelists English male novelists 1958 births Living people Girl (band) members Man Raze members Sheer Greed members People from Hoxton People from Finchley Musicians from the London Borough of Barnet Musicians from the London Borough of Hackney