Pair achieved ‘only thing’ they ever wanted after meeting in city restaurant

Two Scousers achieved the “only thing” they ever wanted after meeting in a city centre restaurant.

Mick Campbell, a 31 year-old from Anfield, was a dishwasher at a restaurant on Bold Street when he struck up a friendship with co-worker Martha Goddard, a 28 year-old from Aigburth, in 2016. The pair were both disillusioned with their jobs, and discovered they shared a passion for music and song writing.

For Martha, music was a crucial part in her childhood. She said: “I've always preferred creative pursuits in life.

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“When I first started having singing lessons, because I was very shy as a kid, it was a real confidence booster. It's also something that I find quite therapeutic.

“Because of that, because I found it therapeutic, I was like, God, I want to do this forever. It's like the only thing that I've been like, I could do this forever.”

Mick felt similarly, but feared his chance for a career in music could have passed after university. He said: “I think I did it more for the, for the experience because all my mates had already been to university.

“So I thought, well, I'm missing out on an experience, but now I kind of wish that I'd just not done that. It's a lot of money to study something that you already know. I didn't really learn much that I didn't already know from college.”

Making music under the name of Hushtones, the band’s alternative indie music has proved quite popular. Over the last seven years, they have performed across the country from London to the Edinburgh fringe.

A key moment came when, searching for a new guitarist for the band in 2019, Mick stumbled